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...

I'm excited to speak at this week's instalment of the 'Staging the Middle Ages' project in Cambridge - Fri 24th Oct 5:30pm - reflecting on what I learned from the reading of 'The Conversion of the Harlot Thais' which I hosted last year @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/session-2-...

Loving polymath freedom! Today, published creativity in medieval Arthurian teaching in New Chaucer Studies P&P: escholarship.org/uc/item/8s03... Just after heritage trail storytelling of 17thc letters in 'Adaptation' journal, while sorting book proofs on Lit & Health Humanities. What subject next?

Delighted to see my work 'A Heritage Trail Bio-adaptation of Rebecca Paston's Letters: Presence and Process in Conversation with Renaissance imitatio' published in Adaptation: academic.oup.com/adaptation/a...

This week I'll be submitting the manuscript, with my brilliant co-editor Carl Kears, for our OA volume with UCL Press: 'Beyond Medieval Archives: Rethinking the medieval archive through creative and critical practice'. Still so much work to do before Thursday, but it's exciting!

All Guild members will have received an email with the link to our next Making Space session, with the optional theme of 'hauntings'🦇🕯️🍂 Join us to work on your malevolent medievalisms...bring your terrifying translations, creepy calligraphy, or your illusory illustrations!

The next @guildmedmak.bsky.social Making Space event is this Thursday! Guild members should have the link in their emails now 👻🎃🕯️🍁 Looking forward to seeing fellow makers then!

Homegrown madder pigment. It's wonderful to create medieval pigment from something grown in your garden #bookhistory #medievalpigments #medievalsky

A very maker-medieval few days 😍😍 #makermedieval #medievalistmaker #medievalsky #naturalink #pokeberryink #dropspindle #spinningflax #marigoldflowers #marigoldink @guildmedmak.bsky.social 👀

My buddy’s book is out now! www.arc-humanities.org/978180270096... Fantastic read for my medievalist friends and fellow @guildmedmak.bsky.social mates! E-book available open access!!

Those who teach and research Sir Gawain and the Green Knight will be interested in this fantastic research hub concerned with historic and contemporary creative responses to the late medieval poem. They're also looking for contributors, so do get in contact with @michaeledenart.bsky.social! 👇

Its the start of autumn and what better way to usher in the season than with a new Meet a Medievalist Maker blogpost! We are delighted to introduce @saracharles.bsky.social, author of The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages. Read all about Sara's 'historical remaking' below👇

Our followers might be interested in the upcoming 'Butser Bookfest' at @butserancientfarm.co.uk which includes a creative rendition of the Old Norse Völuspá by Dr Clare Mulley, among other fantastic events and talks from medievalists and creative-critical practitioners!

Hello everyone! Sharing a cfp for the International Medieval Congress at Leeds next summer, organised by Gummies Marie Besson and Brooklyn Arnot. Check it out!

I am particularly excited for the next @guildmedmak.bsky.social Making Space Session. The optional theme is 'hauntings' (physical, spiritual, emotional, generic, critical, fear-inspiring, comforting). Come bearing your favourite spectres.

Looking forward to hosting our October Making Space session! 👻

Here at the Guild we are starting to feel the pull of October's chilly tidings...🕯️🍂 Join us 5:30pm-7:00pm (BST) on October 23rd for our next Making Space Session! The optional theme of this session will be 'hauntings' 👻 Read more on our website here: www.guildmedmak.com/events-1-1

An honour to talk to my creative friends about storytelling and 'behind the scenes' in Yde and Olive. You can read all about it here, see the next performance in Manchester on the 17th September, or catch one of the last venues on my tour: daisyblack.uk/events/

'I researched medieval birthing chambers, read combat manuals, tried on replica armour, and befriended a horse and a hawk.' Meet performance storyteller @daisyeblack.bsky.social in our new Meet A Medievalist Maker blogpost! 👇

Feeling very validated having been accepted into the Guild of Medievalist Makers. @guildmedmak.bsky.social Excited to meet my fellow academic-practitioners and share our niches 👀

SO EXCITED TO SHARE THIS! Announcing the Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize: two juried mini-grants of $250.00 each to support emerging artists l for the creation of a new minicomic that engages with medieval culture. More details available here: www.newberry.org/calendar/new...

Thank you to Ian for this remarkable review of my new book - I'm deeply touched and honoured. I think Ian's response really reflects the magic of #poetry and its power to connect across lives and across #history. Thank you. #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems

Great to see Meg and her work at the @guildmedmak.bsky.social Making Space session last night!

Guild member @siglum.bsky.social often attends our Making Space Sessions to work on his calligraphy and illustration projects. He also produces fantastic videos on his practice and process which are well worth a watch!

We had another excellent Making Space Session yesterday evening, and our biggest ever - we were joined by 15 creative-critical medievalists! Among our Guild we had album artists, website designers, novelists, poets, zine makers, flax spinners, knitters, embroiderers, cartoonists and illustrators 🎨

One of our fantastic Guild members, Krista Sue-Lo Twu, often joins our sessions to spin flax! Her team at @bookofthenorth.bsky.social recently harvested their flax (very fitting for this evening's Making Space Session, whose optional theme was 'harvest'!)

Working on something as part of the Bayeux Tapestry from Scratch Project (booklab.indiana.edu/lab-work/cur...). I’m calling it the B’IU Tapestry 🙃 I’m taking notes—what do you think so far? #medievalsky #bayeuxtapestry #tapisseriedebayeux @guildmedmak.bsky.social

A reminder that our next Making Space Session (a friendly online co-working event) is taking place this Thursday 4th September, 5:30pm-7:00pm BST, hosted by @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social! You're welcome to work on your own creative-critical project, or respond to our optional theme: harvest 🍂🪓🍏🍄

Still (re)composing my first-person translation of The Phoenix in what little time remains of the summer. Thinking with and about fire as a model for creative-critical practice. What can destructive recreation do? How can we remake old poems by burning and breaking them down?

Our next Making Space Session will take place 5:30pm-7:00pm (BST) on Thursday 4th September! While our Medievalist Makers are always welcome to work on their own projects, we'll also be offering an 'optional theme' to encourage ideas and experimentation. 4th Sept optional theme: harvest 🍂🐗🌰🌕🪓