This was a fantastic colloquium and it’s great to see all the materials & keynote up on Creative Critical dot net! Check it out 👇

“Every man who plays with literature at all must be ambitious to
succeed in some form of art that may be called 'creative,' as distinct from critical—a distinction which, since Arnold taught us our lesson, we know does not exist. ” Macy's nascent Creative-criticsm @creativecritical.bsky.social

If anyone on here has received an RSL Literature Matter Award and would be up for sharing their application, I'd be v grateful!

Published today! My book on play and seriousness.

“… explodes all academic frames and expectations.” Emmanuel Carrère @manchesterup.bsky.social

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177766/

New on our website: What Is Creative Criticism? A Field Report on a Colloquium at Oxford, hosted by Joe Moshenska and Iris Pearson and with a keynote by Mary Capello.

What are the English education journals/pubs publishing book reviews now? Would like to write about the @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and @johannawinant.bsky.social volume about close reading for a HS teacher audience, because I sincerely think people would find it useful and it’d be fun to write about.

Help John help us 👇

“audacious, polemical, essential”

*Fair: The Life-Art of Translation* got a dream review in The Observer New Review today !!! Out Friday from @prototypepubs.bsky.social

New on our website: @victoriamoul.bsky.social writes about 'The Role of Verse Paraphrase in Early Modern Education and Literary Culture'

So good! Saving this…

Thanks, Jen!

Just one more day to submit for Tolka Issue Ten. Send us your non-fiction, memoir, essays, autofiction, and anything that falls in between. Submissions close midnight, Wednesday 21 May.

New on our website: @victoriamoul.bsky.social writes about 'The Role of Verse Paraphrase in Early Modern Education and Literary Culture'

One such haunted poet is David Miller, whose 'Then and Here: A meditation on Gérard de Nerval' we published in 2022...

'...this could be equally true for the poem, which is also a stain between its poles; an indiscriminately word-covered darkness, the thick blackness of airless language – and opposing it, a white and wordless silence.'

Denise Riley, 'Staining, egging, binding'

creativecritical.net/staining-egg...

'...this could be equally true for the poem, which is also a stain between its poles; an indiscriminately word-covered darkness, the thick blackness of airless language – and opposing it, a white and wordless silence.'

Denise Riley, 'Staining, egging, binding'

creativecritical.net/staining-egg...

This year I’ll be writing the ‘Fiction 1945-2000’ section for the 2024 edition of The Year’s Work in English Studies. If you published a monograph / chapter / article on (or mostly on) British fiction from 1945 to 2000 between 1st January and 31st December 2024, please let me know! Thanks

‘Poetics takes structural homologies from science and philosophy, but also from gardening and pinball, if it needs to.’

From our archive: @robertsheppard.bsky.social on poetics

Friends, creativecritical.net is now on Bluesky! It's an online journal and resource co-edited by Thomas Karshan, Gabriel Flynn, and myself, dedicated to bridging the gap between creative and critical practices.

From our archive: 'Why I'm No Longer a Proper Academic' by @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social

Hi Emily, thank you for making this! Please could you add us to the pack?

Hello, Bluesky!

We are a website for writing, research, and teaching that explores the relationship between creative and critical practices.

To give you a taste, here's one of our most popular posts: @vijaykhurana.bsky.social rewriting a passage from Joyce's The Dead.

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