Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing
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Book news from the Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing team in London and New York - formerly Continuum Literary Studies!
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Featuring Ray Bradbury, Alice Walker, and more, 'Talking to Writers' is out now and 30% off in our holiday sale!
📗 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Fiction - bit.ly/47cWlI1
📘 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Nonfiction - bit.ly/4nng0tL
📗 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Fiction - bit.ly/47cWlI1
📘 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Nonfiction - bit.ly/4nng0tL
November 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Featuring Ray Bradbury, Alice Walker, and more, 'Talking to Writers' is out now and 30% off in our holiday sale!
📗 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Fiction - bit.ly/47cWlI1
📘 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Nonfiction - bit.ly/4nng0tL
📗 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Fiction - bit.ly/47cWlI1
📘 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Nonfiction - bit.ly/4nng0tL
New from author Hee-seung Irene Lee 📚
Explore how film adaptation intersects with reality in her latest #OpenAccess article and dive deeper with the new OA book 'Film Adaptation and the Real'
📓Read the article: https://bit.ly/3K1cEyN
📙Read the book: https://bit.ly/4qXNB0i
Explore how film adaptation intersects with reality in her latest #OpenAccess article and dive deeper with the new OA book 'Film Adaptation and the Real'
📓Read the article: https://bit.ly/3K1cEyN
📙Read the book: https://bit.ly/4qXNB0i
Adapting not-yet queerness towards a utopian future: Fingersmith to the Handmaiden
Sarah Waters’s neo-Victorian novel Fingersmith (2002) and Park Chan-wook’s transnational adaptation The Handmaiden (2016) explore how lesbian protagonists navigate, resist, and reconfigure oppressi...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
New from author Hee-seung Irene Lee 📚
Explore how film adaptation intersects with reality in her latest #OpenAccess article and dive deeper with the new OA book 'Film Adaptation and the Real'
📓Read the article: https://bit.ly/3K1cEyN
📙Read the book: https://bit.ly/4qXNB0i
Explore how film adaptation intersects with reality in her latest #OpenAccess article and dive deeper with the new OA book 'Film Adaptation and the Real'
📓Read the article: https://bit.ly/3K1cEyN
📙Read the book: https://bit.ly/4qXNB0i
Available #openaccess: 'Speculative Mimesis in Fantasy Literature'
As 21st-century reality grows more pluralistic and interpretive, this book shows how #fantasyliterature uniquely engages with its fluidity and complexity.
🔓 https://bit.ly/49hLEW2
As 21st-century reality grows more pluralistic and interpretive, this book shows how #fantasyliterature uniquely engages with its fluidity and complexity.
🔓 https://bit.ly/49hLEW2
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Available #openaccess: 'Speculative Mimesis in Fantasy Literature'
As 21st-century reality grows more pluralistic and interpretive, this book shows how #fantasyliterature uniquely engages with its fluidity and complexity.
🔓 https://bit.ly/49hLEW2
As 21st-century reality grows more pluralistic and interpretive, this book shows how #fantasyliterature uniquely engages with its fluidity and complexity.
🔓 https://bit.ly/49hLEW2
Available #openaccess: '21st-Century Climate Imaginaries'
A comparative approach to show how iconic 21st-century climate metaphors often mask the destructive foundations of Anthropocene life.
🔓 https://bit.ly/3LYHwQY
A comparative approach to show how iconic 21st-century climate metaphors often mask the destructive foundations of Anthropocene life.
🔓 https://bit.ly/3LYHwQY
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Available #openaccess: '21st-Century Climate Imaginaries'
A comparative approach to show how iconic 21st-century climate metaphors often mask the destructive foundations of Anthropocene life.
🔓 https://bit.ly/3LYHwQY
A comparative approach to show how iconic 21st-century climate metaphors often mask the destructive foundations of Anthropocene life.
🔓 https://bit.ly/3LYHwQY
New for your library: 'The Bloomsbury Handbook of Anglophone Literature and Migration'
This handbook explores how literature shaped new ways of representing and understanding migration during a significant 70-year period of displacement.
📕 https://bit.ly/3XoDOTc
This handbook explores how literature shaped new ways of representing and understanding migration during a significant 70-year period of displacement.
📕 https://bit.ly/3XoDOTc
November 19, 2025 at 9:29 PM
New for your library: 'The Bloomsbury Handbook of Anglophone Literature and Migration'
This handbook explores how literature shaped new ways of representing and understanding migration during a significant 70-year period of displacement.
📕 https://bit.ly/3XoDOTc
This handbook explores how literature shaped new ways of representing and understanding migration during a significant 70-year period of displacement.
📕 https://bit.ly/3XoDOTc
Celebrate the festive season with exclusive deals on academic books until midnight, December 7th!
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November 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Celebrate the festive season with exclusive deals on academic books until midnight, December 7th!
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🎁 https://bit.ly/3WSo6Qg
What can airports, fly fishing, and ordinary objects teach us about curiosity and creativity? Christopher Schaberg shares why embracing confusion—and paying attention to small things—matters in an age of speed.
🎧 https://bit.ly/4hZXRBd
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385: Uncertainty and The Art of Paying Attention to Small Things — Quetico Coaching
Christopher Schaberg PhD. discusses embracing confusion and mystery as elements of uncertainty, valuing the small and overlooked, and making academic work publicly meaningful—connecting fly fishing, a...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
What can airports, fly fishing, and ordinary objects teach us about curiosity and creativity? Christopher Schaberg shares why embracing confusion—and paying attention to small things—matters in an age of speed.
🎧 https://bit.ly/4hZXRBd
🎧 https://bit.ly/4hZXRBd
'Closer Reading: Garrett Stewart's Essays in Refraction' is out now!
In his first book of essays, Garrett Stewart demonstrates and reframes his formidable powers as a close reader of a vast range of texts: novels, films, songs, book art, digital media, and more.
📘: https://bit.ly/47EZSiF
In his first book of essays, Garrett Stewart demonstrates and reframes his formidable powers as a close reader of a vast range of texts: novels, films, songs, book art, digital media, and more.
📘: https://bit.ly/47EZSiF
November 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
'Closer Reading: Garrett Stewart's Essays in Refraction' is out now!
In his first book of essays, Garrett Stewart demonstrates and reframes his formidable powers as a close reader of a vast range of texts: novels, films, songs, book art, digital media, and more.
📘: https://bit.ly/47EZSiF
In his first book of essays, Garrett Stewart demonstrates and reframes his formidable powers as a close reader of a vast range of texts: novels, films, songs, book art, digital media, and more.
📘: https://bit.ly/47EZSiF
'Talking to Writers' is out today!
In his newest books, Dean Nelson asks the question: how did my favorite authors make it big?
📗 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Fiction - bit.ly/47cWlI1
📘 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Nonfiction - bit.ly/4nng0tL
In his newest books, Dean Nelson asks the question: how did my favorite authors make it big?
📗 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Fiction - bit.ly/47cWlI1
📘 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Nonfiction - bit.ly/4nng0tL
November 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
'Talking to Writers' is out today!
In his newest books, Dean Nelson asks the question: how did my favorite authors make it big?
📗 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Fiction - bit.ly/47cWlI1
📘 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Nonfiction - bit.ly/4nng0tL
In his newest books, Dean Nelson asks the question: how did my favorite authors make it big?
📗 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Fiction - bit.ly/47cWlI1
📘 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Nonfiction - bit.ly/4nng0tL
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In his newest books, Dean Nelson asks the question: how did my favorite authors make it big?
📚💙 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Fiction - https://bit.ly/47cWlI1
💡📚 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Nonfiction - https://bit.ly/4nng0tL
📚💙 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Fiction - https://bit.ly/47cWlI1
💡📚 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Nonfiction - https://bit.ly/4nng0tL
November 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
In his newest books, Dean Nelson asks the question: how did my favorite authors make it big?
📚💙 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Fiction - https://bit.ly/47cWlI1
💡📚 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Nonfiction - https://bit.ly/4nng0tL
📚💙 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Fiction - https://bit.ly/47cWlI1
💡📚 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Nonfiction - https://bit.ly/4nng0tL
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It's #AcWriMo! Find the perfect guides and author tips for every stage of the writing process.
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#AcademicWriting #WritingCommunity #WritingTips
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#AcademicWriting #WritingCommunity #WritingTips
November 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
It's #AcWriMo! Find the perfect guides and author tips for every stage of the writing process.
✍️ https://bit.ly/4qAtftU
#AcademicWriting #WritingCommunity #WritingTips
✍️ https://bit.ly/4qAtftU
#AcademicWriting #WritingCommunity #WritingTips
With juicy morsels for lifelong #JaneAusten lovers as well as new students of the great writer, 'Jane Austen in 50 Words' offers new perspectives on her world, giving readers the tools to better understand her novels individually and as a whole.
📘Get your copy: www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...
📘Get your copy: www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...
November 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
With juicy morsels for lifelong #JaneAusten lovers as well as new students of the great writer, 'Jane Austen in 50 Words' offers new perspectives on her world, giving readers the tools to better understand her novels individually and as a whole.
📘Get your copy: www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...
📘Get your copy: www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...
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In this @readlux.bsky.social interview, Rebecca van Laer explored people’s relationships with their pets.
Read the full story: https://bit.ly/47hHhre
#BookSky #LiteraryStudies @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
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#BookSky #LiteraryStudies @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
Everything is Unnatural These Days
In an interview with author Rebecca van Laer below, editor Cheryl Rivera asks what you’ve all been wondering: are pets slaves?
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October 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
In this @readlux.bsky.social interview, Rebecca van Laer explored people’s relationships with their pets.
Read the full story: https://bit.ly/47hHhre
#BookSky #LiteraryStudies @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
Read the full story: https://bit.ly/47hHhre
#BookSky #LiteraryStudies @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
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Open-access and in print - Muireann Maguire (@muireanndinosaur.bsky.social), Invading the American Canon: Translators of Russian Literary Fiction, 1863-1984 (@bloomsburyhist.bsky.social, @bloomsburylit.bsky.social, 2025; h/t @jrdwrrn.bsky.social, #skystorians) www.bloomsbury.com/us/invading-...
Invading the American Canon
Through case studies of émigré literary translators and editors, this open access book traces how Russian literature kindled the American imagination in the 20t…
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October 31, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Open-access and in print - Muireann Maguire (@muireanndinosaur.bsky.social), Invading the American Canon: Translators of Russian Literary Fiction, 1863-1984 (@bloomsburyhist.bsky.social, @bloomsburylit.bsky.social, 2025; h/t @jrdwrrn.bsky.social, #skystorians) www.bloomsbury.com/us/invading-...
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In this @stltoday.com feature, @isanchezprado.bsky.social author of “Taco,” explained why tacos are more than just their ingredients.
Check out the full story: https://bit.ly/3XdQPyQ
📚💙 #FoodSky #LiteraryStudies @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
Check out the full story: https://bit.ly/3XdQPyQ
📚💙 #FoodSky #LiteraryStudies @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
Neman: Book by WashU professor says tacos are more than tacos
How did tacos become popular? "Technology plus organization plus broad social acceptance across classes, and all of that happened in the '20s."
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November 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
In this @stltoday.com feature, @isanchezprado.bsky.social author of “Taco,” explained why tacos are more than just their ingredients.
Check out the full story: https://bit.ly/3XdQPyQ
📚💙 #FoodSky #LiteraryStudies @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
Check out the full story: https://bit.ly/3XdQPyQ
📚💙 #FoodSky #LiteraryStudies @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
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✍️ The Anthropocene has ushered in progress and challenges, with ecological crises threatening all life. In search of new solutions in this #OpenAccess book, Lay Sion Ng turns to an unexpected source: Ernest Hemingway.
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Read now 👉 bit.ly/4nlXbqH
#Ecology #ClimateChange
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Read now 👉 bit.ly/4nlXbqH
#Ecology #ClimateChange
October 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
✍️ The Anthropocene has ushered in progress and challenges, with ecological crises threatening all life. In search of new solutions in this #OpenAccess book, Lay Sion Ng turns to an unexpected source: Ernest Hemingway.
@bloomsburylit.bsky.social
Read now 👉 bit.ly/4nlXbqH
#Ecology #ClimateChange
@bloomsburylit.bsky.social
Read now 👉 bit.ly/4nlXbqH
#Ecology #ClimateChange
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🔓 In celebration of #OAWeek, we have rounded up 6 books that exemplify the power of open scholarship.
Read our latest academic blog post, an #OpenAccess reading list of essential research on gender, climate and justice.
Read now: https://bit.ly/3L3BTAJ
#OAWeek25
Read our latest academic blog post, an #OpenAccess reading list of essential research on gender, climate and justice.
Read now: https://bit.ly/3L3BTAJ
#OAWeek25
October 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
🔓 In celebration of #OAWeek, we have rounded up 6 books that exemplify the power of open scholarship.
Read our latest academic blog post, an #OpenAccess reading list of essential research on gender, climate and justice.
Read now: https://bit.ly/3L3BTAJ
#OAWeek25
Read our latest academic blog post, an #OpenAccess reading list of essential research on gender, climate and justice.
Read now: https://bit.ly/3L3BTAJ
#OAWeek25
Read an excerpt and interview from the editors of 'Children's Literatures, Cultures, and Pedagogies in the Anthropocene' ⤵️
www.qmul.ac.uk/clpn/news-vi...
#childrensliterature #climatecrisis #anthropocene
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#childrensliterature #climatecrisis #anthropocene
An interview with the editors of Children's Literatures, Cultures, and Pedagogies in the Anthropocene
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October 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Read an excerpt and interview from the editors of 'Children's Literatures, Cultures, and Pedagogies in the Anthropocene' ⤵️
www.qmul.ac.uk/clpn/news-vi...
#childrensliterature #climatecrisis #anthropocene
www.qmul.ac.uk/clpn/news-vi...
#childrensliterature #climatecrisis #anthropocene
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Look what we saw out in the wild, in Foyles. 'Jane Austen in 50 Words' from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social turned JACKET OUT and in rather exalted company! Grab your copy here: www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...
October 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Look what we saw out in the wild, in Foyles. 'Jane Austen in 50 Words' from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social turned JACKET OUT and in rather exalted company! Grab your copy here: www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...
"The hardest times to live through are the hardest times to write about."
Read an excerpt of 'Writing the Hard Stuff' by @nikwalk.bsky.social ⤵️
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Read an excerpt of 'Writing the Hard Stuff' by @nikwalk.bsky.social ⤵️
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Imagining the Truth
Nicole Walker expands the boundaries of creative nonfiction when facts can’t tell the whole story.
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October 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"The hardest times to live through are the hardest times to write about."
Read an excerpt of 'Writing the Hard Stuff' by @nikwalk.bsky.social ⤵️
writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-oct...
Read an excerpt of 'Writing the Hard Stuff' by @nikwalk.bsky.social ⤵️
writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-oct...
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🔓 Interested in publishing open access but not sure where to start?
This #OAWeek, we are reflecting on our role, as a publisher, in removing potential barriers and helping academics assert control over the knowledge they produce.
Explore your OA options 👉 bit.ly/4oxaANK
This #OAWeek, we are reflecting on our role, as a publisher, in removing potential barriers and helping academics assert control over the knowledge they produce.
Explore your OA options 👉 bit.ly/4oxaANK
October 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
🔓 Interested in publishing open access but not sure where to start?
This #OAWeek, we are reflecting on our role, as a publisher, in removing potential barriers and helping academics assert control over the knowledge they produce.
Explore your OA options 👉 bit.ly/4oxaANK
This #OAWeek, we are reflecting on our role, as a publisher, in removing potential barriers and helping academics assert control over the knowledge they produce.
Explore your OA options 👉 bit.ly/4oxaANK
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Can't possibly recommend Rebecca van Laer's CAT enough, and so thrilled to reread now I've grabbed myself a hard copy from the Gower St Waterstones. Cat people unite -- this is such a smart, sensitive, and thoughtful book. Read it!!
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Can't possibly recommend Rebecca van Laer's CAT enough, and so thrilled to reread now I've grabbed myself a hard copy from the Gower St Waterstones. Cat people unite -- this is such a smart, sensitive, and thoughtful book. Read it!!
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
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Been looking forward to this one! by @rebeccavl.bsky.social whose writing I fell in love with in her Long Day Press book How to Adjust to the Dark
October 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Been looking forward to this one! by @rebeccavl.bsky.social whose writing I fell in love with in her Long Day Press book How to Adjust to the Dark
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Enjoy a snippet about the most iconic Mexican food—as seen from the perspective of a Mexico City native, Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado.
📚💡 Just published: https://bit.ly/3KwIIu8
#BookSky #FoodHistory @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
📚💡 Just published: https://bit.ly/3KwIIu8
#BookSky #FoodHistory @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Enjoy a snippet about the most iconic Mexican food—as seen from the perspective of a Mexico City native, Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado.
📚💡 Just published: https://bit.ly/3KwIIu8
#BookSky #FoodHistory @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
📚💡 Just published: https://bit.ly/3KwIIu8
#BookSky #FoodHistory @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
'Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction' is the winner of the @theignyteawards.bsky.social award for Outstanding Creative Nonfiction! 🙌🎉
Congratulations to @genni.bsky.social and the contributors!
🏆 ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/
📕 www.bloomsbury.com/afrocentered...
Congratulations to @genni.bsky.social and the contributors!
🏆 ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/
📕 www.bloomsbury.com/afrocentered...
October 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
'Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction' is the winner of the @theignyteawards.bsky.social award for Outstanding Creative Nonfiction! 🙌🎉
Congratulations to @genni.bsky.social and the contributors!
🏆 ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/
📕 www.bloomsbury.com/afrocentered...
Congratulations to @genni.bsky.social and the contributors!
🏆 ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/
📕 www.bloomsbury.com/afrocentered...