💚 Voters in Redditch, Bolton, Sefton, Newcastle and South Norfolk have elected their first-ever Green councillors today, with more exciting results to come!

#GetGreensElected | #LocalElections2024

Really pleased with my copy of Steve Ely's 'Eely', with thanks to Longbarrow Press - I'm looking forward to diving in.
They have a Bank Holiday offer you might be interested in looking at.

Sometimes you write something that you know is more important than anything else you've ever done. My chapter on Trans Young Adult literature is meant as a possible starting point for young people, but also family, allies, & friends. Put simply - connection, understanding, love.

Submissions close at midnight tonight (IST).

Funded PhD studentship open for applications, supervised by my brilliant colleague Dr Diya Gupta City Int Politics city.ac.uk/prospective-st…

“the fall in the popularity of English among over-16s is seen by many as a consequence of ill-thought-through changes, which imposed a model more suited to science & maths learning on to the quite different disciplines of language & literature…”

Just gonna leave this here as a reminder: this happened. Spot the difference. I'd say something many of us know in our bones about UK publishing, but instead I want to thank the 786 of you who stood up for what is right today.

This time next week I will be discussing 'Renaissance Bodies' on a wonderful panel of scholars Birkbeck, University of London. It's part of a jam-packed Arts Week - you can get free tickets for our panel below, and explore the other fab events too! 🤩
bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_…

📢 #SpecialIssue of #EnglishStudies : A Journal of #EnglishLanguage & #Literature
📜Emotion, Morality, & Exemplarity in #OldEnglish Literature
✍️Introduction by Niamh Kehoe
📲First 50 downloads available for free with the following link: tandfonline.com/eprint/YCMCPM5….
#⃣ #medievaltwitter

TODAY IS THE DAY!!! Let’s make history at the Society of Authors EGM.

As the author Claire Kohda shares 'I’m voting in favour of the ceasefire resolution on May 2nd, in solidarity with the Palestinian people, and encourage all writers, illustrators and translators to do the same.'

💚 Today is the day.

🗳️ Vote Green for fairer, greener communities.

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Really looking forward to talking about Kathleen Collins and the feminist unfinished at the University of Exeter on Wednesday 8 May, hosted by @helenexeter and Exeter Film & Television Studies: cdf.exeter.ac.uk/film/events/wh…. All welcome to attend in-person or online (DM me for the link)!

Such a hateful party. The world is at war, children are being blown apart with British bombs, we’re heading towards climate collapse and no one can afford housing. The NHS is in crisis. There are people experiencing homelessness at record levels. A waste of a political voice.

Two new Oo-press postcards: Lila Matsumoto's incidental-surrealist prosecard *your dangerous shoe* and Jeff Hilson's photo of Bob Cobbing's rewilded photocopier. £7.50 both incl postage. Oo-press.com/postcard-poems

Very pleased to share some initial thoughts on a curious little book I looked at during my recent Folger Shakespeare Library fellowship. It offers a glimpse into the last days and hours of two 17th-century gentlewomen...
folger.edu/blogs/collatio…

Good to see this out in paperback. One for fans of Old English and Anglo-Latin riddles!

What does a book cost?

Back in 2015 we ran some calculations to figure out what a book costs, what it sells for, and where the money goes. We've done the sums again - for 2023 -and you head here for some grim, but hopefully also interesting, reading: galleybeggar.co.uk/what-does-a-bo…