Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing
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Book news from the Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing team in London and New York - formerly Continuum Literary Studies!
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In his newest books, Dean Nelson asks the question: how did my favorite authors make it big?
📚💙 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Fiction - https://bit.ly/47cWlI1
💡📚 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Nonfiction - https://bit.ly/4nng0tL
📚💙 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Fiction - https://bit.ly/47cWlI1
💡📚 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Nonfiction - https://bit.ly/4nng0tL
November 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
In his newest books, Dean Nelson asks the question: how did my favorite authors make it big?
📚💙 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Fiction - https://bit.ly/47cWlI1
💡📚 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Nonfiction - https://bit.ly/4nng0tL
📚💙 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Fiction - https://bit.ly/47cWlI1
💡📚 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Nonfiction - https://bit.ly/4nng0tL
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It's #AcWriMo! Find the perfect guides and author tips for every stage of the writing process.
✍️ https://bit.ly/4qAtftU
#AcademicWriting #WritingCommunity #WritingTips
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#AcademicWriting #WritingCommunity #WritingTips
November 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
It's #AcWriMo! Find the perfect guides and author tips for every stage of the writing process.
✍️ https://bit.ly/4qAtftU
#AcademicWriting #WritingCommunity #WritingTips
✍️ https://bit.ly/4qAtftU
#AcademicWriting #WritingCommunity #WritingTips
With juicy morsels for lifelong #JaneAusten lovers as well as new students of the great writer, 'Jane Austen in 50 Words' offers new perspectives on her world, giving readers the tools to better understand her novels individually and as a whole.
📘Get your copy: www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...
📘Get your copy: www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...
November 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
With juicy morsels for lifelong #JaneAusten lovers as well as new students of the great writer, 'Jane Austen in 50 Words' offers new perspectives on her world, giving readers the tools to better understand her novels individually and as a whole.
📘Get your copy: www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...
📘Get your copy: www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...
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In this @readlux.bsky.social interview, Rebecca van Laer explored people’s relationships with their pets.
Read the full story: https://bit.ly/47hHhre
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#BookSky #LiteraryStudies @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
Everything is Unnatural These Days
In an interview with author Rebecca van Laer below, editor Cheryl Rivera asks what you’ve all been wondering: are pets slaves?
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October 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
In this @readlux.bsky.social interview, Rebecca van Laer explored people’s relationships with their pets.
Read the full story: https://bit.ly/47hHhre
#BookSky #LiteraryStudies @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
Read the full story: https://bit.ly/47hHhre
#BookSky #LiteraryStudies @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
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Open-access and in print - Muireann Maguire (@muireanndinosaur.bsky.social), Invading the American Canon: Translators of Russian Literary Fiction, 1863-1984 (@bloomsburyhist.bsky.social, @bloomsburylit.bsky.social, 2025; h/t @jrdwrrn.bsky.social, #skystorians) www.bloomsbury.com/us/invading-...
Invading the American Canon
Through case studies of émigré literary translators and editors, this open access book traces how Russian literature kindled the American imagination in the 20t…
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October 31, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Open-access and in print - Muireann Maguire (@muireanndinosaur.bsky.social), Invading the American Canon: Translators of Russian Literary Fiction, 1863-1984 (@bloomsburyhist.bsky.social, @bloomsburylit.bsky.social, 2025; h/t @jrdwrrn.bsky.social, #skystorians) www.bloomsbury.com/us/invading-...
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In this @stltoday.com feature, @isanchezprado.bsky.social author of “Taco,” explained why tacos are more than just their ingredients.
Check out the full story: https://bit.ly/3XdQPyQ
📚💙 #FoodSky #LiteraryStudies @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
Check out the full story: https://bit.ly/3XdQPyQ
📚💙 #FoodSky #LiteraryStudies @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
Neman: Book by WashU professor says tacos are more than tacos
How did tacos become popular? "Technology plus organization plus broad social acceptance across classes, and all of that happened in the '20s."
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November 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
In this @stltoday.com feature, @isanchezprado.bsky.social author of “Taco,” explained why tacos are more than just their ingredients.
Check out the full story: https://bit.ly/3XdQPyQ
📚💙 #FoodSky #LiteraryStudies @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
Check out the full story: https://bit.ly/3XdQPyQ
📚💙 #FoodSky #LiteraryStudies @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
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✍️ The Anthropocene has ushered in progress and challenges, with ecological crises threatening all life. In search of new solutions in this #OpenAccess book, Lay Sion Ng turns to an unexpected source: Ernest Hemingway.
@bloomsburylit.bsky.social
Read now 👉 bit.ly/4nlXbqH
#Ecology #ClimateChange
@bloomsburylit.bsky.social
Read now 👉 bit.ly/4nlXbqH
#Ecology #ClimateChange
October 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
✍️ The Anthropocene has ushered in progress and challenges, with ecological crises threatening all life. In search of new solutions in this #OpenAccess book, Lay Sion Ng turns to an unexpected source: Ernest Hemingway.
@bloomsburylit.bsky.social
Read now 👉 bit.ly/4nlXbqH
#Ecology #ClimateChange
@bloomsburylit.bsky.social
Read now 👉 bit.ly/4nlXbqH
#Ecology #ClimateChange
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🔓 In celebration of #OAWeek, we have rounded up 6 books that exemplify the power of open scholarship.
Read our latest academic blog post, an #OpenAccess reading list of essential research on gender, climate and justice.
Read now: https://bit.ly/3L3BTAJ
#OAWeek25
Read our latest academic blog post, an #OpenAccess reading list of essential research on gender, climate and justice.
Read now: https://bit.ly/3L3BTAJ
#OAWeek25
October 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
🔓 In celebration of #OAWeek, we have rounded up 6 books that exemplify the power of open scholarship.
Read our latest academic blog post, an #OpenAccess reading list of essential research on gender, climate and justice.
Read now: https://bit.ly/3L3BTAJ
#OAWeek25
Read our latest academic blog post, an #OpenAccess reading list of essential research on gender, climate and justice.
Read now: https://bit.ly/3L3BTAJ
#OAWeek25
Read an excerpt and interview from the editors of 'Children's Literatures, Cultures, and Pedagogies in the Anthropocene' ⤵️
www.qmul.ac.uk/clpn/news-vi...
#childrensliterature #climatecrisis #anthropocene
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#childrensliterature #climatecrisis #anthropocene
An interview with the editors of Children's Literatures, Cultures, and Pedagogies in the Anthropocene
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October 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Read an excerpt and interview from the editors of 'Children's Literatures, Cultures, and Pedagogies in the Anthropocene' ⤵️
www.qmul.ac.uk/clpn/news-vi...
#childrensliterature #climatecrisis #anthropocene
www.qmul.ac.uk/clpn/news-vi...
#childrensliterature #climatecrisis #anthropocene
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Look what we saw out in the wild, in Foyles. 'Jane Austen in 50 Words' from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social turned JACKET OUT and in rather exalted company! Grab your copy here: www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...
October 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Look what we saw out in the wild, in Foyles. 'Jane Austen in 50 Words' from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social turned JACKET OUT and in rather exalted company! Grab your copy here: www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...
"The hardest times to live through are the hardest times to write about."
Read an excerpt of 'Writing the Hard Stuff' by @nikwalk.bsky.social ⤵️
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Read an excerpt of 'Writing the Hard Stuff' by @nikwalk.bsky.social ⤵️
writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-oct...
Imagining the Truth
Nicole Walker expands the boundaries of creative nonfiction when facts can’t tell the whole story.
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October 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"The hardest times to live through are the hardest times to write about."
Read an excerpt of 'Writing the Hard Stuff' by @nikwalk.bsky.social ⤵️
writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-oct...
Read an excerpt of 'Writing the Hard Stuff' by @nikwalk.bsky.social ⤵️
writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-oct...
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🔓 Interested in publishing open access but not sure where to start?
This #OAWeek, we are reflecting on our role, as a publisher, in removing potential barriers and helping academics assert control over the knowledge they produce.
Explore your OA options 👉 bit.ly/4oxaANK
This #OAWeek, we are reflecting on our role, as a publisher, in removing potential barriers and helping academics assert control over the knowledge they produce.
Explore your OA options 👉 bit.ly/4oxaANK
October 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
🔓 Interested in publishing open access but not sure where to start?
This #OAWeek, we are reflecting on our role, as a publisher, in removing potential barriers and helping academics assert control over the knowledge they produce.
Explore your OA options 👉 bit.ly/4oxaANK
This #OAWeek, we are reflecting on our role, as a publisher, in removing potential barriers and helping academics assert control over the knowledge they produce.
Explore your OA options 👉 bit.ly/4oxaANK
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Can't possibly recommend Rebecca van Laer's CAT enough, and so thrilled to reread now I've grabbed myself a hard copy from the Gower St Waterstones. Cat people unite -- this is such a smart, sensitive, and thoughtful book. Read it!!
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October 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Can't possibly recommend Rebecca van Laer's CAT enough, and so thrilled to reread now I've grabbed myself a hard copy from the Gower St Waterstones. Cat people unite -- this is such a smart, sensitive, and thoughtful book. Read it!!
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
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Been looking forward to this one! by @rebeccavl.bsky.social whose writing I fell in love with in her Long Day Press book How to Adjust to the Dark
October 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Been looking forward to this one! by @rebeccavl.bsky.social whose writing I fell in love with in her Long Day Press book How to Adjust to the Dark
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Enjoy a snippet about the most iconic Mexican food—as seen from the perspective of a Mexico City native, Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado.
📚💡 Just published: https://bit.ly/3KwIIu8
#BookSky #FoodHistory @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
📚💡 Just published: https://bit.ly/3KwIIu8
#BookSky #FoodHistory @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Enjoy a snippet about the most iconic Mexican food—as seen from the perspective of a Mexico City native, Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado.
📚💡 Just published: https://bit.ly/3KwIIu8
#BookSky #FoodHistory @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
📚💡 Just published: https://bit.ly/3KwIIu8
#BookSky #FoodHistory @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
'Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction' is the winner of the @theignyteawards.bsky.social award for Outstanding Creative Nonfiction! 🙌🎉
Congratulations to @genni.bsky.social and the contributors!
🏆 ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/
📕 www.bloomsbury.com/afrocentered...
Congratulations to @genni.bsky.social and the contributors!
🏆 ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/
📕 www.bloomsbury.com/afrocentered...
October 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
'Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction' is the winner of the @theignyteawards.bsky.social award for Outstanding Creative Nonfiction! 🙌🎉
Congratulations to @genni.bsky.social and the contributors!
🏆 ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/
📕 www.bloomsbury.com/afrocentered...
Congratulations to @genni.bsky.social and the contributors!
🏆 ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/
📕 www.bloomsbury.com/afrocentered...
Tahirah J. Walker, author of 'Rhetoric, Intersectionality, and Black Women in Pittsburgh' will be at LitFest @cityofasylum.bsky.social on Oct. 18th!
🎟️Join virtually or in-person: cityofasylum.org/program/litf...
📘 Tahirah's book: www.bloomsbury.com/rhetoric-int...
🎟️Join virtually or in-person: cityofasylum.org/program/litf...
📘 Tahirah's book: www.bloomsbury.com/rhetoric-int...
LitFest features American Sign Language poets and dialogue on being a Black woman in Pittsburgh
LitFest features American Sign Language poets and dialogue on being a Black woman in Pittsburgh
A weekend filled with world-class authors, translators and performers returns to City of Asylum, this time with the theme “Rift & Riff”...
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October 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Tahirah J. Walker, author of 'Rhetoric, Intersectionality, and Black Women in Pittsburgh' will be at LitFest @cityofasylum.bsky.social on Oct. 18th!
🎟️Join virtually or in-person: cityofasylum.org/program/litf...
📘 Tahirah's book: www.bloomsbury.com/rhetoric-int...
🎟️Join virtually or in-person: cityofasylum.org/program/litf...
📘 Tahirah's book: www.bloomsbury.com/rhetoric-int...
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Woop! My next book, HOT TYPE, a cultural history of the Linotype and the arc of mass media, is available for preorder & 25% off at Waterstones, for my UK friends. (I'm still editing it!) It's a fascinating & epic tale. Preorders are much-appreciated: www.waterstones.com/book/hot-typ...
October 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Woop! My next book, HOT TYPE, a cultural history of the Linotype and the arc of mass media, is available for preorder & 25% off at Waterstones, for my UK friends. (I'm still editing it!) It's a fascinating & epic tale. Preorders are much-appreciated: www.waterstones.com/book/hot-typ...
Attention UK readers! 'Hot Type' by @jeffjarvis.bsky.social is 25% off on @waterstones.bsky.social online!
Discover the story of the Linotype, the revolutionary machine that gave birth to mass media.
Pre-order a copy today through 17th Oct.
📕 www.waterstones.com/book/hot-typ...
#WPreorder
Discover the story of the Linotype, the revolutionary machine that gave birth to mass media.
Pre-order a copy today through 17th Oct.
📕 www.waterstones.com/book/hot-typ...
#WPreorder
October 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Attention UK readers! 'Hot Type' by @jeffjarvis.bsky.social is 25% off on @waterstones.bsky.social online!
Discover the story of the Linotype, the revolutionary machine that gave birth to mass media.
Pre-order a copy today through 17th Oct.
📕 www.waterstones.com/book/hot-typ...
#WPreorder
Discover the story of the Linotype, the revolutionary machine that gave birth to mass media.
Pre-order a copy today through 17th Oct.
📕 www.waterstones.com/book/hot-typ...
#WPreorder
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Lit Hub featured an excerpt of Rebecca van Laer’s “Cat.”
Read it here: https://bit.ly/3IZfBiO
#BookSky #LiteraryStudies @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
Read it here: https://bit.ly/3IZfBiO
#BookSky #LiteraryStudies @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
What Our Relationship With Cats Reveals About Ourselves
One fantasy that comes up again and again: I wish cats ruled the world. When we imagine this alternate reality, all our favorite projections blur together in a vague impression of what might be—a …
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October 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Lit Hub featured an excerpt of Rebecca van Laer’s “Cat.”
Read it here: https://bit.ly/3IZfBiO
#BookSky #LiteraryStudies @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
Read it here: https://bit.ly/3IZfBiO
#BookSky #LiteraryStudies @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
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"Taco" by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado comes out in one week! Get a preview with our recent blog post: https://bit.ly/46LzC5t
#BookSky @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
#BookSky @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"Taco" by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado comes out in one week! Get a preview with our recent blog post: https://bit.ly/46LzC5t
#BookSky @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
#BookSky @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
Join author Erik Mortenson, author of 'Rethinking Kerouac', for a panel discussion at @lalabookslowellma.bsky.social, part of this year's Lowell Celebrates Kerouac festival ⤵️
📆 Friday, Oct. 10th
🕑 2pm
📘 www.bloomsbury.com/rethinking-k...
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📆 Friday, Oct. 10th
🕑 2pm
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Talking Jack - with author Erik Mortenson
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October 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Join author Erik Mortenson, author of 'Rethinking Kerouac', for a panel discussion at @lalabookslowellma.bsky.social, part of this year's Lowell Celebrates Kerouac festival ⤵️
📆 Friday, Oct. 10th
🕑 2pm
📘 www.bloomsbury.com/rethinking-k...
lalabookstore.com/event/2025-1...
📆 Friday, Oct. 10th
🕑 2pm
📘 www.bloomsbury.com/rethinking-k...
lalabookstore.com/event/2025-1...
🧵It’s #BannedBooksWeek! Celebrate the #FreedomToRead and stand up to censorship with this reading roundup👇
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October 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
🧵It’s #BannedBooksWeek! Celebrate the #FreedomToRead and stand up to censorship with this reading roundup👇
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From the stereotype of the "crazy cat lady" to the joy of cat memes, this new book is a playful meditation on cats and their people.
😸 Now available: https://geni.us/B2rb
#BookSky #Nonfiction @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
😸 Now available: https://geni.us/B2rb
#BookSky #Nonfiction @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
From the stereotype of the "crazy cat lady" to the joy of cat memes, this new book is a playful meditation on cats and their people.
😸 Now available: https://geni.us/B2rb
#BookSky #Nonfiction @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
😸 Now available: https://geni.us/B2rb
#BookSky #Nonfiction @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
LAST CHANCE! Save 30% sitewide in our Back to School Sale! 📚💻📝 Sale ends October 5th.
Discover our bestsellers: https://bit.ly/4mjeU1i
Discover our bestsellers: https://bit.ly/4mjeU1i
October 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
LAST CHANCE! Save 30% sitewide in our Back to School Sale! 📚💻📝 Sale ends October 5th.
Discover our bestsellers: https://bit.ly/4mjeU1i
Discover our bestsellers: https://bit.ly/4mjeU1i