The Looking Glass Society is looking for submissions! Produced by the Publishing society, they edit and publish student works in a high quality physical anthology every year. It's a great opportunity to experience the publishing process and receive close feedback on your work.

The draft programme for English: Shared Futures 2025, organised by @wordsmith.bsky.social is out!

Registration is open now for the conference, which meets in York from 3-5 July 2025. Join us for three fantastic days!
www.englishsharedfutures.org/programme

Excited to visit the University of York next month to contribute to the iconic 'Writers at York' programme! Join us on 1st May for an evening of hydropoetic performance, collaboration, live composition, and discussion! 🌊

For English, We'll hear from the following experts on Shakespeare, Gothic fiction, Renaissance lit & more:
Dr Tracy Irish
Dr @ezrahorbury.bsky.social
Dr Deborah Russell
Dr Bryan Radley
Lizzie Lovejoy

I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising an open ended lectureship in Early Modern English Literature at Glasgow. Details here, and please share:

www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

The York International Shakespeare Festival is from 22nd April to 4th May, showcasing local adaptations of Shakespeare’s works alongside international interpretations, and making Shakespeare accessible to UK audiences from York and beyond. buff.ly/VJzoweG

Writers at York Events: Daniela Azevedo: Breaking Into Bookstagram (3 April 4pm); @brihughespoet.bsky.social Water Poetics (1 May 5.30pm); @curtischin.bsky.social Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant (28 May 6.15pm). All free & open to the public www.york.ac.uk/english/abou...

Are bookstagram, booktok & booktube worth it? Has it changed the way we interact with books and reading? Join bookstragrammer Dr Daniela Azevedo (@librarianofburgos on Instagram) for this talk @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social on online book culture. TICKETS (Apr 3 4pm) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/daniela-az...

Brilliant CfP from the always lively Revels Office for a conference on 12-13 June @antiquaries.bsky.social: www.sal.org.uk/2025/02/pape...

The deadline for proposals for English: Shared Futures 2025 is this Friday! We welcome papers on research and teaching across English Studies, and across HE, FE and Schools. We'll be using some fantastic, central York venues, and look forward to an amazing three days.

www.englishsharedfutures.org

Very flattered to be mentioned here. Also: seeking a qualified scholar to write the chapter on early American elegy/epitaph/etc. for the "Early American" (beginnings to 1865) vol. of the Oxford History of Poetry in English. Chapters not due until 2027. Interested? Please DM me (cavitch@upenn.edu).

CfP!

It's the beginning of a new year, and your thoughts turn naturally to the future of English Studies...

Join us in July for the third English: Shared Futures conference, hosted in beautiful York.

www.englishsharedfutures.org/cfp

@univeng.bsky.social
@englishassociation.bsky.social

We are thrilled to announce our Lent Call for Papers- If you are interested in submitting a 20 min paper on the theme of 'Exchanging Knowledge,' please send us your abstract by 6 January!

Read below for more details or DM us for a plain text version.

Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...