It's National Grief Awareness Week in the UK, so I put down some thoughts about the poetry of grief and accepting grief's absurdity. open.substack.com/pub/jtwelsch... #NGAW #grief #bereavement

To mark National Grief Awareness Week (December 2nd - 8th) we're proud to share the cover for @jtwelsch.bsky.social's forthcoming book, The poetry of suicide: Lessons in grief from the lives and deaths of poets, which is publishing April 2026.
#nationalgriefawarenessweek #booksky

Brilliant time in the archives @uoyborthwick.bsky.social with Liberal Arts students today, going through old planning documents, prospectuses, and press clippings around the origins of @york.ac.uk - from a failed 1647 bid to more radical ideas for learning & student life when it launched in 1963.

40 years ago today, the first Calvin & Hobbes comic strip was published. I honestly don’t know if any writer or artist has given me more lasting joy and wonder than Bill Watterson.

Introducing: Dr JT Welsch

@jtwelsch.bsky.social is Director of Liberal Arts and Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Industries at the University of York. He works on asexuality, creativity studies, creative industries, creative writing, queer history, and creative-critical practice.

Weekend book foraging! Perks of living in York, the UK’s rare book capital. It’s not a Hogarth but glad to add a 1940 Faber Waste Land to the Eliot collection and complete my set of Faber Berrymans with a pristine His Toy, His Dream, His Rest.

We're delighted to share with you our brand-new Spring / Summer 2026 Trade Catalogue.

Featuring new titles publishing March-August 2026, including @jtwelsch.bsky.social, @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social, @arghkid.bsky.social and others.

Browse here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/catalogues #booksky

Thrilled this network now exists & thrilled to be part of it. Please share with anyone researching aro/ace things. Happy Ace Week indeed!

I don’t really understand Substack, but I needed a place to work through some thoughts about my new book. For a cheery first post, I’m grappling with how to avoid ‘selling your trauma’.
open.substack.com/pub/jtwelsch...

So pleased with the cover MUP came up with for this tough book. In it, Ophelia’s offstage death is an exemplar of the poetry-like ambiguities around every suicide.

Out in April, but pre-order-able now from the usual places & @manchesterup.bsky.social: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526191991/

"We need to lead the design of data systems, not the other way round."

📝 A short blog post from the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab on last week's QUEER DATA SHOWCASE in Edinburgh. gensexdatalab.business-school.ed.ac.uk/updates/quee...

Smiths in York Station looking Pride-ready as I head to Edinburgh today for a talk in this very exciting Queer Data Showcase 🏳️‍🌈 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-queer-...

🎺Announcing the fantastic lineup of speakers for the Irish Studies and Cultural Theory Summer School in Vienna from July 14-18, 2024 (Part 1)!! 🥁

More info: lnkd.in/ged32uZg

#irishstudies #summerschool

Mini-festival today for PhD students @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social - immediately fascinated in a session on careers outside academia to see some actual (rare) data on this, showing Humanities PhDs are most likely to move into ‘other occupations’.

Looking forward to this first-of-its-kind #QueerDataShowcase in Edinburgh, 5 June - a lovely bunch of artists, academics, and activists playing with queer data in different ways. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-queer-...

Preludes to a Mallorcan pilgrimage.