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 🍂🐗🌰🌕🪓

Our last Making Space Session raised a perennial question: what do you do when you get stuck with your creative-critical project? Our Guild members came up with lots of excellent suggestions which you can find compiled in the blog post below👇

We have a new Meet a Medievalist Maker blogpost!🖋️ Meet Mary Flannery (@15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social), the 'accidental medievalist' who writes about the medieval for both scholarly and public audiences:

I'm relaunching my website, Set Yet Speaking, which will host my translations of medieval literature. In this first post, I discuss why I'm giving this another go, why translation matters, and how a short extract from Beowulf inspired the name of the site. nikolasgunn.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/w...

I attended the @guildmedmak.bsky.social group last night and actually got some words down on the page for the first time in a while. It clearly "unstuck" something, because I wrote another thousand words today. Thanks to my inspirational fellow guild members!

Wonderfully thoughtful blog post about “Cartooning the Medieval” from Anne Le, a postdoctoral fellow who joined us at the Newberry in June for the event! sites.nd.edu/manuscript-s...

Fantastically productive time with the @guildmedmak.bsky.social group tonight! I was playing with character design for a new short comic. Strange creatures abound!

Our fourth Making Space Session was joined by medievalist flax spinners, biography writers, embroiderers, zine makers, prose and verse writers, and calligraphers! We also had an excellent conversation about working through creative blocks, which will be developed into a blog post soon!

There's just an hour to go until our Making Space Session. Grab your materials, get ready to put the kettle on, and join us for 90 minutes of relaxed co-working and process sharing!

Hope to see my GuMMy buddies later today - I’m hosting!

Sadly I can’t make this week’s session, but if you want a friendly, welcoming space to work on your creative project, then I heartily recommend signing up to join the other GuMMies.

Our next Making Space Session is taking place this Thursday! Join us for a relaxed online co-working session from 17:30-19:00 BST. It's the perfect opportunity to push that creative-critical piece forward, play around with a new idea, or simply bask in the creative glow and practice your craft.

Now come on - you know you want to do this! Spend a day preparing vellum, using real gold leaf and paint an animal from a bestiary as in mediaeval manuscripts. Places go very quickly so make sure you grab yours. Link below. @bl_events events.bl.uk/events/illum....

We are very grateful to @oxmedstud.bsky.social for awarding us an OMS Small Grant! You can read about how it helped our online and in-person presence in this blog post for the OMS website 👉

✨It was an absolute pleasure to write this blogpost about my zine making & the workshops I facilitate. ✨ ✨Within this post are many acts of kindness, collegial support & feminist communities of care. Some spoken & others unspoken (due to word limits💜), but I am grateful for each & every one. ✨

We have a brand new Meet a Medievalist Maker blog post on our website! We are delighted to introduce @pilgrimteresa.bsky.social who writes about her creative-critical zine making, its interaction with her embodied research, and running workshops founded in activism and advocacy.

Delighted to share @pilgrimteresa.bsky.social's Meet a Medievalist Maker post on @guildmedmak.bsky.social! Teresa makes the most amazing zines as part of her creative-critical practice. Find out more abt her zine exhibition, workshops, & how to make a zine here: www.guildmedmak.com/blog/meet-a-...

New calligraphy video is up! "His Eye is on the Sparrow," in gouache paint and calligraphy based on Turin L.ii.14: youtu.be/FtCUFgHlSxY?...

I was delighted to be invited to contribute one of my #Beowulf poems to the colloquium and to write up my presentation. ‘Against Misdirection’ is a response to Hrothgar’s hostile description of the path to Grendel’s Mother’s Mere creativecritical.net/against-misd...

Summer is packed with conferences, research, and teaching prep...but how about taking some time for your own creative criticality? Our next Making Space Session is taking place on Thursday 7th August 5:30pm-7:00pm (BST). Make sure you've joined the Guild to receive a link!

Really recommend Kristen’s new autobio comic about the process of writing her dissertation on Chaucer! @guildmedmak.bsky.social friends in particular should check it out!

I’m in the foyer of the union building with all my manuscript materials on display. Come and have a go at illuminating or writing with a quill #IMC2025 #medievalscriptorium @ies-sas.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social

anyway, in the wise words of @prisonculture.bsky.social :

I'll be demonstrating manuscript processes at the craft fair at @imc-leeds.bsky.social on Thursday - ink, illumination and pigment. I'll have all my materials on display so come along and see what's involved! #medievalscriptorium

The lovely @drlauravarnam.bsky.social coordinating with her PowerPoint at @medievalgender.bsky.social and talking about using creative criticism as care for The Book of Margery Kempe

I am Co-presenting a paper which will hopefully be of interest! Check out: Making the Medium Work: Helmsley Castle, Rievaulx Abbey, and Stories from Below @ International Medieval Congress 2025 imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2025/mee...

Looking forward to the Leeds IMC next week! I'll be presenting a creative-critical paper in one of the medieval ecocriticisms panels... #IMC2025 @imc-leeds.bsky.social

Are you speaking at @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2025 on a creative-critical project, or on a subject adjacent to the interests of the Guild? Tag us and we'll re-post your session information to help other critical creatives find you! #medievalsky #LeedsIMC2025 #IMC2025

This might also be a good opportunity to share my poem 'Medieval Mystic Margery Kempe in Tesco', published last year in The London Magazine (thank you!). It has a flavour of the medieval/modern mash-up that I enjoy! #gms2025 #teammargery thelondonmagazine.org/poetry-medie...

We also had a fantastic Public Chaucers plenary with @euanroger.bsky.social @15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social & Caroline Bergvall at @themamoconf.bsky.social yesterday! (Thanks for the shoutout for @guildmedmak.bsky.social 😘)

A fantastic 2nd day at @themamoconf.bsky.social 🎉 Gorgeous performance of Yde & Olive by @daisyeblack.bsky.social. I really enjoyed @danielsawyer.bsky.social paper- buy his excellent book! Fantastic energising workshop wi @menysnoweballes.bsky.social & I enjoyed repping @guildmedmak.bsky.social

I’ve had a great first day at @themamoconf.bsky.social conference, repping @guildmedmak.bsky.social at our stall in the Council Room and hearing some great papers! Excited for tomorrow! #mamo2025