BACLS

Deadline extended to 13 June! Send us your brilliant work please! 📝📚

wordcloud of author names, with the biggest being Ali Smith, David Mitchell, Margaret Atwood and Don DeLillo

doing a retrospective on @c21literature.bsky.social at our @bacls.bsky.social roundtable this week so i thought i’d party like it’s 2009 and make a wordcloud of the journal’s most frequently discussed authors

If you’re at the @bacls.bsky.social conference this week, stop by the @scotunipress.bsky.social stand to find out more about institutional Open Access publishing, and to chat about publishing with SUP

Off to the @bacls.bsky.social conference in Stirling. Looking forward to this one, programme looks good, lots of folks to catch up with & new research to hear about.

En route to Stirling for @bacls.bsky.social! I am making some final tweaks to my paper, but, more than anything, am greatly looking forward discussing all things contemporary lit over the next few days.

Really looking forward to speaking on the opening panel for @bacls.bsky.social later, along with @alicebennett.bsky.social @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social and Andy Perluzzo. We'll all be talking about various issues of writing and professionalism!

Range of steep hills in the distance across a flat grassy plain

Heading north for the @bacls.bsky.social conference - very excited for this one! I’ll be giving a paper on Alan Hollinghurst’s recent work later in the week.

Please do stop by the SUP stall at the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) conference @bacls.bsky.social at the University of Stirling.

Our Commissioning Editor, @paulmclarke.bsky.social, will be delighted to talk to you about publishing your next book #OpenAccess! 👋

Contemporary Literary Studies, Reading list 2025 - Manchester University Press Welcome to our Contemporary Literary Studies Reading List, a curated selection of new and bestselling titles from MUP. From critical insights into Geoffrey Hill’s poetry, to a survey of contemporary a...

We're at the @bacls.bsky.social conference this week

Visit the MUP stand to
📚 Chat with @mlhouston.bsky.social about a new proposal
📚 Explore our #ContemporaryLiterature titles
📚 Discover new #Literature series

Not attending? Browse our reading list,
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/06...

On platform 12 Edinburgh Waverley station with sun streaming in through roof windows. Board announcing train to Dunblane. Stirling is penultimate station.

Pint of Robert the Juice.

Moved to to Stirling for the @bacls.bsky.social What Happens Now 2025 Conference. I'm talking about Ken MacLeod on Thursday. Beautiful campus but the only photo I have taken so far is this pint of Robert the Juice.

Refugee Lit Stakes Its Worthy Claim - JSTOR Daily Peter Sloane’s new study examines the narratives put forth by asylum seekers striving to reclaim their stories from mainstream media and political discourse.

In this @jstordaily.bsky.social interview, Peter Sloane discusses his new book "From Rupture to Refuge" (published by @livunipress.bsky.social), which examines contemporary refugee narratives. The book is part of JSTOR’s Path to Open program.

Read and explore a free chapter: bit.ly/43E2Ro2

The abstract for Dr Ashley's article: 'Many neurodivergent people are also trans, and lived‐experience narratives, creative practices, and research outputs have storied this intersection in powerful and capacious ways. Yet, in the face of increased antitrans hostility across the globe that relies on the mobilization of incoherent pseudologics, neurodivergent and trans persons are mutually imbricated, and in violent ways. This essay invites coalition among trans studies, critical neurodiversity studies, disability justice, and the literary health humanities to consider the effects of these violences and to think through the possibilities of choreographing shared potentials through nonnormative cocreation.'

A new article by our own Dr Abs S. Ashley has been published in a special issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly ('Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory'): 'Neurotrans Affect: Choreography, Cocreation, and Coalitional Resistance'! @ainokash.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article-...

Deadline extended to 13 June! Send us your brilliant work please! 📝📚

Deadline extended to 13 June!

We are particularly looking for nominations for the positions of Chair, Vice-Chair, and Publicity Officer.

If you have questions about Chair / Vice-Chair, get in touch with @tedilta.bsky.social; for publicity officer @juliaditter.bsky.social can answer your questions.

a supermarket freezer containing a number of items, including a box of “mini-bakkels”

had a conversation with @melissaschuh.bsky.social years ago about how BACLS (@bacls.bsky.social) sounded like a bakery item and i have finally found out what that is (a sort of profiterole or little choux bun, i think)

Come join our Executive Committee by nominating yourself by 23rd May 2025!

We are looking to fill the following positions:

Chair
Vice Chair
Treasurer
Membership Secretary
Web Administrator
Publicity Officer
3 Graduate Student Reps
1 Ordinary Member

Details:
bacls.org/site/site/me...

🏆📚 The BACLS Monograph Prize, Edited Collection Prize and Postgraduate Essay Prize are now open for submission!

Entries are invited for work published in 2024 in the English language on any area of ‘contemporary literary studies’.

Deadline: 23 May

More details: bacls.org/site/prizes/...

Looking forward to talk about my research on Scottish literature, environmental methodologies, borders and literary form at the Scot Hub next week! 📚⛰️🐔🌊

Come and join us at the BACLS-WHN biennial conference next month!

BACLS WHN 2025: Conference Registration now open!

The registration for the BACLS “What Happens Now?” Conference taking place 10th June – 12th June 2025 at Stirling University is now open. Please register via this link:
shop.stir.ac.uk/conferences-...

🏆📚 The BACLS Monograph Prize, Edited Collection Prize and Postgraduate Essay Prize are now open for submission!

Entries are invited for work published in 2024 in the English language on any area of ‘contemporary literary studies’.

Deadline: 23 May

More details: bacls.org/site/prizes/...

If you have any questions about the roles, don't hesitate to get in touch with the current exec team!

@tedilta.bsky.social @juliaditter.bsky.social @wtunska.bsky.social

Come join our Executive Committee by nominating yourself by 23rd May 2025!

We are looking to fill the following positions:

Chair
Vice Chair
Treasurer
Membership Secretary
Web Administrator
Publicity Officer
3 Graduate Student Reps
1 Ordinary Member

Details:
bacls.org/site/site/me...

With our new website, official membership registration is now open at the following rates:

Benefits: attend the yearly conference, submit your work for the yearly monograph, postgraduate essay and edited collection prizes, receive monthly newsletters and more!

Sign up here: bacls.org/site/join/

📢Our new website is finally live!

Visit us at www.bacls.org to:
* sign up for membership
* apply for the 2025 BACLS Prizes
* nominate yourself to become part of the BACLS Executive Committee

and much more!

'The Black Country' is a painting by by H. Warren from 1869. It depicts a black-and-white industrial landscape dominated by chimneys that emit black smoke and fires in the background. A few small figures can be seen amidst the smoke.

CFP: Victorian Infrastructures and their Environmental Legacies

Irmtraud Huber and I are looking for submissions to our special collection to be published with @openlibhums.bsky.social

Abstracts due 31 October, full texts due 31 March '26.

Find the full CFP here: shorturl.at/OvPc4

Still plenty of time to apply!

Editorship of <em>C21 Literature</em> C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings is the journal of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS). The journal is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publica...

📣 🚨 C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings / @c21literature.bsky.social seeks a new editor! Join a leading journal in 21st-century #LiteraryStudies. Term starts May 2025.

📅 Deadline: 22 April 2025.
More info: c21.openlibhums.org/news/793/
#C21Literature @bacls.bsky.social

Editorship of <em>C21 Literature</em> C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings is the journal of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS). The journal is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publica...

📢Exciting opportunity: @c21literature.bsky.social is seeking a new editor for a three-year term, to start on 19th May 2025

C21, the journal of BACLS, is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publication & circulation of 21C writings.

More details on the role: c21.openlibhums.org/news/793/

The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland, is now on Bluesky. Please sign up for the latest ASLE-UKI news. As always, you can also find us, and join us, on our website at www.asle.org.uk. See you soon!