📢Announcement: We are pleased to announce the newly elected executive committee:

This year's BACLS "What Happens Now" 2025 conference tales place in beautiful Stirling between 10-12th June.

Send in your proposal by next Monday, 17 February - because what could be better than Scotland in summer and chats about #C21 literature among this scenery👇

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Honorable mentions go out to Kristian Shaw & Peter Sloane for their collection "Kazuo Ishiguro" (Manchester UP 23) and to Sheri-Marie Harrison, Arin Keeble & Maria Elena Torres-Quevedo for "Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays" (Edinburgh UP 23) 👏

Kristian Shaw and Sara Upstone won this year's BACLS Edited Collection Prize for Hari Kunzru (Manchester University Press, 2023) 🏆

Honorable mention goes to Chloe Ashbridge for "Rewriting the North: Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Devolution" (Routledge 23) & to Graham K. Riach for "The Short Story after Apartheid: Thinking with Form in South African Literature (Liverpool UP 23) 👏

Hiyem Cheurfa won the BACLS Monograph Prize with her book "Contemporary Arab Women’s Life Writing and the Politics of Resistance" (Edinburgh University Press, 2023) 🏆

CFP: ‘A word after a word after a word is power’: The Hulu Adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-2025): A one-day multidisciplinary symposium.

Deadline Extended to 31 July 2024

Full CfP: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Launch Event for the North Modern and Contemporary Network (NMC): The NMC invites scholars at all career stages working on modern and contemporary literatures to their launch event on 9th May, 5pm at the Lit & Phil in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Sign up via this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...