Jon McGregor
@jonmcgregor.bsky.social
I write novels and stories . (Recentlyish: Lean Fall Stand.) There is a Substack: https://classnotesbyjonmcgregor.substack.com/ Also learning Dutch - kom maar bij mij en nederlands met me spreken, alstublieft x
I am once again asking every department head to put this on the doors of every office and seminar room in the corridors of learning
Éireann@eireannmor.bsky.social · 12mo agoMy job remains designing situations within which it is both desirable and possible to become more human, more capable of thinking and asking questions, more capable of being alive with others, on earth
Hey @artsemergency.bsky.social has their call open for mentors again! You get paired with a young person approx. 16-17 and talk to them once a month, it's great and not very much work at all and the organisation is ALWAYS short of mentors who work in games
Solidarity with all my @uonucu.bsky.social colleagues as we move into the fourth week of a two month strike, and with colleagues at @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social, @sheffielducu.bsky.social, @uculsbu.bsky.social @ducuuo.bsky.social @ucu-londonmet.bsky.social also fighting for their jobs and students.
Jon McGregor@jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 2mo agoSolidarity with all my @uonucu.bsky.social colleagues starting the first day of a 61 day strike today, including the 2700 of us at formal risk of redundancy and especially colleagues in Languages, Music, and Mental Health Nursing whose departments/courses are being closed down altogether.
"UK universities have shed more than 30,000 jobs in the past three years..." Why is every sector worthy of governmental concern except ours? Even pretend concern? www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/i-dont...
‘I don’t think I’ll ever be able to be in the same room as former colleagues’
The results of Times Higher Education’s UK University Redundancy Survey vividly illustrate the deep human impact of the redundancy crisis on those who have lost their jobs. But respondents are torn ab...
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Solidarity with all my @uonucu.bsky.social colleagues starting the first day of a 61 day strike today, including the 2700 of us at formal risk of redundancy and especially colleagues in Languages, Music, and Mental Health Nursing whose departments/courses are being closed down altogether.
Savoured every minute that Buendia played for Norwich, knowing we'd never hang on to him. We saw him do stuff like this every week and it was so delicious
CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · 3mo agoSpeaking of bangers, take a bow Emiliano Buendía
Vol 6 is still available, in all its very limited, handstitched, numbered and signed, 5 different cover designs, touched with the brilliant work of this year's Letters Page students, marked with a very real sense that this is probably the final issue glory. Link in the article below.
The Letters Page@theletterspage.bsky.social · 3mo ago‘With both letters addressing recipients who cannot reply, these authors return us to a central tension of letter-writing: the impulse to speak, even when no answer is guaranteed.’ Part 2 of our deep-dive series is here, courtesy of Production Editor Lily Simpson👇 tinyurl.com/tlp-vol-6-letters-3-4
Love to log in for an all-staff briefing at a major university and for some reason be reminded of this lad: youtu.be/6_auGsfsw5k?...
Niel Kinnock - Speach - Skuttling around in Taxis
YouTube video by Graham Foss
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Nederlanders: Als jullie weten wat dit 'paradijsvogel' is, kunnen jullie me erover vertellen? Ik ben absoluut in de waar.
Jon McGregor@jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 6mo agoIn my Dutch lesson last night the teacher tried to explain the figure of the 'paradijsvogel', not literally a Bird of Paradise but the woman in brightly coloured clothes and hair, who enthusiastically tells stories in the street. Hoe zeg je dit in Engels, she asked, and we were all like: WHAT.
In my Dutch lesson last night the teacher tried to explain the figure of the 'paradijsvogel', not literally a Bird of Paradise but the woman in brightly coloured clothes and hair, who enthusiastically tells stories in the street. Hoe zeg je dit in Engels, she asked, and we were all like: WHAT.
If you like the look of this, you'll probably want to get yourself a copy here: store.nottingham.ac.uk/product-cata...
THE LETTERS PAGE, VOL 5 | University of Nottingham Online Store
The Letters Page, edited by Jon McGregor, is a literary journal in letters: all the stories, poems, and essays submitted are sent in the form of a handwrit
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia)@mailbykite.bsky.social · 6mo agoRecently translated Soviah Khoriyati’s charming ‘I was looking for surrogate parents’, an ode to Jakarta kos, & letter to fellow City of Lit Nottingham. A post on @theletterspage.bsky.social site abt her piece & Ibu kos in a lineage of muses: theletters.page/2025/11/24/l... @jonmcgregor.bsky.social
I was a judge on this, and I can confirm that I judge this book to be an absolute banger
The Society of Authors@societyofauthors.bsky.social · 6mo ago“Alexandra Roesch’s translation is masterful in its clarity and focus.” Congratulations to the winner of the 2025 John Calder Translation Prize for translations from any language into English of full-length ambitious, groundbreaking works of literary merit and general interest
Recommend 'The Literary Lifeline', by (my colleague) Kevin Harvey, on reading groups, libraries, 'bibliotherapy', & more. There's sometimes a glib assumption that reading is "good for you" in a strange medicinal way, and Kevin really unpacks that idea properly. www.bloomsbury.com/us/discover/...
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
Whatever my uni declares, I am not going to engage with AI. I am not going to use AI or teach students to use it. I am going to continue to explain to students why it is harmful. Absolutely absurd to allow this anti-intellectual, environmentally devastating technology into the university at all.
‘You Who Wronged’ by Czesław Milosz. For some reason or other this poem came to mind this morning. Written in a time of tyrants: #Poetry
Never fails to blow my mind that something only 4% of the population can afford (or has much interest in at all) ever gets presented as *middle* class. That 96% of us are in need of outreach.
And if you didn't recently buy your copy of the new @theletterspage.bsky.social, then you are *also* in luck! store.nottingham.ac.uk/product-cata...
THE LETTERS PAGE, VOL 5 | University of Nottingham Online Store
The Letters Page, edited by Jon McGregor, is a literary journal in letters: all the stories, poems, and essays submitted are sent in the form of a handwrit
store.nottingham.ac.uk
Jon McGregor@jonmcgregor.bsky.social · 8mo agoIf you recently bought a copy of the new @theletterspage.bsky.social, featuring letters from across the @unesco.org Cities of Literature network, and you wished we'd had space to include the original texts alongside the excellent translations, then you're in luck: theletters.page/our-latest-e...
If you recently bought a copy of the new @theletterspage.bsky.social, featuring letters from across the @unesco.org Cities of Literature network, and you wished we'd had space to include the original texts alongside the excellent translations, then you're in luck: theletters.page/our-latest-e...
Our Latest Edition: Volume 5
The Letters Page, Vol. 5 comes to you as a collection of translated letters written by authors based in UNESCO Cities of Literature who are, like Nottingham, celebrating ten years of their City of …
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Ik kijk er zo naar uit. Mag ik dit jaar voor de eerste keer de sluis open? Ik weet het niet. Ik kan maar alleen hopen.
Sarah Archer@sarcher.bsky.social · 8mo agoSomething to look forward to: on March 2, 2026, the Fish Doorbell comes back online @visdeurbel.bsky.social visdeurbel.nl/en/
“Tax. The. Rich.” - 38 Degrees’ CEO Matthew McGregor The public knows what they want: fair taxes, stronger public services, and the ultra-wealthy paying their share. The Government must listen when they reveal their plans in Wednesday’s budget.
Please sign and help to save my former department! Goodness knows this is no time to stop teaching about and researching North America! www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
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Hello poetry friends. I'm looking, for a thing, for examples of poems that quote from TV characters in a way that makes it clear they're doing so without resorting to eg footnotes or similar. Any suggestions? I feel like I've seen it, but my mind is blanker than a blankety blank.
