Kaye Mitchell
@drkayemitchell.bsky.social
Literary academic, Director at Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester. Women's writing, feminism, modern and contemporary lit.
Looking forward to this one! Natalie Adler in conversation with @mbpearl.bsky.social, 9th October @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social. Natalie will be discussing her debut novel, Waiting For A Friend, set amidst the AIDs crisis in 1980s New York. Tickets: buff.ly/whu6suu
White professor ‘ MattGPT ‘ whose most recent book contained fabricated quotations, non-existent source references, & left ChatGPT URLs accidentally embedded in footnotes is sad about Jason Arday’s death but still wants Arday & all black academia held to higher standards than his own writing .
At Goldsmiths CCA in London, Alice Hattrick considers the containers we make for the crip experience.
Notes on a Crip Exhibition
At Goldsmiths CCA in London, Alice Hattrick considers the containers we make for the crip experience
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‘Margaret Busby situates herself in a long line of editors and anthologists tasked not only with bringing the work of Black writers into print but with defining the parameters of Black literature.’ Christine Okoth on the trailblazing Black British publisher. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Christine Okoth · How Things Should Go: Margaret Busby’s Books
Margaret Busby acknowledges the importance of anthologists and editors in championing overlooked or underrepresented...
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Please sign the petition against the brutal and utterly unnecessary job cuts being proposed at Exeter University c.org/cgSJ8xQxmt
Sign the Petition
Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
Free to download for 10 more days and succour to those of us in HE's trenches right now. This is an amazing short book. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
The Disinterested Teacher
Cambridge Core - Literary Theory - The Disinterested Teacher
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Sarah Hall will deliver the 2026 Faber Lecture, under the title, Burning Snowflake: Nature. Writing. Rebellion. Hall will give the lecture on 10 October in Manchester, with Burning Snowflake also published in hardback on 8 October. faber.co.uk/journal/sarah-hall-will-deliver-the-2026-faber-lecture
‘The task facing a mature society is to adapt its methods of financing universities to sustaining the purposes for which such institutions exist – rather than, as at present, the other way round.’ Stefan Collini on universities in crisis www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Stefan Collini · Squadrons of Pigs: Bonfire of the Universities
The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...
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We have a postdoc medical humanities position available at Exeter on the Wellcome-funded After the End project. Are you interested in endings and aftermaths? If so, please do apply and join our research team. careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/79...
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Exeter | University of Exeter
View details and apply for this Postdoctoral Research Associate vacancy in Exeter. Postdoctoral Research Associate Salary Details The starting salary will be from £34,610 on Gra...
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Spotted in the wild (aka Waterstones Deansgate) - the new @deadinkbooks.bsky.social edition of Gillian Freeman’s “The Leather Boys”, for which I wrote the intro. 📚🌈
Find yourself a cat / dog / human / Faculty Dean who looks at you like Arthur looks at me.
Over 1,000 UK university job losses announced since January. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
My February reads (which I forgot to post - I’m not “here” much).
Save 30% on #NewBook "Close Writing" by Alice Butler, which reflects on the works, letters, and lives of the experimental writers Kathy Acker and Cookie Mueller. buff.ly/TTSh7XL
Introducing the next title under our new imprint Outsider Classics — Gillian Freeman's THE LEATHER BOYS 🏍️ A novel originally published in 1962 that played a key part in liberalising British society's regard of homosexuality, about queer, working class lads and motorcycle gangs. Cover 🎨 Luke Bird
Congratulations to @newwritingmcr.bsky.social MA Creative Writing graduate India-Rose Bower, whose debut novel We Call Them Witches has just been published. womensprize.com/india-rose-b...
India-Rose Bower on The Rise of Eco-Horror - Women's Prize
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Head to Social Refuge next week for the launch of 'Chosen Family', a new novel by our PhD graduate Madeleine Gray: 📅 Monday 26 January ⏰ 7-9pm 📍 Social Refuge, 27 Great Ancoats Street, M4 5AJ 🎟️ £5 (£20 including book) www.socialrefuge.com/event-detail...
Chosen Family Book Launch | Social Refuge
Join Madeleine Gray in launching her new book here in the UK!
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Sarah Hall’s Helm has been shortlisted for the Winston Graham Historical Prize 2026. Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors.
Out imminently: the second novel by former @newwritingmcr.bsky.social student Madeleine Gray. Today’s book of the day in The Guardian.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 9mo agoChosen Family by Madeleine Gray review – friends, lovers or something in between?
📣Sexuality Summer School | 24–29 May 2026 📅 Join us in Manchester for postgraduate workshops, seminars & public events on sex, race & sexuality. Keynotes: @crileysnorton.bsky.social, @kanerace.bsky.social & @profrichardson.bsky.social. Details and sign up: sexualitysummerschool.wordpress.com
