Dr A. T. Hartley
@athartley.bsky.social
Research interests: gender performance in speculative and gothic fiction/ folk horror.
Working in academic publishing. Finding the South East flatter than preferred.
She/Her
Working in academic publishing. Finding the South East flatter than preferred.
She/Her
Pinned
Found in the uninhabited section of the office, down an empty corridor, below a staircase leading to nowhere
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Road to Mum, by Manchester-based artist Jen Orpin. #WomensArt
November 14, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Road to Mum, by Manchester-based artist Jen Orpin. #WomensArt
Highlight of my recent trip to Boston was getting to see humpback whales.
October 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Highlight of my recent trip to Boston was getting to see humpback whales.
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"A definitive, dramatic history of feminist activist struggle against the medical establishment’s understanding of AIDS and the terrible policies it led to."
Risk and Resistance by @azizaahmed.bsky.social , Out Now
@womenknowhistory.bsky.social @womenknowlaw.bsky.social
https://cup.org/3J5NGxG
Risk and Resistance by @azizaahmed.bsky.social , Out Now
@womenknowhistory.bsky.social @womenknowlaw.bsky.social
https://cup.org/3J5NGxG
October 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"A definitive, dramatic history of feminist activist struggle against the medical establishment’s understanding of AIDS and the terrible policies it led to."
Risk and Resistance by @azizaahmed.bsky.social , Out Now
@womenknowhistory.bsky.social @womenknowlaw.bsky.social
https://cup.org/3J5NGxG
Risk and Resistance by @azizaahmed.bsky.social , Out Now
@womenknowhistory.bsky.social @womenknowlaw.bsky.social
https://cup.org/3J5NGxG
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From a middle terrace in Hebden Bridge.
'It's like throwing a dart from Dublin and hitting the bulls eye in New York.' @ronanhession.bsky.social
Leonard and Hungry Paul adaptation by the BBC and narrated by Julia Roberts will be on our TV screens in a few weeks.
Absolute magic.
@nytimes.com
'It's like throwing a dart from Dublin and hitting the bulls eye in New York.' @ronanhession.bsky.social
Leonard and Hungry Paul adaptation by the BBC and narrated by Julia Roberts will be on our TV screens in a few weeks.
Absolute magic.
@nytimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
From a middle terrace in Hebden Bridge.
'It's like throwing a dart from Dublin and hitting the bulls eye in New York.' @ronanhession.bsky.social
Leonard and Hungry Paul adaptation by the BBC and narrated by Julia Roberts will be on our TV screens in a few weeks.
Absolute magic.
@nytimes.com
'It's like throwing a dart from Dublin and hitting the bulls eye in New York.' @ronanhession.bsky.social
Leonard and Hungry Paul adaptation by the BBC and narrated by Julia Roberts will be on our TV screens in a few weeks.
Absolute magic.
@nytimes.com
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I share this syllabus bc I'm one of a tiny handful of university faculty in the UK who teach trans history at a specialist level, & I'd like there to be more of us! I learned the field from scratch post-PhD, bc at my prev institution it was politically necessary - which means that you can too!
Updated my grad syllabus for the new year! The latest version of the weekly schedule and readings is now on the Teaching page of my website: samuelrutherford.com/teaching/
August 16, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I share this syllabus bc I'm one of a tiny handful of university faculty in the UK who teach trans history at a specialist level, & I'd like there to be more of us! I learned the field from scratch post-PhD, bc at my prev institution it was politically necessary - which means that you can too!
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Please , if you are able
Support Independent publishers.
They are doing more than most to find, nurture and publish great new writers and stories.
There are many but here are a few.
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@galleybeggars.bsky.social
@saraband-books.bsky.social
Thank you.
Support Independent publishers.
They are doing more than most to find, nurture and publish great new writers and stories.
There are many but here are a few.
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@galleybeggars.bsky.social
@saraband-books.bsky.social
Thank you.
August 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Please , if you are able
Support Independent publishers.
They are doing more than most to find, nurture and publish great new writers and stories.
There are many but here are a few.
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@galleybeggars.bsky.social
@saraband-books.bsky.social
Thank you.
Support Independent publishers.
They are doing more than most to find, nurture and publish great new writers and stories.
There are many but here are a few.
@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@galleybeggars.bsky.social
@saraband-books.bsky.social
Thank you.
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My book is now listed and has an ISBN. 🥰
www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
Sylvia Plath and the Supernatural
Cambridge Core - American Literature - Sylvia Plath and the Supernatural
www.cambridge.org
July 23, 2025 at 8:57 AM
My book is now listed and has an ISBN. 🥰
www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
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Poem by Amy Clampitt, from The Kingfisher. I like how it undercuts its own tone of heavy assertion with more casual phrasing: 'hardly more than a sprout', 'cheerful tousle', 'outdoorsy'.
August 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Poem by Amy Clampitt, from The Kingfisher. I like how it undercuts its own tone of heavy assertion with more casual phrasing: 'hardly more than a sprout', 'cheerful tousle', 'outdoorsy'.
Found in the uninhabited section of the office, down an empty corridor, below a staircase leading to nowhere
August 1, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Found in the uninhabited section of the office, down an empty corridor, below a staircase leading to nowhere
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Visionary, urgent… truly extraordinary blendings of environmental & social history. - Mark Wormald
A spirited, astonishing, bewildering collection. - Adam Piette
One of 2024's wildest volumes of poetry. - Christian Bok
'Eely'
Steve Ely
£2 off until Sunday
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
A spirited, astonishing, bewildering collection. - Adam Piette
One of 2024's wildest volumes of poetry. - Christian Bok
'Eely'
Steve Ely
£2 off until Sunday
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
July 31, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Visionary, urgent… truly extraordinary blendings of environmental & social history. - Mark Wormald
A spirited, astonishing, bewildering collection. - Adam Piette
One of 2024's wildest volumes of poetry. - Christian Bok
'Eely'
Steve Ely
£2 off until Sunday
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
A spirited, astonishing, bewildering collection. - Adam Piette
One of 2024's wildest volumes of poetry. - Christian Bok
'Eely'
Steve Ely
£2 off until Sunday
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
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As a reader of translated fiction (and cu$tom€r) I'm not interested in buying AI translations. Put translators' names on covers and identify AI/AI-assisted translations so the right people get credit and the reader knows what they're getting.
July 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
As a reader of translated fiction (and cu$tom€r) I'm not interested in buying AI translations. Put translators' names on covers and identify AI/AI-assisted translations so the right people get credit and the reader knows what they're getting.
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From MIH Archives: Pragmatic utopianism and race? Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social analyzes H.G. Wells’ role as a pragmatist social thinker by focusing on his assault on prevailing theories of race and the reception of his ideas in the North Atlantic during the early 20th century
PRAGMATIC UTOPIANISM AND RACE: H. G. WELLS AS SOCIAL SCIENTIST | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
PRAGMATIC UTOPIANISM AND RACE: H. G. WELLS AS SOCIAL SCIENTIST - Volume 16 Issue 3
bit.ly
July 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
From MIH Archives: Pragmatic utopianism and race? Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social analyzes H.G. Wells’ role as a pragmatist social thinker by focusing on his assault on prevailing theories of race and the reception of his ideas in the North Atlantic during the early 20th century
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🕵️♀️ What do Agatha Christie’s detectives reveal about mid-century masculinity?
Dive into a sharp take by the author of our Very Short Introduction to Agatha Christie over on The Conversation:
🔗 https://oxford.ly/44Rm0ET
Dive into a sharp take by the author of our Very Short Introduction to Agatha Christie over on The Conversation:
🔗 https://oxford.ly/44Rm0ET
Agatha Christie's mid-century 'manosphere' reveals a different kind of dysfunctional male
Instances of male characters' hatred of women in Christie's fiction are a long way from the toxic online "manosphere" of today.
oxford.ly
July 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🕵️♀️ What do Agatha Christie’s detectives reveal about mid-century masculinity?
Dive into a sharp take by the author of our Very Short Introduction to Agatha Christie over on The Conversation:
🔗 https://oxford.ly/44Rm0ET
Dive into a sharp take by the author of our Very Short Introduction to Agatha Christie over on The Conversation:
🔗 https://oxford.ly/44Rm0ET
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During the 1930s, the US "book women" of Kentucky, aka "packsaddle librarians," delivered books to remote and isolated communities in the Appalachian Mountains on horseback, riding in rain, snow or heat ...#WomensArt
July 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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If this is accurate, WeTransfer is unusable for professional creative work. Would violate most work-for-hire contracts to share copyrighted material with a third party like this.
July 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
If this is accurate, WeTransfer is unusable for professional creative work. Would violate most work-for-hire contracts to share copyrighted material with a third party like this.
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We’ve Just opened our first open submissions window for working-class writers.
We’re looking for stories that capture something about being working class in Britain in 2025. Can be fiction or non-fiction, & 500-3000 words long.
Please pitch us.
Details here:
thebeemagazine.com/open-call-fo...
We’re looking for stories that capture something about being working class in Britain in 2025. Can be fiction or non-fiction, & 500-3000 words long.
Please pitch us.
Details here:
thebeemagazine.com/open-call-fo...
Open Call for Submissions
Send us your ideas for stories you’d like to write for the Bee.
thebeemagazine.com
July 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
We’ve Just opened our first open submissions window for working-class writers.
We’re looking for stories that capture something about being working class in Britain in 2025. Can be fiction or non-fiction, & 500-3000 words long.
Please pitch us.
Details here:
thebeemagazine.com/open-call-fo...
We’re looking for stories that capture something about being working class in Britain in 2025. Can be fiction or non-fiction, & 500-3000 words long.
Please pitch us.
Details here:
thebeemagazine.com/open-call-fo...
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I have a new poem @poetrylondon.bsky.social poetrylondon.co.uk/sestina-for-...
Sestina for Elizabeth Bishop – Discover – Poetry London
poetrylondon.co.uk
July 14, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I have a new poem @poetrylondon.bsky.social poetrylondon.co.uk/sestina-for-...
Hugely enjoying spending Sunday with the windows and door thrown open, reading Jane Alison’s ‘Meander, Spiral, Explode’.
#narratology #narrativestructure #writing #fictionwriting
#narratology #narrativestructure #writing #fictionwriting
July 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Hugely enjoying spending Sunday with the windows and door thrown open, reading Jane Alison’s ‘Meander, Spiral, Explode’.
#narratology #narrativestructure #writing #fictionwriting
#narratology #narrativestructure #writing #fictionwriting
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We’ve got an unbelievably good panel discussing how society has thought about witches through time. Weds 23 April. In person tickets are gone but you can register to watch online
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/histo...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/histo...
History of the Witch
Delve into the history and symbolism of witches with our panel of award-winning historians and writers; Professor Ronald Hutton FBA, Dr Laura Kounine and A. K. Blakemore.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
April 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM
We’ve got an unbelievably good panel discussing how society has thought about witches through time. Weds 23 April. In person tickets are gone but you can register to watch online
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/histo...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/histo...
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CALL FOR PAPERS
This one-day symposium invites Arts and Humanities scholars working in relation to Neolithic or other ancient stone structures to submit an abstract for a short presentation (15 min) or a longer presentation/paper (25 min) on the themes of materiality, mythology, aDect & temporality.
This one-day symposium invites Arts and Humanities scholars working in relation to Neolithic or other ancient stone structures to submit an abstract for a short presentation (15 min) or a longer presentation/paper (25 min) on the themes of materiality, mythology, aDect & temporality.
March 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
CALL FOR PAPERS
This one-day symposium invites Arts and Humanities scholars working in relation to Neolithic or other ancient stone structures to submit an abstract for a short presentation (15 min) or a longer presentation/paper (25 min) on the themes of materiality, mythology, aDect & temporality.
This one-day symposium invites Arts and Humanities scholars working in relation to Neolithic or other ancient stone structures to submit an abstract for a short presentation (15 min) or a longer presentation/paper (25 min) on the themes of materiality, mythology, aDect & temporality.
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Egret in the mist (and up a tree for some reason)
February 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Egret in the mist (and up a tree for some reason)
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Delighted to announce that we will be publishing
_Post It Notes From Underground_ by Simon Crump
In the summer of 2026.
‘A glorious combination of humane, angry and deranged’
You lucky, lucky readers!
@thebookseller.bsky.social
@bookcornerhx.bsky.social
@theguardian.com
_Post It Notes From Underground_ by Simon Crump
In the summer of 2026.
‘A glorious combination of humane, angry and deranged’
You lucky, lucky readers!
@thebookseller.bsky.social
@bookcornerhx.bsky.social
@theguardian.com
January 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Delighted to announce that we will be publishing
_Post It Notes From Underground_ by Simon Crump
In the summer of 2026.
‘A glorious combination of humane, angry and deranged’
You lucky, lucky readers!
@thebookseller.bsky.social
@bookcornerhx.bsky.social
@theguardian.com
_Post It Notes From Underground_ by Simon Crump
In the summer of 2026.
‘A glorious combination of humane, angry and deranged’
You lucky, lucky readers!
@thebookseller.bsky.social
@bookcornerhx.bsky.social
@theguardian.com
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The Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize now for the "unputdownable" novel f RT on unpublished women. The winner will receive a £1,500 prize, and all shortlisted authors get a one-on-one consultation with a literary agent.
Please share.
www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/fictionprize
Please share.
www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/fictionprize
December 27, 2024 at 10:50 PM
The Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize now for the "unputdownable" novel f RT on unpublished women. The winner will receive a £1,500 prize, and all shortlisted authors get a one-on-one consultation with a literary agent.
Please share.
www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/fictionprize
Please share.
www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/fictionprize
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Interesting article proposing that Thomas Hardy was the founder of folk horror fiction. Not sure I'd go that far but an interesting discussion, and The Withered Arm definitely fits.
www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...
www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...
The Man Who Invented Folk Horror
The category of folk horror was first identified in the 1970s, and in recent years it has generated a huge amount of media and critical attention. It is
www.patheos.com
January 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Interesting article proposing that Thomas Hardy was the founder of folk horror fiction. Not sure I'd go that far but an interesting discussion, and The Withered Arm definitely fits.
www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...
www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...
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Anyone craving more folklore and folk horror in their bluesky lives might like the starter pack I made. I'm always adding to it, especially trying to include artists, musicians, performers, morris dancers, mummers, etc. Let me know if I'm missing anyone :) go.bsky.app/LXSZqSM
January 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Anyone craving more folklore and folk horror in their bluesky lives might like the starter pack I made. I'm always adding to it, especially trying to include artists, musicians, performers, morris dancers, mummers, etc. Let me know if I'm missing anyone :) go.bsky.app/LXSZqSM