#NCS2026 Jane’s performance of stories from the Seven Sages of Rome collection was fantastic! Moving, amusing, entertaining- brava! 👏 Excited to chat further with Jane about adapting medieval stories for @guildmedmak.bsky.social soon!

Dr Laura Varnam@drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 6d ago

#NCS2026 Storytelling event with @janebonsall.bsky.social next! And we’re in a cool cellar! Bliss! 😇

Do you love J.R.R. Tolkien? Did you enjoy the poetry of the Rohirrim? There's lots more alliterative verse where it came from! Check out the current issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: Alliterative Verse in Arda (Beowulf-style Tolkien fan poems). #tolkien #fanfic alliteration.net/back-issues/...

Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse, Issue 11, Summer, 2026

This issue contains alliterative fan poems set in Tolkien's Middle Earth.

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#NCS2026 was epic! ✨ (As was my journey home- two taxis, a train, a coach, a bus & a plane!!). Now to decide where to put all my @hellomizk.bsky.social merch!! We’re very grateful that @guildmedmak.bsky.social had an official presence at the Congress & we look forward to 2028!

After a year’s intensive research featuring 1530s Augmentations Books, endless notes, maps, and index cards, I am embarking on a huge stitched work listing the names of the men and women who were pensioned after the dissolution of the monasteries. The lives of these people were turned upside down.

#NCS2026 It’s my paper this morning at 11am! In our paired Medievalism sessions organised by the brilliant Anna Opanasenko & Philomena Wolf (2nd session is after lunch). Come along, hear some poetry, & grab one of my #TeamMargery pins!

#MCS2026 Day 2 about to begin! I’m in Session a) Understanding the Colonizer / Reimagining the Medieval II: Postcolonial Medievalism. First up @guildmedmak.bsky.social member Marie Sophie Besson 💖

The artist is in residence!! @guildmedmak.bsky.social co-founder @hellomizk.bsky.social is cartooning the conference! And she has THE BEST MERCH! Chaucer fans! Wife of Bath pins! Come find her! #NCS2026

Fascinating to hear from @jdsargan.bsky.social about the Guild of Women Book Binders and their medieval inspired work! (Paging @guildmedmak.bsky.social!) #NCS2026

#NCS2026 Come write haiku and draw comics with us!! Come PLAY! 🥳 MODULAR HAIKU COMICS workshop starts in less than ten mins! @hellomizk.bsky.social @guildmedmak.bsky.social

Just saw the buttons @hellomizk.bsky.social has at NCS on instagram and I have never felt so much conference fomo in my life. Everyone at NCS, you MUST obtain those Wife of Bath buttons for yourself so I can live vicariously through you

Day 1 of the New Chaucer Society Congress! Check out my posts below 👇 which I will try to remember to tag with #NCS2026

Dr Laura Varnam@drlauravarnam.bsky.social · last wk.

New Chaucer Society Congress is a-go! 🥳 And LOOK at our amazing @guildmedmak.bsky.social bookmarks in the conference pack!!! 🤩

And big cheer for the amazing graphic design for the conference by Guild member Victoria Craggs! @guildmedmak.bsky.social 😍🥳

New Chaucer Society Congress is a-go! 🥳 And LOOK at our amazing @guildmedmak.bsky.social bookmarks in the conference pack!!! 🤩

Are you heading to @newchaucersociety.bsky.social Biennial Conference in Freiburg next week? Check out (and sign up to) the creative-critical sessions that the Guild has organised and make sure to visit artist in residence @hellomizk.bsky.social! 👇

GuMM at the NCS Biennial Congress 2026 — The Guild of Medievalist Makers

The upcoming  New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress takes place at the University of Freiburg in Germany from July 27th through to the 31st. Early in the organization process for the Congress, t...

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I am going to be happily busy at the @newchaucersociety.bsky.social Congress next week. I’m co-leading three different creative workshops AND serving as the Congress’s “artist in residence” where I’ll be working on a conference diary and chatting all things medieval comics and GuMM!

Calligraphy workshops are FULL! Some spots remain in humor writing, crafting events, and haiku comic adaptations (you will be stuck with ME in any of the three! Hee hee!)! Come get creative with us!

The Guild of Medievalist Makers@guildmedmak.bsky.social · 3w ago

Are you attending the NCS 2026 in Freibourg? Then don't forget to sign up for the sessions organised by the Guild on: ✏️haiku comics 🤣writing and illustrating jokes 🪶medieval scripts 📣and public events! Check your emails from NCS for instructions on how to sign up - places are limited!

Heading to the @newchaucersociety.bsky.social Congress in Freiburg in a couple weeks? Come craft jokes and gag comics with @15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social and me! ZERO drawing skill required. The link is available in the most recent email from the NCS organizing committee.

Are you attending the NCS 2026 in Freibourg? Then don't forget to sign up for the sessions organised by the Guild on: ✏️haiku comics 🤣writing and illustrating jokes 🪶medieval scripts 📣and public events! Check your emails from NCS for instructions on how to sign up - places are limited!

Heading to the @newchaucersociety.bsky.social Congress in Freiburg in a couple weeks? Come make adaptation comics with @drlauravarnam.bsky.social and me! ZERO drawing skill required. The link is available in the most recent email from the NCS organizing committee.

Gauthier de Dargies, knight and trouvère, in embroidery form from last year 🧵🪡

Demon balls! I'm so excited to be involved in a project organised by @hellomizk.bsky.social, pairing medievalists with artists to produce brand new #comics. I'm working with the amazing Dan Berry, on the story of #Guthlac. Dan just sent me this - inspired by a demon in the #medieval Guthlac Roll 1/2

General registration will be live via the GMS website from Mon 20th July!

Dr Laura Varnam@drlauravarnam.bsky.social · last mo.

The provisional schedule is now up the Gender & Medieval Studies conference in Oxford this Sept! (And I'm hoping that registration will be live by the end of the month! Let me know if you'd like to be on the mailing list for details). medievalgender.co.uk/2026-oxford/

Paper and PowerPoint finally finished. Maybe see some of you in Session 616! #IMC2026 imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2026/mee...

'A coding repository feels like a palimpsestic space [...] like the marginalia found in our favourite manuscripts' Our latest Meet a Medievalist Maker post is by Victoria Craggs, the senior designer and developer who created the New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress 2026 posters!👇

Meet a Medievalist Maker: Victoria Craggs — The Guild of Medievalist Makers

“ Meet a Medievalist Maker ” is an ongoing series of blog posts introducing our members and the work they are doing. Each post is organized around our Four P’s: a project they are working on...

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Are you at @imc-leeds.bsky.social and presenting on a creative-critical topic? Tag us know and we will repost your panel for visibility! #IMC2026 #IMC #medieval

On my way to @imc-leeds.bsky.social. Looking forward to attending the MRDS New Voices in medieval drama session (with my PhD student and other excellent scholars doing wildly exciting work). Then giving a paper on using eco criticism in performance storytelling on Tuesday with @jamespaz.bsky.social.

This afternoon @hellomizk.bsky.social and @drlauravarnam.bsky.social ran their fantastic workshop on haiku and modular comics, and their use for thinking through medieval literature 🖍 If you missed out, Laura and Kristen will be reprising this session in person for NCS 2026 in a few weeks time!

Now available to pre-order, if you like your sinister electronic medieval soundscapes 👌... libraryoftheoccult.bandcamp.com/album/yclept...

Yclept Thorn, by Hawksmoor

11 track album

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Richard Wells@slipperyjack.bsky.social · last mo.

Oh heck, it's another artwork reveal! The new Folk Horror electronic album by @hawksmoormusic.bsky.social, 'Yclept Thorn', released by Library of the Occult Records. I had a lot of fun going full weird medieval guys on this one, replicating illustration styles and layering up textures...

We cannot promise you cooler weather for tomorrow, but we can promise you cool medieval creative-critical practice❄️ Join us for 'The Craft so Fast to Learn: Modular Haiku Comics' by the chillingly creative and bitingly critical duo @drlauravarnam.bsky.social and @hellomizk.bsky.social ✏️

The Guild of Medievalist Makers@guildmedmak.bsky.social · last mo.

Looking for some medievalist creative-critical entertainment for the coming weekend? Join @drlauravarnam.bsky.social and @hellomizk.bsky.social for their FREE workshop 'The Craft so Fast to Learn: Modular Haiku Comics' (open to Guild members only) 🕐2:00pm-3:30pm BST 📆Sat June 27 📍Online

Looking forward to lots of GuMMies joining us on Saturday! No experience of writing poetry or drawing comics needed!

The Guild of Medievalist Makers@guildmedmak.bsky.social · last mo.

Looking for some medievalist creative-critical entertainment for the coming weekend? Join @drlauravarnam.bsky.social and @hellomizk.bsky.social for their FREE workshop 'The Craft so Fast to Learn: Modular Haiku Comics' (open to Guild members only) 🕐2:00pm-3:30pm BST 📆Sat June 27 📍Online