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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings
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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings is the official journal of @bacls.bsky.social. The journal is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publication, and circulation of 21st-century writings. Published by @openlibhums.org
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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · 28d
Thrilled to announce our new issue, Novel Media/Media Novel, edited by Dong Xia and Sandro Eich:
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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings | Issue: Issue: 2(12) Novel Media / Media Novel (Autumn 2025) (2025)
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johannawinant.bsky.social Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 13h
may I recommend writing a book review? it's fast, it's useful, it's a good thing to do. if it's an academic review, just look up the book review editor for a journal where you'd like to publish and pitch a review of a book that came out in the last few years or is forthcoming
December 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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a new monograph by one of our fabulous advisory board ☺️
dranindyar.bsky.social Anindya Raychaudhuri (he/him) @dranindyar.bsky.social · 8h
Books are like children in one important way - both take a village to raise.

Thank you to my village, all over the world, who have helped me along the way. None of this could have happened without you.

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A Cultural History of Vertigo
The first interdisciplinary history of vertigo, this book covers medical accounts from antiquity to the present, testimonies of lived experience, and literary a…
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December 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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ojcollective.bsky.social
We're hiring! We have 2 jobs advertised: Library Engagement Lead and Operations Manager, deadline Tues 6 January 2026. Links:

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Come work for a major new international organisation funding #openaccess publishing!
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December 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Another one of our team has a book out! Congratulations Melissa!
melissaschuh.bsky.social Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 10d
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, because my book is out now, fresh off the press!
Happy book birthday to “Literary Autobiography: Contemporary Novelists and their Self-Representations” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) 📕🎉! doi.org/10.1007/978-... @hss.springernature.com
Book cover: Melissa Schuh, Literary Autobiography: Contemporary No Elises and their Self-Representations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) Flyer: Melissa Schuh Literary Autobiography Contemporary Novelists and their Self-Representations -Explores the narrative strategies developed by novelists as they cross generic boundaries of �ction and non-fiction -Presents case studies of works by canonical contemporary authors -Develops de�nitions and concepts to analyse forms of autobiographical writing that �flaunt their �fictionality Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing Get 20% off with this code: PALAUT PALGRAVE STUDIES IN LIFE WRITING Series Editors: Clare Brant • Max Saunders "Melissa Schuh's Literary Autobiography offers a theoretically elegant and literarily sensitive rethinking of the fraught relationship between the novel and autobiography. Central to the book is the concept of performative contradiction, which Schuh develops as the defining aesthetic strategy of literary autobiography—a strategy that embraces fictionality not to undermine life writing, but to open it toward deeper questions of truth, identity, and narrative ethics. Schuh's analyses of Roth, Coetzee, and Grass persuasively show how these works form an aesthetic lineage that contemporary autofiction continues to draw from. This book will be indispensable for scholars across life writing studies, narratology, and literary ethics." —Stefan Kjerkegaard, Aarhus University, Denmark Why do novelists write about themselves? What modes do novelists use to manipulate representations of their personality? Why is it often late in their career that novelists write about their own lives? This book develops the concept of literary autobiography as a genre responding to a profound uncertainty about the knowability of the self, often negotiated through a particular concern with the writing life. Comprising a particular sub-genre and style of contemporary life writing, the autobiographies examined in this book foreground their formal 'literariness' through the explicit use of fictionality, disrupting established (auto) biographical tropes by employing narrative innovations associated with postmodern fiction and prefigured by modernist experimentation. Taken together, they exemplify an aesthetics of performative contradiction, in which novelistic strategies cast doubt on the veracity of the life represented. Exploring works by canonical and popular novelists - J.M. Coetzee, Philip Roth, Günter Grass, Elena Ferrante, and Karl Ove Knausgard - this book addresses the increasing novelisation of contemporary life w…
December 1, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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princetonupress.bsky.social
“A poignant appraisal of readers’ quest to find intimacy with the authors they love.” @kdclewin.bsky.social’s forthcoming The Writer’s Room (Feb. 17, 2026) earned a positive review in @publisherswkly.bsky.social. Read the full review here:
The Writer’s Room: The Hidden Worlds That Shape the Books We Love by Katie Da Cunha Lewin
Literature lecturer Lewin debuts with an insightful exploration of the spaces where famous writers crafted their most influentia...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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soniasulaiman.bsky.social
Some of you may know that I curate a huge reading list if Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It is not up to date… Please comment if you identify as Palestinian, or if you know of something that should be in the list! Please share for visibility. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...
Read Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading List
The following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. Novels: Novels by Na…
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November 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Sharing this again - deadline tomorrow! We'd love to hear from you
November 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Opinion: Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing.

Another one of our most-read articles over the last week.

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Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing - Research Professional News
Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards
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November 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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madeleinemcq.bsky.social
I'm honored to have my article, "Counterfactuals and the Tumblr Aesthetic: Allegories of Reading in _Frankenstein_ and _The Locked Tomb_" included in this special issue!
openlibhums.org Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 22d
New issue of @c21literature.bsky.social: Journal of 21st-century Writings, Volume 12, Issue 2, is out now! Novel Media/Media Novel, edited by Dong Xia and Sandro Eich: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1286/i...
Cover image for C21 vol. 12, no. 2 (Autumn 2025). A smartphone on a book.
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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graphic designers are essential and under-appreciated!! huge thanks to @sjzavala.bsky.social for helping us with our most recent cover.
Cover image for C21 vol. 12, no. 2 (Autumn 2025). A smartphone on a book.
November 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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openlibhums.org
Universities want new business models, not just discounts.

As @theblochian.bsky.social (OLH Exec. Director) writes: Together we can move our university funding away from obscene commercial extractivists and back into scholar-led non-profit models

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Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing - Research Professional News
Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards
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November 12, 2025 at 11:14 AM
c21literature.bsky.social
Thrilled to announce our new issue, Novel Media/Media Novel, edited by Dong Xia and Sandro Eich:
c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1286/i...
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings | Issue: Issue: 2(12) Novel Media / Media Novel (Autumn 2025) (2025)
c21.openlibhums.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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c21literature.bsky.social
In conjunction with @bacls.bsky.social, we are looking for some proposals for panels at BAAS and MSA! Read more here:
Call for C21/BACLS Panel Proposals
BACLS members are warmly invited to submit proposals for panels for the upcoming British Association for American Studies (BAAS) and British Association of Modernist Studies (BAMS) conferences in coll...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM
c21literature.bsky.social
In conjunction with @bacls.bsky.social, we are looking for some proposals for panels at BAAS and MSA! Read more here:
Call for C21/BACLS Panel Proposals
BACLS members are warmly invited to submit proposals for panels for the upcoming British Association for American Studies (BAAS) and British Association of Modernist Studies (BAMS) conferences in coll...
c21.openlibhums.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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One of our reviews editors @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social has a book out! Congratulations Denise!
bendavies.bsky.social Ben Davies @bendavies.bsky.social · Nov 6
Very happy to have received a physical copy of @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social fantastic new book. @edinburghup.bsky.social @bacls.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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kironward.bsky.social
as a smaller, digital-only journal that is diamond open access and charges no author-processing fees (thanks @openlibhums.org!), we can promise that we will be able to make a decision about your submission much faster than traditional print journals.
c21literature.bsky.social C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · Oct 30
We've refreshed out author guidelines for submissions to our journal, including new guidance for anyone looking to submit an interview. We'd love to hear from you!
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Author Guidelines
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October 31, 2025 at 11:18 AM
c21literature.bsky.social
We've refreshed out author guidelines for submissions to our journal, including new guidance for anyone looking to submit an interview. We'd love to hear from you!
c21.openlibhums.org/site/authorg...
Author Guidelines
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October 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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kironward.bsky.social
one of the ironies of the push for open access in the uk is that article processing charges mean actual open access publishing is ever more unaffordable and ever more restricted to wealthy institutions, and basically impossible for colleagues between contracts. open indeed!
c21literature.bsky.social C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · Oct 27
As part of the @openlibhums.org C21 never charges authors processing charges. One of the many positives of open access publishing
kironward.bsky.social Kiron Ward @kironward.bsky.social · Oct 27
the costs that the academic publishing industry extract out of universities are not sustainable and present a substantial barrier to publication for precarious colleagues (and, in the future the govt is making, colleagues at smaller/less well-off institutions)
October 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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As part of the @openlibhums.org C21 never charges authors processing charges. One of the many positives of open access publishing
kironward.bsky.social Kiron Ward @kironward.bsky.social · Oct 27
the costs that the academic publishing industry extract out of universities are not sustainable and present a substantial barrier to publication for precarious colleagues (and, in the future the govt is making, colleagues at smaller/less well-off institutions)
eicathomefinn.bsky.social Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Oct 23
'New proposals by Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, Wiley and Sage were sent to universities this week after their initial offers were decisively rejected by institutions in a sector-wide consultation run by Jisc,...negotiating jointly with Universities UK on behalf of universities.' 1/3
October 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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catgander.bsky.social
Delighted to be a new Advisory Board Member for @c21literature.bsky.social. More about this most excellent journal can be found here: c21.openlibhums.org/site/about/
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September 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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New publication in @c21literature.bsky.social > “The Novel, Recycled: On Tom Comitta’s The Nature Book (2023)” by Michael Kalisch. Read it here: doi.org/10.16995/c21...
The Novel, Recycled: On Tom Comitta's <em>The Nature Book </em>(2023)
This essay offers an introduction to the work of Tom Comitta and a reading of their 2023 novel, The Nature Book, a citational fiction composed entirely of nature descriptions copied from other novels....
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July 31, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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kironward.bsky.social
Latest article up in the @c21literature.bsky.social Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring–Summer 2025) issue is Kathryn Hume on Ben Aaronovitch's _Rivers of London_: 'Magic and Power: Ben Aaronovitch’s Multi-Level Approach' c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/9... ✨✨✨
July 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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alicebennett.bsky.social
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
wordcloud of author names, with the biggest being Ali Smith, David Mitchell, Margaret Atwood and Don DeLillo
June 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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melissaschuh.bsky.social
Some @bacls.bsky.social #WHN25 Stirling conference snapshots in anticipation of the @c21literature.bsky.social roundtable: The Century at 25, which I‘m a part of with @alicebennett.bsky.social , @keeblearin.bsky.social @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social @olihaslam.bsky.social . There’s a conference deer 🦌!
Printed sign announcing the BACLS (British Association for contemporary literary studies) What Happens Now? Conference 2025 at the University of Stirling, on a green pinboard with a landscape painting in the background. Photograph of a part of the BACLS WHN25 conference programme, showing the plenary roundtable and workshop: The Century at 25. Photograph of a buffet spread of sandwiches, wraps and fruit. Photograph of a deer in a grassy field between two trees.
June 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Our Exec Director, @theblochian.bsky.social, will be speaking at the Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2025! She’ll join others to discuss the new @ojcollective.bsky.social, a community-led, no-APC #OA alternative to big deals and TAs.

📅 More info & registration: www.openlibhums.org/news/816/
Dr Caroline Edwards to Speak at the Open Science and Scholarship Festival 2025
We’re delighted to announce that our Executive Director, Dr Caroline Edwards, will be participating in the Open Science &amp; Scholarship Festival 2025, organised in collaboration with LSE, the Franci...
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May 28, 2025 at 9:18 AM