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International Crime Fiction Association @intcrimeficassoc.bsky.social · 5h

Submission Deadline: Dec. 1, 2025. Short biography including institutional affiliation and area of study. Submit abstracts to [email protected].
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International Crime Fiction Association @intcrimeficassoc.bsky.social · 5h

Submission Guidelines:
Abstract: max. 250 words Languages: Presentations may be delivered in English, French, Spanish, or other languages (please indicate preference).
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International Crime Fiction Association @intcrimeficassoc.bsky.social · 5h

#NEW #Interdisciplinary #CfP🚨

👉🏻 LANGUAGE & THE INEFFABLE: EXPRESSING THE INEXPRESSIBLE 👈🏻

8th Annual International Comparative Literature Conference, Louisiana State University

📆 March 27-28th, 2026 (Fri.-Sat.)
💻 Virtual attendance
🗣️ 15-20 minute presentations
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International Crime Fiction Association @intcrimeficassoc.bsky.social · 5h

🌟 The latest bulletin from our ECR Council for Early Career/Postgradutate Researchers 🌟

International Crime Fiction Association @intcrimeficassoc.bsky.social · 13h

Not yet a member of the ICFA? Sign up before Friday and you won't miss a thing in the future 😎 ➡️ buff.ly/uADFPDs.

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International Crime Fiction Association @intcrimeficassoc.bsky.social · 13h

⭐ ECR/PGR Members Event Reminder ⭐

➡️ Join us on Friday 17th October for a 'How To' workshop! Dr K. Münderlein will tell us all about the conference paper writing process.

📆 17th Oct.
🕑 2pm - 3:30pm (CEST)
💻 ECR/PGR Discord Server. Join here: buff.ly/HLxQxV0.

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International Crime Fiction Association @intcrimeficassoc.bsky.social · 13h

Not yet a member of the ICFA? Sign up before Friday and you won't miss a thing in the future 😎 ➡️ buff.ly/uADFPDs.

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International Crime Fiction Association @intcrimeficassoc.bsky.social · 1d

#BOTW: Dreadful Sorry (1993) is a YA crime novel featuring psychological time travel and a thrilling switch of the protagonist’s POV. As Molly tries to make sense of her dark nightmares, she experiences visions of a girl named Clementine, whose eerie past seems to be repeating itself.

International Crime Fiction Association @intcrimeficassoc.bsky.social · 2d

For colleagues who also research Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, this #interdisciplinary #CallforPapers (#CfP) may be of interest!

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International Crime Fiction Association @intcrimeficassoc.bsky.social · 5d

Jaber’s article “The 'Unclaimed Experience': #Trauma and #CrimeFiction” explores how trauma shapes crime fiction via fragmentation, repetition, and ambiguity, offering a complex lens that challenges traditional and clinical genre interpretations. ➡️

The “Unclaimed Experience”: Trauma and Crime Fiction – AWEJ

Arab World English Journal (AWEJ) Proceedings of KUST, Iraq Conference 2022 Pp.114-125 DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awej/KUST.9

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International Crime Fiction Association @intcrimeficassoc.bsky.social · 7d

📆 16th October
🕒 3-4pm (AEST)
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International Crime Fiction Association @intcrimeficassoc.bsky.social · 7d

🗣️UPCOMING Seminar on #CrimeFiction🗣️

On behalf of the Monash Crime Fiction Project, we are delighted to share details of their Oct. seminar, presented by Dr Clara Sitbon (The University of Sydney): "Decentring through Islands: Archipelagic Approaches to Multilingual Crime Fiction".
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International Crime Fiction Association @intcrimeficassoc.bsky.social · 7d

As this is an event for #ICFA members, please remember to first take out membership here: buff.ly/uADFPDs, if you would like to join us for the workshop.

International Crime Fiction Association @intcrimeficassoc.bsky.social · 7d

⭐ ECR/PGR Members Event ⭐

➡️ Join us on Friday 17th October for a 'How To' workshop! The workshop, hosted by Dr K. Münderlein, will guide you through the process of writing a conference paper. We hope you can join us!

📆 17th Oct.
🕑 2pm - 3:30pm (CEST)
💻 ECR/PGR Discord Server: buff.ly/HLxQxV0.

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The Crime Writers' Association @thecwa.bsky.social · 8d

The CWA Crime Writers' Clinics are BACK! Join industry experts and bestselling authors to take your craft to the next level! Workshops are free for CWA members and £15 for non-members. Find out more at: buff.ly/P6byNXb

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International Crime Fiction Association @intcrimeficassoc.bsky.social · 7d

🎉 Happy Birthday to #KirinoNatsuo, #bornonthisday in 1951! A leading voice in Japanese crime fiction, she’s known for her novels "Out" and "Grotesque," which delve into the psychological struggles of women and blend mystery with social critique. #CrimeFiction

International Crime Fiction Association @intcrimeficassoc.bsky.social · 8d

#BOTW: In The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim, a feminist psychological horror, Ji-won, a Korean college student, unravels after her father’s abandonment, obsessing over her mother’s boyfriend’s blue eyes as she spirals into violence and madness.

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International Crime Fiction Association @intcrimeficassoc.bsky.social · 10d

🎉 Happy Birthday to #MaryElizabethBraddon, #bornonthisday in 1835! A pioneer of Victorian crime fiction, her novel Lady Audley's Secret captivated readers with its twists, secrets and scandals, shaping the modern mystery genre. #CrimeFiction

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Victorian Popular Fiction Association @vpfa.bsky.social · 12d

🚨Call for Papers!
❓Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: A VPFA Study Day
🗺️Loughborough University
📅27 March 2026
💷 FREE
For full CfP: victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/for...
Contact the organiser Anne-Marie Beller (@braddonite.bsky.social) at [email protected] for more information

Mentally ill patients dancing at a ball at Somerset County Asylum. Process
print after a lithograph by K. Drake, ca. 1850/1855.
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CFP: Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities
A VPFA Study Day
Loughborough University, 27 March 2026

The Health Humanities and Victorian popular fiction intersect in revealing ways, offering insights into how 19th-century literature shaped and reflected contemporary understandings of health, illness, and the body. Popular narratives not only mirrored anxieties surrounding public health and medical progress but also contributed to shaping public perceptions of health and healing. Health Humanities approaches re-examine these texts to uncover how cultural narratives and literary representations influenced attitudes toward physical and mental well-being, gendered experiences of illness, and the ethics of care in an age of rapid scientific change.

Health Humanities is a particularly useful approach to sensation fiction because it illuminates the ways in which these emotionally charged, often morally ambiguous narratives explore and interrogate concepts of the body, illness, and mental health. Sensation fiction, with its focus on secrets, trauma, nervous disorders, and abnormal psychological states, frequently dramatizes the anxieties of Victorian society surrounding health, gender, and identity. By applying the lens of Health Humanities, scholars can uncover how these texts reflect and shape contemporary medical discourse. Interdisciplinary approaches also highlight how sensation fiction critiques institutional medicine, domestic care practices, and the pathologization of women’s experiences. Ultimately, Health Humanities allows us to see sensation fiction not just as entertainment, but as a culturally significant form that negotiates the meanings of illness, morality, and human vulnerability in a rapidly changing world.

20-minute papers are invited on any aspect of the health humanities and sensation fiction. Topics may include, but are not limited to the following:

• Madness, Hysteria, and the Sensation Heroine
• The Role of Doctors and Medical Authority in Se…

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International Crime Fiction Association @intcrimeficassoc.bsky.social · 12d

❗️ICFA Website Announcement ❗️

We're moving! 🏡 From Monday 6th Oct. our website's new home will be sites.google.com/view/icfa/home! Till then, our current website (www.captivatingcriminalitynetwork.net/journal.html) will remain live. Please remember to save our new location. 😁

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International Crime Fiction Association @intcrimeficassoc.bsky.social · 16d

⭐ ECR/PGR Event ⭐

➡️ Join us, the #ICFA’s ECR/PGR Council, for a welcome to the discord & ‘what to expect from us’ meeting!

📆 2nd Oct.
🕑 4pm - 5pm (CEST)
💻 ECR/PGR Discord Server. Join here: buff.ly/HLxQxV0.

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International Crime Fiction Association @intcrimeficassoc.bsky.social · 12d

🎉 Happy Birthday to #EdmundCrispin (Robert Bruce Montgomery), #bornonthisday in 1921. He was a crime fiction writer known for detective Gervase Fen. His novels, such as The Moving Toyshop, blend mystery, humour, and literary style—classic British crime fiction. #CrimeFiction

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International Crime Fiction Association @intcrimeficassoc.bsky.social · 12d

🎉 Happy Birthday to #GrahamGreene, #bornonthisday in 1904! He wrote "entertainments," including crime and suspense novels like The Power and the Glory, Brighton Rock, and A Gun for Sale, rich in espionage and moral complexity. #CrimeFiction

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Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social · 14d

Congratulations to Sara Lodge, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective has been shortlisted for the 2025 #WolfsonHistoryPrize, the UK's most prestigious history writing prize.

The shortlist: www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk

@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social @victoriandetective.bsky.social

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International Crime Fiction Association @intcrimeficassoc.bsky.social · 14d

🎉 Happy Birthday to #TrumanCapote, who was #bornonthisday in 1924. Best known for "Breakfast at Tiffany’s" and "In Cold Blood"—his groundbreaking true crime account of the 1959 Clutter murders—Capote was a novelist and playwright, not a crime writer by trade. #TrueCrime