C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings
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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings is the official journal of @bacls.bsky.social. The journal is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publication, and circulation of 21st-century writings. Published by @openlibhums.org
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Issue: Issue: 2(12) Novel Media / Media Novel (Autumn 2025) (2025)
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Thrilled to announce our new issue, Novel Media/Media Novel, edited by Dong Xia and Sandro Eich:
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Sharing this again - deadline tomorrow! We'd love to hear from you
In conjunction with @bacls.bsky.social, we are looking for some proposals for panels at BAAS and MSA! Read more here:
Call for C21/BACLS Panel Proposals
BACLS members are warmly invited to submit proposals for panels for the upcoming British Association for American Studies (BAAS) and British Association of Modernist Studies (BAMS) conferences in coll...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Sharing this again - deadline tomorrow! We'd love to hear from you
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Opinion: Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing.
Another one of our most-read articles over the last week.
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Another one of our most-read articles over the last week.
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Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing - Research Professional News
Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards
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November 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Opinion: Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing.
Another one of our most-read articles over the last week.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
Another one of our most-read articles over the last week.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
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I'm honored to have my article, "Counterfactuals and the Tumblr Aesthetic: Allegories of Reading in _Frankenstein_ and _The Locked Tomb_" included in this special issue!
New issue of @c21literature.bsky.social: Journal of 21st-century Writings, Volume 12, Issue 2, is out now! Novel Media/Media Novel, edited by Dong Xia and Sandro Eich: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1286/i...
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I'm honored to have my article, "Counterfactuals and the Tumblr Aesthetic: Allegories of Reading in _Frankenstein_ and _The Locked Tomb_" included in this special issue!
graphic designers are essential and under-appreciated!! huge thanks to @sjzavala.bsky.social for helping us with our most recent cover.
November 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
graphic designers are essential and under-appreciated!! huge thanks to @sjzavala.bsky.social for helping us with our most recent cover.
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Universities want new business models, not just discounts.
As @theblochian.bsky.social (OLH Exec. Director) writes: Together we can move our university funding away from obscene commercial extractivists and back into scholar-led non-profit models
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As @theblochian.bsky.social (OLH Exec. Director) writes: Together we can move our university funding away from obscene commercial extractivists and back into scholar-led non-profit models
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing - Research Professional News
Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Universities want new business models, not just discounts.
As @theblochian.bsky.social (OLH Exec. Director) writes: Together we can move our university funding away from obscene commercial extractivists and back into scholar-led non-profit models
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
As @theblochian.bsky.social (OLH Exec. Director) writes: Together we can move our university funding away from obscene commercial extractivists and back into scholar-led non-profit models
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
Thrilled to announce our new issue, Novel Media/Media Novel, edited by Dong Xia and Sandro Eich:
c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1286/i...
c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1286/i...
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings |
Issue: Issue: 2(12) Novel Media / Media Novel (Autumn 2025) (2025)
c21.openlibhums.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Thrilled to announce our new issue, Novel Media/Media Novel, edited by Dong Xia and Sandro Eich:
c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1286/i...
c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1286/i...
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In conjunction with @bacls.bsky.social, we are looking for some proposals for panels at BAAS and MSA! Read more here:
Call for C21/BACLS Panel Proposals
BACLS members are warmly invited to submit proposals for panels for the upcoming British Association for American Studies (BAAS) and British Association of Modernist Studies (BAMS) conferences in coll...
c21.openlibhums.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM
In conjunction with @bacls.bsky.social, we are looking for some proposals for panels at BAAS and MSA! Read more here:
In conjunction with @bacls.bsky.social, we are looking for some proposals for panels at BAAS and MSA! Read more here:
Call for C21/BACLS Panel Proposals
BACLS members are warmly invited to submit proposals for panels for the upcoming British Association for American Studies (BAAS) and British Association of Modernist Studies (BAMS) conferences in coll...
c21.openlibhums.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM
In conjunction with @bacls.bsky.social, we are looking for some proposals for panels at BAAS and MSA! Read more here:
One of our reviews editors @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social has a book out! Congratulations Denise!
Very happy to have received a physical copy of @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social fantastic new book. @edinburghup.bsky.social @bacls.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
One of our reviews editors @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social has a book out! Congratulations Denise!
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as a smaller, digital-only journal that is diamond open access and charges no author-processing fees (thanks @openlibhums.org!), we can promise that we will be able to make a decision about your submission much faster than traditional print journals.
We've refreshed out author guidelines for submissions to our journal, including new guidance for anyone looking to submit an interview. We'd love to hear from you!
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Author Guidelines
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October 31, 2025 at 11:18 AM
as a smaller, digital-only journal that is diamond open access and charges no author-processing fees (thanks @openlibhums.org!), we can promise that we will be able to make a decision about your submission much faster than traditional print journals.
We've refreshed out author guidelines for submissions to our journal, including new guidance for anyone looking to submit an interview. We'd love to hear from you!
c21.openlibhums.org/site/authorg...
c21.openlibhums.org/site/authorg...
Author Guidelines
c21.openlibhums.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
We've refreshed out author guidelines for submissions to our journal, including new guidance for anyone looking to submit an interview. We'd love to hear from you!
c21.openlibhums.org/site/authorg...
c21.openlibhums.org/site/authorg...
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one of the ironies of the push for open access in the uk is that article processing charges mean actual open access publishing is ever more unaffordable and ever more restricted to wealthy institutions, and basically impossible for colleagues between contracts. open indeed!
As part of the @openlibhums.org C21 never charges authors processing charges. One of the many positives of open access publishing
the costs that the academic publishing industry extract out of universities are not sustainable and present a substantial barrier to publication for precarious colleagues (and, in the future the govt is making, colleagues at smaller/less well-off institutions)
October 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
one of the ironies of the push for open access in the uk is that article processing charges mean actual open access publishing is ever more unaffordable and ever more restricted to wealthy institutions, and basically impossible for colleagues between contracts. open indeed!
As part of the @openlibhums.org C21 never charges authors processing charges. One of the many positives of open access publishing
the costs that the academic publishing industry extract out of universities are not sustainable and present a substantial barrier to publication for precarious colleagues (and, in the future the govt is making, colleagues at smaller/less well-off institutions)
'New proposals by Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, Wiley and Sage were sent to universities this week after their initial offers were decisively rejected by institutions in a sector-wide consultation run by Jisc,...negotiating jointly with Universities UK on behalf of universities.' 1/3
October 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
As part of the @openlibhums.org C21 never charges authors processing charges. One of the many positives of open access publishing
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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/
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September 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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/
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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...
The Novel, Recycled: On Tom Comitta's <em>The Nature Book </em>(2023)
This essay offers an introduction to the work of Tom Comitta and a reading of their 2023 novel, The Nature Book, a citational fiction composed entirely of nature descriptions copied from other novels....
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July 31, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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...
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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... ✨✨✨
July 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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... ✨✨✨
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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
June 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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
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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 🦌!
June 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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 🦌!
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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/
📅 More info & registration: www.openlibhums.org/news/816/
Dr Caroline Edwards to Speak at the Open Science and Scholarship Festival 2025
We’re delighted to announce that our Executive Director, Dr Caroline Edwards, will be participating in the Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2025, organised in collaboration with LSE, the Franci...
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May 28, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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/
📅 More info & registration: www.openlibhums.org/news/816/
🔊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!📖
April 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
🔊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!📖
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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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Editorship of <em>C21 Literature</em>
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings is the journal of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS). The journal is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publication, and …
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April 15, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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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#C21Literature @bacls.bsky.social
Start Date: May 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...
The Spectre of Austerity in Up Lit: Mike Gayle’s <em>All The Lonely People </em>(2020) and Gail Honeyman’s <em>Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine </em>(2017)
Since 2010, successive Conservative-led governments in the United Kingdom have implemented austerity, cutting billions of pounds from the welfare state. These measures have adversely impacted disabled...
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April 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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...
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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...
The Scottish Network Novel
While critical celebrations of the stylistic and thematic diversity of contemporary Scottish fiction are commonplace, few critics have attended to the implications of that diversity for formal analysi...
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April 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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...
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I reviewed Carolin Gebauer's Making Time: World Construction in the Present-Tense Novel. Check out the Spring issue of C21 Literature below:
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
April 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I reviewed Carolin Gebauer's Making Time: World Construction in the Present-Tense Novel. Check out the Spring issue of C21 Literature below:
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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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April 8, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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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