Jocelyn Hargrave
@jochargrave.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Publishing at University of Derby | Editor of SHARP News | Editorial theory & practice, book history, educational publishing | Proud mum | Lover of semicolons | Views my own.
Forthcoming publication on editorial practice in Stuart Britain. Originally written in 2022 shortly after relocating to the UK, though very delayed production. So good to see proofs after this long journey. #editing #publishing #bookhistory www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
The Publishing Programme at @derbyuni.bsky.social is holding a free online conference on 1–2 September 2026. For further information and book your place, go to: www.derby.ac.uk/events/lates... Teams links will received by attendees once their place is booked.
Publishing for All in an Age of Uncertainty
The Publishing Programme is holding an online two-day conference on 1–2 September 2026 to mark this ten-year anniversary, and to reflect on the sociocultural, economic and practical implications for t...
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The Publishing Programme at @derbyuni.bsky.social is holding a free online conference on 1–2 September 2026. For further information and book your place, go to: www.derby.ac.uk/events/lates... Teams links will received by attendees once their place is booked.
Publishing for All in an Age of Uncertainty
The Publishing Programme is holding an online two-day conference on 1–2 September 2026 to mark this ten-year anniversary, and to reflect on the sociocultural, economic and practical implications for t...
derby.ac.uk
⭐New! You can now use the following form to submit the citation information for any work you found to be missing from any of our past Annual Bibliographies. You can find this link on our submissions page for future use, too! #BookHistory #Bibliography docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
SHARP Annual Bibliography books we missed
This form is for collecting citation information for edited collections, monographs, and exhibitions catalogs that were not included in our annual bibliographies. They should be: Any language Any top...
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📢 ATTN BOOK HISTORY PEOPLE 📚 Have you or a friend published an edited collection on a #BookHistory topic in 2026? A monograph? An exhibition catalogue? Yes?! Submit the citation information to have the work included in the SHARP 2026 Annual Bibliography. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
SHARP 2026 Annual Bibliography
This form is for collecting citation information for 2026 edited collections, monographs, and exhibitions catalogs. They should be: Published in 2026 Any language Any topic in book history We encoura...
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With these final days of annual leave, nurturing the mind and body along the Tissington Trail, Ashbourne, UK.
Our final Guest of Honour will be announced next week for Edge-Lit next week, but we already have so much talent confirmed for the event - a great day out ahead for writers and readers of horror, fantasy and science-fiction! www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/edgel... #Derby #Derbyshire
Edge-Lit 12 | Derby QUAD
View our latest event: Edge-Lit 12. See what the available times are for this event.
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An excellent panel. @ruthahnert.bsky.social’s visual mapping was particularly inspiring for my own research. Thank you! #SHARPIES26 @sharpweb.org
SHARP@sharpweb.org · last mo.Next up at #SHARPIES26: a conversation on Early Modern Printing and Publishing with @ruthahnert.bsky.social, @sebastianahnert.bsky.social, Andreas Patrick Bassett, Stephanie A. Leitch, and Geoffrey Turnovsky. Chaired by @andiesilva.bsky.social! Join us in less than half an hour!
If you're an up-and-coming bibliographer, I hope you'll apply for @bibsocamer.bsky.social New Scholars Program. Apps due Sept 16. As a former New Scholar myself, I can attest to how great this program was for supporting my research! bibsocamer.org/fellowships-...
The Bibliographical Society of America
The website of the Bibliographical Society of America, a 501(c)(3) non-profit membership organization and learned Society devoted to the study of the material text.
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I hope everyone facing forced AI adoption knows about this wonderful set of resources from AAUP www.aaup.org/issues-highe...
Artificial Intelligence
The uncritical adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) poses a threat to academic professions through potential work intensification and job losses and through its implications for intellectual prope...
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Feeling very excited: arrived in Mainz, Germany, for the #bythebook11 #publishing conference, being held at @unimainz.bsky.social on 24-25 July.
#OpenDay at @derbyuni.bsky.social! Such a privilege to communicate the wonders of our BA in Creative Writing and Publishing degree to prospective students! #creativewriting #publishing
📚 ✨ The SHARP Annual Bibliography 2025 is now live! ✨ 📚 Read and download it here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #BookHistory #Bibliography #Authorship #Reading #Publishing #Research
SHARP Annual Bibliography 2025 – SHARP News
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🔊Announcing: The SHARP News “SHARP in the Classroom” Editor We are delighted to welcome Anushmita Mohanty as our incoming “SHARP in the Classroom” editor. Anushmita is a PhD Candidate in English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Welcome Anushmita! sharpweb.org/sharpnews/ab...
📚 NEW BOOK REVIEWS 📚 1/6 Richard L. Saunders reviews: Derek W. Black, _Dangerous Learning: The South’s Long War on Black Literacy_ (Yale University Press, 2025). Read it here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #BlackHistory #LiteracyAndRace #Literacy #BookHistory
Derek W. Black. Dangerous Learning: The South’s Long War on Black Literacy. – SHARP News
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It’s not too late to apply! @sharpnews.bsky.social #bookhistory #publishing #pedagogy
SHARP News@sharpnews.bsky.social · 4mo ago🚨 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 🚨 SHARP News is looking for a new editor to run "SHARP in the Classroom". Passionate about pedagogy? This might be the role for you! Applications due 18 May 2026. See full call here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #BookHistory #Pedagogy #Teaching
Reunion event to celebrate 10 years of #Publishing at @derbyuni.bsky.social, organised by colleagues @catmitchell17.bsky.social & David Barker. So proud of our inspiring past and present students; so proud and privileged to be part of such a passionate, exemplary team. A moment to cherish.
So pleased to be given the opportunity by ‘TEXT’ to review ‘Composite City’, an almanac of Australian goodness published by Rose Michael’s Arcade Publications and produced by RMIT University’s student-led Bowen Street Press. textjournal.scholasticahq.com/article/1614...
TEXT Reviews April 2026 | Published in TEXT
By Donna Lee Brien, Elizabeth Walton & 8 more. We review books by Krauth, Spirovski, Stavanger, Paine, Prendergast, Brown, Donaldson and Shank, Hooton, South, Lu, and Sheppard et al.
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Attending the Northern Publishers’ Fair at Manchester Central Library today, learning more about all the excellent #publishing endeavours of diverse publishers, small & large. Had the absolute pleasure to meet and chat with Becca Parkinson from Manchester Uni Press. Such a wonderful day. #thenorth
Hi! It's over two months until our online global book history festival and we already have 177 registrants! Want to see what all the fuss is about? Join SHARP and register now (click through the link to see program details). events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC...
One reason the AI industry (something separate though complicatedly enmeshed with AI research) invokes such hostile responses is that it has failed to produce legible public good while loudly proclaiming the likelihood of annihilating jobs in the service of extreme wealth.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4mo ago“If you tell people often enough that your product is going to upend their way of life, take their jobs, and very possibly pose an existential threat to humanity, they just might start to believe you.”
Always enjoy visiting London to see family, but equally enjoy returning home to Derby. Writing while waiting for my bus. #amwriting #academiclife
Booked! Very exciting! #thenorth #academicpublishing
Fly on the Wall Press @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social · 5mo agoMeet academic publisher and Northern Publishers' Fair guest, Manchester University Press 🎓 This event connects publishers, readers and writers from the north with a shared passion for literature, creativity and learning. Book your tickets now on our Eventcube!
Excited to be back working with Nottingham Writers Studio this May, where I'll be taking a look at WRITING URBAN FANTASY with this workshop session! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-ur... #urbanfantasy #writing #writers #writingworkshop #writingworkshops #onlineworkshop #onlineworkshops
Writing Urban Fantasy with Alex Davis
Bringing creatures of horror and epic fantasy into the real world
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Horror can be delivered in many different ways, and in my SUBGENRES OF HORROR course I'll be exploring everything from the subtle and understated to the in-your-face! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/subgenres-... #horror #writing #writers #horrorwriting #horrorwriters #horrorfiction #horrorcourse
Subgenres of horror
A 4-week course exploring some of the key subgenres of horror fiction, with advice on techniques, examples, discussion points and exercises.
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CFP Reminder! A gentle reminder to consider submitting a proposal to @derbyuni.bsky.social hybrid #publishing conference to be held on 1-2 September. Deadline is 27 February 2026.
Jocelyn Hargrave@jochargrave.bsky.social · 10mo agoThe Publishing Programme at @derbyuni.bsky.social invites submissions to its hybrid conference, 'Publishing for All in an Age of Uncertainty' on 1–2 September 2026. The deadline for submission of proposals is 27 February 2026. Please send submissions to: j.hargrave@derby.ac.uk.
