Thank you to everyone who came along this evening! It was really inspiring & encouraging! And a huge thank you to Kristen for facilitating 🙏🏻💖

Thanks to all the @guildmedmak.bsky.social members who joined us tonight for plotting, planning, and puzzling through the year ahead! It was so inspiring to hear all of your developing ideas and I cannot wait to see what comes next!

Later today we'll be running our New Year's Intention Setting session. @hellomizk.bsky.social will guide us through thinking about our creative intentions for the year and how we might go about achieving them. Come for support, encouragement, and inspiration!

Really excited to be a part of this with my @guildmedmak.bsky.social buddy & superstar cartoonist @hellomizk.bsky.social ✨💖 and many other Guild members!

Many are returning to their laptops today, but we have a candle to hold up in the dark and cold! Join us this Thursday for our special Making Space Session: Creative Intention Setting for 2026. 🕯️ Bring yourself, any creative materials you fancy, and your favourite mug of something warm.

New beginnings can be exciting, but also a little daunting. To help ease into your creative-critical mindset of 2026, we warmly welcome you to join us for a special Making Space Session: Creative Intention Setting for 2026! ⏰5:30-7:00pm GMT 📅Thurs, 8th Jan 2026 📍Zoom

An exciting symposium featuring many of our Guild members is taking place early next year!👇 🖋️'Creative Medievalisms Now: Writing the Middle Ages Today and Tomorrow' 📍Faculty of English, University of Cambridge 📅Thurs 15th Jan- Fri 16th Jan, 2026

As we come towards the close of the year we at the Guild of Medievalist Makers wanted to share our 'Year in Review: 2025', written by Guild co-founder @hellomizk.bsky.social. Thank you to all of the Guild members who have made 2025 an excellent inaugural year🎉

The Centre for Public Engagement Practice in Arts and Humanities is inviting academic researchers in the arts, humanities & social sciences to collaborate with community groups as part of a new community-led grant. The pilot will run from January to May 2026. Info here: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

manuscripting it 👍

Interested in connections between #history & #CreativeWriting / #poetry? @ihr.bsky.social is seeking a Creative Practitioner in Residence for 2026. £1000 monthly stipend, opportunities for collaboration & developing projects. Happy to have a chat! Please share: www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

Where is medievalism (at)? Here is a call for papers for all the medievalists of Bluesky (and elsewhere)! Deadline: February 15. Papers are expected in English, Spanish and French. We'd love to hear from you! #medievalsky www.fabula.org/actualites/1...

'What are we looking for when we pick up a “reimagined classic” or a “bold and subversive retelling” of a centuries-old tale?' Our latest Meet a Medievalist Maker post is by @sarafredman.bsky.social, author of 'Griselda is Dead, and Also Her Patience', a reimagining of Chaucer’s 'Clerk's Tale'👇

Members of @guildmedmak.bsky.social should check out the cfp for CREATING THE MEDIEVAL NOW, a special issue of the journal 'Public Humanities', co-edited by yours truly & Eleanor Barraclough (with amazing artwork by our very own @hellomizk.bsky.social)

Attention creative medievalists! Eleanor Barraclough & I are co-editing a special issue of Public Humanities entitled CREATING THE MEDIEVAL NOW! See the cfp for details: essays of 2,000-3,000 words due 1 May 2026. (Amazing artwork by @hellomizk.bsky.social). 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Booking is now open for Making Medieval Manuscripts! A practice-based course where we make ink, cut quills, illuminate, make pigments and bookbind, using #medieval techniques and materials. We also explore early medieval art. No experience necessary! #bookhistory ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

It’s that time of year again. Advent and waiting for the light to return. So I thought I’d post an image of my work a day until the solstice. Here’s The Green Knight, a panel I made in 2022 but it’s a subject that has entranced since I first studied the poem at Stirling University in the 1980s.

A brilliant Making Space session this evening with @guildmedmak.bsky.social. The owl I've been working on certainly looks "medieval".

Great “Making Space” session with @guildmedmak.bsky.social tonight! Started playing with character design for Chaucer’s Goddess Fame…

After only eight months of existence, we are delighted to announce that the Guild of Medievalist Makers has gained its ✨100th Guild Member✨! We have lots of exciting plans for the development of the Guild, but in the meantime, why not join us for tomorrow's Making Space session?🍻

Publication day! The Routledge Handbook of Heritage & Creative Practice is out today and it includes my piece on creative responses to the mass removal of love-locks along with some amazing pieces by some brilliant people www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Looks like I’m gonna be very busy at #IMC2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social We’ve got comics, dragons, and Old Norse galore! #medievalsky #comics

The summer seems a long way away now, but very much looking forward to presenting a creative-critical paper titled 'The Phoenix Speaks: An Eco-Creative Response to an Old English Allegory' at the Leeds IMC (@imc-leeds.bsky.social) next year #IMC2026

Chaucer in the Age of Medievalism needs you! In the wake of our conference, we are now preparing a collective volume and seeking additional chapters to complement the proceedings. Please share widely! #medievalsky modmed.hypotheses.org/8517

You may have noticed that I talk A LOT abt creative methods in my teaching. Well I’ve explained in this piece why it’s important for student learning& wellbeing as well as being fun. I use this as opportunity to define creativity & how we are creative teachers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

On Tuesday 2nd of December we are holding our final Making Space session of the calendar year! Join us 5:30-7:00pm (GMT) to work on YOUR creative-critical project, or flex your creative-critical faculties and respond to our optional theme: festivities🎊🍺🥳

'I crumbed together my research into North Sea fish species, North Atlantic trade, and late-medieval environmental crisis around the medieval North Sea basin with my embodied experience of walking in the fens south of Grimsby.' Our latest MMM blog post by poet Becca Drake is out now! 👇

Catherine & I had a lot of fun running this workshop on Creativity in the Classroom at the ‘Chaucer our Contemporary’ colloquium last month. Check out the blogpost for suggestions of activities from a wordhoard task to re-voicing the tales, and @hellomizk.bsky.social’s six-word adaptation comic!

'The provisionality and dynamism of play enables creative thinking and dispenses with fears of failure'. Read our new blogpost discussing the 'Creativity in the Classroom' workshop run by @drlauravarnam.bsky.social and @cathamclarke.bsky.social at the 'Chaucer our Contemporary' event 👇

Our @guildmedmak.bsky.social co-founder @hellomizk.bsky.social smashing it at the weekend!

Þe snawe snitered ful snart þat snayped þe wylde… (The snow fell sharp as sleet that nipped at the wild beasts) SGGK, l.2003 It’s that time of year again when the Gawain-poet’s alliterative mastery of the North-west midlands dialect really comes alive. (Linocut my own - appears in b/w in my book)

Final day of Thought Bubble! Come find me at Comixology C12a and get your comics about Chaucer and academic stuff and Princess Wolf and even grab one of three tiny original matchbox pigeon flocks!

Still time to register for this free online talk tomorrow on making medieval manuscripts #bookhistory #medievalsky

Are you a medieval maker? Or know someone who is? Email [email protected] for a chance to be featured in my holiday gift guide!

So wonderful to see @jonathanfruoco.bsky.social featured on GuMM!!

I wrote a blog post for @guildmedmak.bsky.social!

'Translating Chaucer is a strange and humbling act. It’s like listening through centuries of static to a voice that is both foreign and familiar, comic and solemn, earnest and ironic.' Jonathan Fruoco writes about his experience translating Chaucer for our Meet a Medievalist Maker blogpost series👇

Attention @guildmedmak.bsky.social! Look forward to reading this, Nik!

Interested in adaptation, as a practice? Adaptation Today's upcoming mentorship workshop features composers, performers, and directors who will share their experiences adapting stories to bring familiar narratives to life - join us! Register here: udel.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Our friends over at the @thesowhat.bsky.social are looking for guest editors (individual and team), and are particularly interested in craft medievalism and medieval crafts! Find out more by following the link below 👇

In a slight change to advertised programming, our next Making Space (online co-working session) is taking place on Tuesday 2nd December, 5:30pm-7:00pm! Join us to work convivially on your own project, or get inspired and respond to our optional theme: 🎪festivities🍻

Not one but two Guild members are speaking at Oxford's @blackwells.bsky.social! Join poets Susie Campbell (Wastelands, Guillemot Press, 2025) and @drlauravarnam.bsky.social (Grendel’s Mother Bites Back, Primers 7, 2024) for 'Reweaving the Poem' on Sunday 16th November.

THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH interview! “I Cannot Wait to Really Dig into the Nuts and Bolts of Literary Adaptation” – @hellomizk.bsky.social on Bringing Chaucer to Comics and Moderating the @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social Literary Adaptation Panel. www.brokenfrontier.com/kristen-haas... #ThoughtBubbleatBF25

It was great to write this blog post for the @guildmedmak.bsky.social and to give readers a little glimpse into my creative-critical practice, as my 'ecocreative' translations turn from storms 🌧 and ice ❄ to heat and fire 🔥 via the OE poem on The Phoenix #medievalsky.

As the weather gets colder, warm the cockles of your creative-critical heart by reading our new Meet a Medievalist Maker blog post by @jamespaz.bsky.social, which is filled with fiery reflections on his 'ecocreative' process🔥 Read more by following the link below👇

Friend of the Guild @15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social is offering a series of workshops exploring 'The Fundamentals of Academic Grant Writing', which may be of use to our members looking to make applications in the coming year. You can read more and sign up by following the link below 👇

A very cheering Zoom session with @guildmedmak.bsky.social at which I managed to complete three more #LettersToCromwell from 1529. I now need to log them on the Great Big Spreadsheet.

Productive time sketching at “Making Space” with @guildmedmak.bsky.social !

Looking forward to attending TOEBI in Dublin this weekend and speaking about my creative-critical work!

My newest article is out now (open access) for New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession. It’s in the form of a comic AND includes an adaptation exercise suitable for the uni classroom! I had a fantastic time working on this and hope you enjoy (and share) it! escholarship.org/uc/item/49h4...