So proud of this special issue and all the hard work from our incredible contributors, and blessed to have collaborated with the dream team @keeblearin.bsky.social @melissaschuh.bsky.social @alicebennett.bsky.social 💥

Arin Keeble@keeblearin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The complete SI of @c21literature.bsky.social, The Century at 25, ed by @alicebennett.bsky.social @melissaschuh.bsky.social @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social and I is now published: c21.openlibhums.org. Working on this with Alice, Denise, and Melissa was such a pleasure!

I'm Lead Judge of the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction, awarded at University of Edinburgh since 1919 and due to be announced this month. But the university is currently withholding 100% of my pay for participating in a marking and assessment boycott. So, at present, there will be no prize.

Hey Bluesky folks. If you’re in education or just follow for my thirst traps, would you please sign this if you can, and share far and wide? c.org/dCKk9vjqxY It’s much appreciated. My university is cancelling all UG humanities degrees. We need support and love right now x

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🤓 New on our blog Denise Wong discusses Shame in Contemporary You-Narration, exploring second-person storytelling, shame, temporality, and narrative experimentation across literature and media.

Shame in Contemporary You-Narration: Q&A with the author - Edinburgh University Press Blog

Denise Wong discusses Shame in Contemporary You-Narration, exploring second-person storytelling, shame, temporality, and narrative experimentation across literature and media.

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An updated list of books is now available on our blog. Check it out below and pitch a review essay to our editors! (info in post)

Call for book review essays - book list

C21 is inviting scholars and researchers to contribute book review essays for upcoming issues. We currently have a selection of titles published in 2025 available for review, spanning film and …

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So happy to have our new issue up! So much brilliant stuff in there. Well done to our amazing editors. Check it out below 👇

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings@c21literature.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Excited to announce that our new issue has opened! c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1422/i... 'The Century at 25' was guested edited by Alice Bennett, Arin Keeble, Melissa Schuh, and Denise Wong

🗣️ Hanne Bolze's 'Charged Readings and Momentous Expectations: The Curious Case of Climate Change Fiction' is one of the six (and counting) articles in 'The Century at 25'—a brilliant assessment of the emergence CliFi as a genre. c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

Charged Readings and Momentous Expectations: The Curious Case of Climate Change Fiction

This article traces the inception, reception, and study of climate change fiction to show how profoundly awareness of anthropogenic climate crisis, and of the severity and scale of the collective huma...

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Really happy to share this roundtable - thanks to all those who were involved and to @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social and @olihaslam.bsky.social for putting it together!

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings@c21literature.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Our new special issue, 'The Century at 25', contains a first for the journal: a roundtable review! Convened by our Reviews & Roundtable Editors Oliver Haslam and Denise Wong, the roundtable focuses on Timothy Bewes' major study _Free Indirect_ (2022) c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

I have an article in the new special issue of @c21literature.bsky.social, 'The Century at 25'—working through some research that didn't make it into the book while processing Lucy Ellmann's _Ducks, Newburyport_ and Olga Tokarczuk's _Flights_

Martin Paul Eve@eve.gd · 6mo ago

A really interesting article on Wikipedia and fiction by Kiron Ward in @c21literature.bsky.social, published by @openlibhums.org. Complements nicely the article on Wikipedia and the Novel by Ryan Ruby in the current issue of New Left Review. c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

Our new special issue, 'The Century at 25', contains a first for the journal: a roundtable review! Convened by our Reviews & Roundtable Editors Oliver Haslam and Denise Wong, the roundtable focuses on Timothy Bewes' major study _Free Indirect_ (2022) c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

<em>C21</em>’s Roundtable Review of Timothy Bewes’s <em>Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age</em> (2022)

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Excited to announce that our new issue has opened! c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1422/i... 'The Century at 25' was guested edited by Alice Bennett, Arin Keeble, Melissa Schuh, and Denise Wong

So happy to see ‘Stuck on Stuckness: On the Intractability of the Present’, co-authored by @alicebennett.bsky.social @keeblearin.bsky.social @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social and me for @c21literature.bsky.social special issue The Century @ 25, out in the world after over two years! doi.org/10.16995/c21...

New C21Literature @c21literature.bsky.social special issue: “The Century at 25”, guest edited by Alice Bennett, Arin Keeble, Melissa Schuh and Denise Wong: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1422/i...

Part one of 'The Century @25' SI of @c21literature.bsky.social ed by @alicebennett.bsky.social @melissaschuh.bsky.social @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social and I, is out now (part two coming soon): please check it out! c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1422/i...

It’s so exciting that this @c21literature.bsky.social special issue on ‘The Century at 25’ is finally out! Such a labour of love, and I’m so grateful we got to work on it together for over two years @alicebennett.bsky.social @keeblearin.bsky.social @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social 🎊

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings@c21literature.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Excited to announce that our new issue has opened! c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1422/i... 'The Century at 25' was guested edited by Alice Bennett, Arin Keeble, Melissa Schuh, and Denise Wong

The final final proofs have headed off for 'Hilary Mantel', part of @livunipress.bsky.social 'Writers and their Work Series'. Can't wait to see this one in the flesh liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

We are looking for review essays! You can see some of our selected titles at the post below. Get in contact with our review editors @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social and @olihaslam.bsky.social to request some or for further info

Call for book review essays - book list

C21 is inviting scholars and researchers to contribute book review essays for upcoming issues. We currently have a selection of titles published in 2025 available for review, spanning film and …

c21.openlibhums.org

I am very glad to have been the occasion of this new series for C21 Literature. Huge thanks to Alex Houen, Leonid Bilmes, Laura A. Zander, and Adam Kelly for their engagements with Free Indirect, and to Denise Wong and Oli Haslam for the invitation to respond.

Denise Wong@heyitsdenisew.bsky.social · 7mo ago

So pleased to be launching @c21literature.bsky.social ’s inaugural roundtable review w/ @olihaslam.bsky.social ! Thank you to our fabulous contributors for their work on this excellent piece 👏👏👏

So pleased to be launching @c21literature.bsky.social ’s inaugural roundtable review w/ @olihaslam.bsky.social ! Thank you to our fabulous contributors for their work on this excellent piece 👏👏👏

Alex Houen@alexhouen.bsky.social · 7mo ago

C21 journal has published a ‘round table review’ of Timothy Bewes’s book FREE INDIRECT. It includes a short essay by me; other contributors include Leonid Bilmes, Laura Zander & Adam Kelly. Bewes does a response at the end 👇 c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/2... @c21literature.bsky.social

Attention @bacls.bsky.social members. We recently launched the BACLS 'Work in Progress' Group, where members can get collegiate and supportive feedback on academic work. If you have work to submit or want to act as a reader do get in touch! Not yet a member? Visit our website to register bacls.org

Here are 8 successful *proposals* for academic books/monographs. I am hoping that these help someone who is starting out trying to write one and wants to see what worked for me. They are provided as examples, rather than exemplars. A lot of it was just finding my own way eve.gd/2026/01/16/s...

Some example academic book proposal forms in case they help

A pivotal moment in my academic career, or at least one I remember clearly, was when a very senior professor in the US sent me his book proposal for an acade...

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a new monograph by one of our fabulous advisory board ☺️

Anindya Raychaudhuri (he/him)@dranindyar.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Books are like children in one important way - both take a village to raise. Thank you to my village, all over the world, who have helped me along the way. None of this could have happened without you. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...

If you have ever liked one of my posts, please help a boy out and listen to my podcast? Or share it with a friend? Or just play episode each muted so I get the streams? It’s Books Up Close on all platforms. I’ll send you a cake/gift/hug if you do.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, because my book is out now, fresh off the press! Happy book birthday to “Literary Autobiography: Contemporary Novelists and their Self-Representations” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) 📕🎉! doi.org/10.1007/978-... @hss.springernature.com

“A poignant appraisal of readers’ quest to find intimacy with the authors they love.” @kdclewin.bsky.social’s forthcoming The Writer’s Room (Feb. 17, 2026) earned a positive review in @publisherswkly.bsky.social. Read the full review here:

The Writer’s Room: The Hidden Worlds That Shape the Books We Love by Katie Da Cunha Lewin

Literature lecturer Lewin debuts with an insightful exploration of the spaces where famous writers crafted their most influentia...

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Thrilled to announce our new issue, Novel Media/Media Novel, edited by Dong Xia and Sandro Eich: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1286/i...

Lovely to see that Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020 was shortlisted for the BACLS Monograph Prize! Huge congratulations to winners, @drdominicdean.bsky.social and @dremmaparker.bsky.social, and fellow shortlister @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social

Dominic Dean@drdominicdean.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Thrilled to share that Killing Children in British Fiction has been jointly awarded the @bacls.bsky.social Monograph Prize 2025. Thanks to judges; huge congratulations fellow winner @dremmaparker.bsky.social and shortlisted @olihaslam.bsky.social @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social. bacls.org/news/187/

💫 My book is finally in print! Immensely grateful to all my colleagues and to @emilysharp.bsky.social , @elizabethfr.bsky.social, and the whole team at @edinburghup.bsky.social for their support throughout the writing, revision, and publication process! 🚨 (For a 30% discount, use code NEW30)

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.

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings@c21literature.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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...

We're excited to announce that our article on "Multimodality, Transmediality, and Ethics in Post-Postmodernist Fictions of the Digital" is now out in Narrative: muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/artic... @alicebellposts.bsky.social @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social