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BACLS @bacls.bsky.social · Aug 29

📢Announcement: We are pleased to announce the newly elected executive committee:

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BACLS @bacls.bsky.social · May 30

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

BACLS @bacls.bsky.social · May 5

🏆📚 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/...

Calls for Submissions

bacls.org

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wendy copium @alicebennett.bsky.social · Jun 8

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

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Paul Clarke @paulmclarke.bsky.social · Jun 9

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

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Jennifer Cooke @jenniferacooke.bsky.social · Jun 10

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.

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Barbara Franchi @barbarafranchi.bsky.social · Jun 10

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.

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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · Jun 10

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!

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Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social · Jun 10

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.

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

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Scottish Universities Press @scotunipress.bsky.social · Jun 10

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! 👋

A photograph of SUP Commissioning Editor, Paul Clarke, standing behind a table looking at a catalogue. The table contains Scottish University Press books and merchandise.

A photograph of the programme for the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies 2025 Conference.

A photograph of the exterior of the University of Stirling building.

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · Jun 10

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...

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...

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · Jun 11

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.

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

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JSTOR @jstor.bsky.social · May 30

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

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.

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English at Bristol @bristolunienglish.bsky.social · Jun 2

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-...

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.'

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BACLS @bacls.bsky.social · May 30

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

BACLS @bacls.bsky.social · May 5

🏆📚 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/...

Calls for Submissions

bacls.org

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BACLS @bacls.bsky.social · May 30

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.

BACLS @bacls.bsky.social · May 5

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...

Executive Committee Nominations 2025

bacls.org

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wendy copium @alicebennett.bsky.social · May 21

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)

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

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BACLS @bacls.bsky.social · May 5

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...

Executive Committee Nominations 2025

bacls.org

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BACLS @bacls.bsky.social · May 5

🏆📚 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/...

Calls for Submissions

bacls.org

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Julia Ditter @juliaditter.bsky.social · May 7

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

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · May 6

Beyond the Caledonian Antisyzygy: Scottish Studies for the Future
13 May, free online

@juliaditter.bsky.social reflects on what a future-oriented Scottish Studies might look like, & highlights the need to move beyond historicist & nationalist frameworks
www.scotland.uni-mainz.de/reading-scot...

Event poster:

Reading Scotland
with Julia Ditter

Beyond the Caledonian Antisyzygy: Scottish Studies for the Future

Tuesday 13th May 2025
6:00–7:30 pm (German time) on MS Teams

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Caroline Wintersgill @carowintersgill.bsky.social · May 5

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

BACLS @bacls.bsky.social · May 5

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-...

British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies – What Happens Now? (BACLS-WHN 2025) | University of Stirling Online Shop

Seventh Biennial Conference of the British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies.

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BACLS @bacls.bsky.social · May 5

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-...

British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies – What Happens Now? (BACLS-WHN 2025) | University of Stirling Online Shop

Seventh Biennial Conference of the British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies.

shop.stir.ac.uk

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BACLS @bacls.bsky.social · May 5

🏆📚 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/...

Calls for Submissions

bacls.org

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BACLS @bacls.bsky.social · May 5

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

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BACLS @bacls.bsky.social · May 5

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...

Executive Committee Nominations 2025

bacls.org

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BACLS @bacls.bsky.social · May 5

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/

Join

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