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Brontë Schiltz
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Brontë Schiltz @bronteschiltz.bsky.social · Jan 14
I was thrilled to be asked to contribute a story to this collection!

Preorder your copy ⬇️
commapress.bsky.social Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social · Jan 14
9 years ago we lost Mark Fisher, whose work offers perhaps the best diagnosis of the situation we find ourselves in.

In his memory, we've tasked authors with using Fisher's ideas as a jumping off point for all-new horror fictions.

📘THE MONSTER, CAPITAL (Feb 26)

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Praise for our book Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene, @greavesian.bsky.social's definitive exploration of the classic Play for Today from script to screen. Available now from tenacrebooks.co.uk
Cover of Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene. ‘Astonishing. I enjoyed a deeper working involvement in the making of the film than most authors are granted — but even so, there was so much going on that I didn’t know. Thank you for teaching me’ David Rudkin ‘Indispensable. It left me longing to see the film again and wishing that television today had room for works of such outstanding individual imagination’ Michael Billington ‘A comprehensive, immersive deep dive into the creation of David Rudkin and Alan Clarke’s massively influential and hallucinatory coming-of-age story. Highly recommended!’ Grant Morrison ‘Play for Today was, for many years, the most exciting strand in British television and Penda’s Fen is one of its most remarkable highpoints: visionary, original and under perfect control’ David Hare ‘A welcome revelation of insight, background and new resonances to Clarke’s masterwork’ Jim O'Rourke ***** ‘Surely the definitive statement on Penda’s Fen’ SFX Magazine ‘A first-class read. It is like witnessing a first-class documentary in written form’ Spencer Banks
February 14, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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Working, not begging.
Vendors buy the Big Issue for £2.50 and sell it for £5.

If you pay for the magazine, please take it. It's dignity for the vendor, and it keeps Big Issue alive.
February 15, 2026 at 5:53 AM
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This week, marking 100 years since the invention of TV, our special edition dives deep into the ways people make, and consume, television, and what lies ahead.

Plus: welfare reforms, Richard Linklater, Jacqueline Wilson, and much more.

Find your local vendor: https://bit.ly/4c3eLdE
February 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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After Manchester vendor Nathan got out of jail, selling The Big Issue helped him to turn his life around for his family and pets.

Please help us to change more lives today. To donate, text BINORTH to 70970 to give £5, or go to https://easydonate.org/big-issue-north/binorth

Thank you.
February 15, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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igagoths.bsky.social
The call for nominations for The Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize for a Monograph of Gothic Criticism 2026 and The Justin D. Edwards Memorial Prize for an Edited Collection of Gothic Criticism 2026 is now open!

Submit by March 2nd: www.globalgoth.org/blog/call-fo...
Call for nominations for the IGA Book Prizes - Gothic Association
Call for nominations by March 2nd for The Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize for a Monograph of Gothic Criticism, 2026 and The Justin D. Edwards Memorial Prize for an Edited Collection of Gothic Critici...
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February 13, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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Beloved children’s author Jacqueline Wilson hopes her Imagine festival will inspire a new generation of readers.
Children's author Jacqueline Wilson: 'Reading is in danger'
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February 13, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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Misconceptions aren’t a rare occurrence for those at risk of homelessness. In 2023, YouGov found that 32% of people think that ‘most homeless people have themselves to blame’.
Organisations such as @bigissuenorth.bsky.social and INSP are fighting back: www.insp.ngo/articles/liv...
February 10, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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For vendors like Vasile, selling The Big Issue means more than earning an income - it also gives him self-respect and pride in his work.

Please help us to change more lives today. To donate, text BINORTH to 70970 to give £5, or go to https://easydonate.org/big-issue-north/binorth

Thank you.
February 8, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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What a delight it was getting to interview Jacqueline Wilson - one of my childhood heroes!
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Beloved children’s author Jacqueline Wilson hopes her Imagine festival will inspire a new generation of readers.
Children's author Jacqueline Wilson: 'Reading is in danger'
www.bigissue.com
February 8, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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Beloved children’s author Jacqueline Wilson hopes her Imagine festival will inspire a new generation of readers.
Children's author Jacqueline Wilson: 'Reading is in danger'
www.bigissue.com
February 7, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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theinsp.bsky.social
Join us from 6pm on Thursday 17 February at The Social Hub, Glasgow for the launch of a new report that celebrates the impact of our Changing the Narrative Journalism Training Academy: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/insp-chang...
INSP Changing the Narrative Report Launch
Join the International Network of Street Papers (INSP) to celebrate the impact of the Changing the Narrative Journalism Academy
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February 4, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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Join me for The Bonehouse - a ghost story, streamed live on Zoom. Thurs 12 February, 7.15pm. Pay what you feel...

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The Bonehouse: A Live-Streamed Ghost Story
A live-streamed performed reading of an original tale of terror
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February 4, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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bigissuenorth.bsky.social
After Leeds vendor Martin escaped an abusive relationship, selling The Big Issue helped him to rebuild his life.

Please help us to change more lives today. To donate, text BINORTH to 70970 to give £5, or go to https://easydonate.org/big-issue-north/binorth

Thank you.
February 1, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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igagoths.bsky.social
On request, the deadline for abstract submissions has been extended to 13 February, so you have two more weeks to get yours in!

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January 30, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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Read about Doctor Who's conception, from first ideas to its troubled early months of production, in Pull to Open, an immersive history by @paul-hayes.bsky.social, available now from tenacrebooks.co.uk.
Cover of Pull to Open: The Inside Story of How the BBC Created and Launched Doctor Who.
January 30, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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commapress.bsky.social
QUEER FICTION WRITERS' DAY ✍️

📅 MAR 1 (11-2pm)

📍 Chorlton Library, M21 9PN

🎫 FREE ENTRY www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-fict...

Join us for a Queer Fiction workshop led by @cdelull.bsky.social, followed by a panel, readings & Q&A w/ @adambeyoncelowe.bsky.social & another writer TBA.
January 29, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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igagoths.bsky.social
Planning to attend our conference in July? Don’t forget that you need an active IGA membership!

Members get a monthly newsletter, listing on our interactive Goth Map, subscription to @gothicstudies.bsky.social and more, with prices starting at just £6!

Join us: www.globalgoth.org/join/
January 30, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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Gothic Studies is recruiting! We seek a new assistant editor 🧛‍♂️
Advert for assistant editor post
January 27, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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Hi everyone, I'm organising a conference in Leuven, 4-5 June, and you're all invited*! It's called 'Performing evil: the mediation and display of diabolic spectres 1700-2000' and here is the call for papers (get in touch if you'd like a pdf!). Please share widely!

*to submit an abstract before 21/3
CALL FOR PAPERS: PERFORMING EVIL: the mediation and display of diabolic spectres, 1700-2000'. 4 & 5 June 2026, Leuven. This conference explores the tangled histories of supernatural, diabolic evil and all kinds of spectral apparitions in the last three centuries – Walter Scott’s ‘malignant and unhappy beings’. Specifically, it is interested in how and why ghosts, spirits and related apparitional phenomena were framed as diabolic, demonic or malign manifestations from the afterlife. Diabolic connotations of ghosts and spirits did meaningful cultural work. They were mobilised to discredit ghost beliefs and spiritual practices, to delegitimise competing beliefs, or to invest doctrinal arguments with occult authority. They could also function as tools of scepticism and ridicule as well as triggers of wonder, fear and religiosity. Put differently, the nexus of ghosts and evil is deeply historical. And it was often articulated through performative means: in gestures and expressions of (dis)belief, in visual and textual representations, in séance rooms, on the stage and on the page. Emerging from this nexus are theatrical spirits of evil, staged, embodied, and made legible through mediation and display. In this sense, every ghost is a theatrical ghost. Through the focus on the construction and staging of diabolic spirits, this conference aims to develop a methodological framework for studying historical forms of occultism and demonology more broadly in terms of performance. Exploring how the relationship of spectrality and evil has shifted in shape over time and across different cultures, the conference invites contributions that can consider a wide range of historical actors – clerics, mediums, ghost-hunters, debunkers, necromancers, stage performers, eyewitnesses. This conference aims to study cultural intersections and interactions to arrive at a more granular understanding of discursive, practical and material connections between spirits and evil. At the same time this lens zooms out, making visible broader dynamics of knowledge construction in specific historical moments. How, for instance, did hauntings and possessions shape communities and audiences? How did religious or folkloric ideas about the devil inform spectral encounters? We hope to bring together historians, art historians, theatre and literary scholars, folklorists and anthropologists from every stage in their career around the above questions. We welcome 20-minute papers on topics that include but are by no means limited to: - making spectral evil visible: performance, arts, media, technologies, popular cultures - making spectral evil invisible: popular and occult knowledge circulation - performing (un)belief: practices and rhetoric, summoning and debunking on the stage (from popular stages to the lecture hall and the laboratory) - materiality of spectres: the function of bodies and objects - diabolic spirits and (intellectual, vernacular, theological, folkloric) ideas about morality, mortality and temporality - occult performance and ‘cultural scripts’ of ghost encounters (from necromancy to poltergeists) - affect and emotions: fear, grief, trauma… and hope Send abstracts (c.250 words) and bios (c.100 words) to kristof.smeyers@kuleuven.be before 21 March 2026. Please do get in touch if you have any questions.
January 27, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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Looking forward to speaking at the 'Trans-scriptions: Cultural Codings and the Poetics of the Body' in a couple of weeks. And what a gorgeous poster their team has come up with! #bodyhorror #conference wordpre150.wordpress.com
January 30, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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bigissuenorth.bsky.social
Your generous donations helped us to give Prestwich vendor Joe a card reader and new furniture to help him to turn his life around.

Please help us to change more lives today. To donate, text BINORTH to 70970 to give £5, or go to https://easydonate.org/big-issue-north/binorth

Thank you.
January 29, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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igagoths.bsky.social
Tomorrow’s the final day to get your abstract in for this year’s IGA, ‘Gothic Selves/Artificial Others’, to be held at the @universityofhull.bsky.social, UK from 28-31 July.

You can find more details at hullgothic.wordpress.com/cfp/
January 29, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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JOIN ME on Thursday 12 February for THE BONEHOUSE - a live-streamed ghost story. Tickets are Pay What You Decide and are available at the link in the image. Book now!
January 28, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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theinsp.bsky.social
Holly Norris, 73, has lived unsheltered for more than a decade. Her story cuts through one of the most common myths about homelessness: that people living on the streets choose to be there. @denvervoice.bsky.social reports: www.insp.ngo/articles/liv...
January 28, 2026 at 11:36 AM
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Join @gothicstudies.bsky.social as our new Assistant Editor!

Deadline Monday 9th March.
Annual honorarium of £200.

More information in attached image, via the @igagoths.bsky.social newsletter or you can message me and I can send you the text if preferred.
January 27, 2026 at 2:49 PM