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Kaye Mitchell

@drkayemitchell.bsky.social
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Literary academic, Director at Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester. Women's writing, feminism, modern and contemporary lit.

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Monica B. Pearl @mbpearl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's Queer Up North
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UoM English, American Studies & Creative Writing Department @uomenglish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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 .
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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
At Goldsmiths CCA in London, Alice Hattrick considers the containers we make for the crip experience.
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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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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 12/07/2026
‘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...
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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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Kaye Mitchell @drkayemitchell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Please sign the petition against the brutal and utterly unnecessary job cuts being proposed at Exeter University c.org/cgSJ8xQxmt
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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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Ben Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
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Jennifer Cooke @jenniferacooke.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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...
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The Disinterested Teacher
Cambridge Core - Literary Theory - The Disinterested Teacher
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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
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Kaye Mitchell @drkayemitchell.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Extremly sad news. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
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Marjane Satrapi, creator of Persepolis and acclaimed French-Iranian artist, dies aged 56
Family members said the author of the landmark comic book memoir ‘died of sadness’ after the death of her husband last year
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Kaye Mitchell @drkayemitchell.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Belatedly, my May reads.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 30/05/2026
‘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...
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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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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 26/05/2026
Otherwise, the article was perfect
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Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
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...
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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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Kaye Mitchell @drkayemitchell.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
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. 📚🌈
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Kaye Mitchell @drkayemitchell.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Four of my April reads…
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Kaye Mitchell @drkayemitchell.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Find yourself a cat / dog / human / Faculty Dean who looks at you like Arthur looks at me.
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Over 1,000 UK university job losses announced since January. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
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Kaye Mitchell @drkayemitchell.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
And my March reads.
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Kaye Mitchell @drkayemitchell.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
My February reads (which I forgot to post - I’m not “here” much).
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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
Cover of Close Writing: Kathy Acker, Cookie Mueller, and Love-in-Pieces by Alice Butler. The cover is black with a black and white photograph of a couch strewn with folded papers in the upper right. A shadow of a person is centered against the light from a window. The author's name is vertical in white to the left of the photograph. The title is in a large serif font overlapping the photo. The subtitle sits below in smaller white text. The ampersand is larger and red.
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Dead Ink Books @deadinkbooks.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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
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Kaye Mitchell @drkayemitchell.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
My January reads.
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Kaye Mitchell @drkayemitchell.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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...
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India-Rose Bower on The Rise of Eco-Horror - Women's Prize
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Centre For New Writing @newwritingmcr.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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...
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Chosen Family Book Launch | Social Refuge
Join Madeleine Gray in launching her new book here in the UK!
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Sarah Hall’s Helm has been shortlisted for the Winston Graham Historical Prize 2026. Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors.
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Kaye Mitchell @drkayemitchell.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Out imminently: the second novel by former @newwritingmcr.bsky.social student Madeleine Gray. Today’s book of the day in The Guardian.
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UoM English, American Studies & Creative Writing Department @uomenglish.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
📣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
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