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/

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...

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... ✨✨✨

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

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 🦌!

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/

Visual Cultures: Eugenie Brinkema’s Life-Destroying Diagrams (Duke UP 2022) & Edward King’s Twins and Recursion in Digital, Literary and Visual Cultures (Bloomsbury 2022)

Migrant Literatures: Glenda R. Carpio’s Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy (Columbia UP 2024) & Kevin Potter’s Poetics of the Migrant: Migrant LIterature and the Politics of Motion (Edinburgh UP 2025)

Arabic Literatures: Hiyem Cheurfa’s Contemporary Arab Women’s Life Writing and the Politics of Resistance (Edinburgh UP 2024) & Reuven Snir’s Contemporary Arabic Literature (Edinburgh UP 2024)

(Post)Digital Fiction: Martin Paul Eve’s Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History (Stanford UP 2024) Jaime Harrison’s Digital Culture in Contemporary Fiction (Liverpool UP 2024) & Elika Ortega’s Binding Media: Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas (Stanford UP 2025)

Capitalism Now: Adam Kelly's New Sincerity: American Fiction in the Neoliberal Age (Stanford UP 2024) & Thomas Travers's Peripheralizing DeLillo: Surplus Population, Capitalist Crisis, and the Novel (Bloomsbury 2022)

Monsters in Contemporary Fiction: Kaisa Kortekallio's Mutant Narratives in Ecological Science Fiction: Thinking with Embodied Estrangement (Bloomsbury 2023) & Emily Horton's 21st-Century British Gothic: The Monstrous, Spectral, and Uncanny in Contemporary Fiction (Bloomsbury 2024)

Reading through the Ages: Beth Driscoll’s What Readers Do: Aesthetic and Moral Practices of a Post-Digital Age (Bloomsbury 2024) & Matthew Rubery’s Reader's Block: A History of Reading Differences (Stanford UP 2022)

This would be a 3,000-word essay putting 2–3 books in conversation. You’re welcome to run with a topic we’ve proposed or tweak it to your research interests and we’d be happy to develop your ideas with you!

🔊C21 are excited to be commissioning a series of new review essays! Check out the suggestion of topics and titles in this thread and get in touch via email or DM our review editors (@heyitsdenisew.bsky.social and @olihaslam.bsky.social) if you’d like to review any of these recent publications!📖

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings (@c21literature.bsky.social) is seeking a new Editor to join its team! Join a leading journal in 21st-century #LiteraryStudies

Start Date: May 2025
Apply by: 22 April 2025

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Editing this article by Daisy Alice Powell - a definitive analysis of 'Up Lit' for @c21literature.bsky.social - was so enriching. Essential reading! c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...

Delighted my article on The Scottish Network Novel in @c21literature.bsky.social is now up! Open access and everything! I'm pretty pleased with this one. c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...

I reviewed Carolin Gebauer's Making Time: World Construction in the Present-Tense Novel. Check out the Spring issue of C21 Literature below:

New issue of @c21literature.bsky.social, Volume 12, Issue 1 (Spring 2025) is out now! Featuring articles and reviews on #C21Literature writings

Read it here: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1419/i...

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Congrats, it's a stunning article! We're so pleased to be able to publish it #diamond #OpenAccess thanks to @openlibhums.bsky.social .

We have a brilliant new issue for you! Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring 2025) is now available: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1419/i.... There are new articles on peripheral readings of poetry, the Scottish Network Novel, the new sub-genre of up-lit & reviews. Plus more articles coming soon! #OpenAccess #AcaSky

📣 🚨 C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings / @c21literature.bsky.social seeks a new editor! Join a leading journal in 21st-century #LiteraryStudies. Term starts May 2025.

📅 Deadline: 22 April 2025.
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Hiya BlueSky! We've got a cracking special issue on Ali Smith which features an interview with Ali Smith, published in December 2024: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/901/in.... Check it out, if you haven't already had a chance! #AcademicSky #BookSky #Literature #OpenAccess @bacls.bsky.social