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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you have any ideas for special issues or interview, do get in touch with us. We are always interested to hear new ideas c21.openlibhums.org/contact/

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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Really looking forward to our event later this evening! We'll be live posting so do follow along...

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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Chuffed to announce our online event to celebrate the republication of our first three volumes! Please do join us to hear from some our early contributors in discussion with those from more recent issues. 30th September 5-7. Details below:

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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

📚 New Review Essay: Rahul Bishnoi on Glenda Carpio's Migrant Aesthetics and Kevin Potter's Poetics of the Migrant c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

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The Poetics and Aesthetics of Migration: New Directions in Twenty-First-Century Mobility Literature

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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 20/06/2026

New review at C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings / @c21literature.bsky.social: “Review Essay: Capitalism, Exceptionalist Nationalism, and Alternative Communities in Contemporary Fiction” by Yian Zhu: doi.org/10.16995/c21...

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Denise Wong @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

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 💥

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

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.

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

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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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

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

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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

🗣️ 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...

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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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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

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!

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Kiron Ward @kironward.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

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_

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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

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...

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<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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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

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

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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings | Issue: Issue: 3(12) The Century at 25 (2026)

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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

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...

Collage of book covers: Sally Rooney: Beautiful world, where are you; Sarah Moss: The Fell; Natasha Brown: Assembly; Samantha Harvey: Orbital; Ali Smith: Summer; Carlos Manuel Álvarez: False War.

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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 16/02/2026

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...

Cover of C21 Literature, Volume 12, Issue 3 (2026), titled The Century at 25.

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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

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 🎊

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Lucy Arnold @spectres-of.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

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....

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tbewes.bsky.social @tbewes.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

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.

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Denise Wong @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

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 👏👏👏

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Lucy Arnold @spectres-of.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

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

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British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies

The association’s mission statement is as follows:

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 16/01/2026

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...

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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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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

a new monograph by one of our fabulous advisory board ☺️

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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

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.

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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

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

Book cover: Melissa Schuh, Literary Autobiography: Contemporary No Elises and their Self-Representations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)

Flyer: Melissa Schuh
Literary Autobiography
Contemporary Novelists and their Self-Representations
-Explores the narrative strategies developed by novelists as they cross generic boundaries of �ction and non-fiction
-Presents case studies of works by canonical contemporary authors
-Develops de�nitions and concepts to analyse forms of autobiographical writing that �flaunt their �fictionality

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"Melissa Schuh's Literary Autobiography offers a theoretically elegant and literarily sensitive rethinking of the fraught relationship between the novel and autobiography. Central to the book is the concept of performative contradiction, which Schuh develops as the defining aesthetic strategy of literary autobiography—a strategy that embraces fictionality not to undermine life writing, but to open it toward deeper questions of truth, identity, and narrative ethics. Schuh's analyses of Roth, Coetzee, and Grass persuasively show how these works form an aesthetic lineage that contemporary autofiction continues to draw from. This book will be indispensable for scholars across life writing studies, narratology, and literary ethics."
—Stefan Kjerkegaard, Aarhus University, Denmark
Why do novelists write about themselves? What modes do novelists use to manipulate representations of their personality? Why is it often late in their career that novelists write about their own lives? This book develops the concept of literary autobiography as a genre responding to a profound uncertainty about the knowability of the self, often negotiated through a particular concern with the writing life. Comprising a particular sub-genre and style of contemporary life writing, the autobiographies examined in this book foreground their formal
'literariness' through the explicit use of fictionality, disrupting established (auto) biographical tropes by employing narrative innovations associated with postmodern fiction and prefigured by modernist experimentation. Taken together, they exemplify an aesthetics of performative contradiction, in which novelistic strategies cast doubt on the veracity of the life represented. Exploring works by canonical and popular novelists - J.M. Coetzee, Philip Roth, Günter Grass, Elena Ferrante, and Karl Ove Knausgard - this book addresses the increasing novelisation of contemporary life w…

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

“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:

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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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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

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

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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings | Issue: Issue: 2(12) Novel Media / Media Novel (Autumn 2025) (2025)

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Oliver Haslam @olihaslam.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

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

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Denise Wong @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

💫 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)

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Kiron Ward @kironward.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

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.

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PPFD Project @ppfdproject.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

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

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PPFD Project @ppfdproject.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Proud to share our poster in the #AHRC @ukri.org & @dfg.de showcase 🎉 To celebrate 100+ funded UK–Germany collaborations, projects shared posters — incl. ours! Explore them all here 👉 www.dfg.de/en/research-... or view ours here 🔗 www.dfg.de/resource/blo...

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Celebrating 100th Funded Project

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Denise Wong @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Just finished my first novel by Kitamura and am about to be bereft, unable to read any of the other books I packed for this long-haul flight

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Kiron Ward @kironward.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Latest article up in the @c21literature.bsky.social Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring–Summer 2025) issue is Kathryn Hume on Ben Aaronovitch's _Rivers of London_: 'Magic and Power: Ben Aaronovitch’s Multi-Level Approach' c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/9... ✨✨✨

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Magic and Power: Ben Aaronovitch’s Multi-Level Approach

Magic and real-world power do not combine easily, but Ben Aaronovitch weaves them together by imagining both in terms of layers or dimensions. In his Rivers of London urban fantasy series, he theorise...

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Elliott & Thompson @eandtbooks.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

So much ❤️ for @kdclewin.bsky.social's upcoming book #TheWritersRoom on Netgalley! ‘Literary, sharp & utterly addictive' 'An interesting & compelling book for other writers and literary fiction lovers’ 'A gem of a book that I will be gifting' Pre-order @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social: bit.ly/44Ncr8Y

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PPFD Project @ppfdproject.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Nadia Georgiou is also giving a paper at the @palapoeticsling.bsky.social 2025 conference. Hear her talk on: "Posthumanism and the digital: multimodality and cyborgization in Calvin Kasulke’s Several People are Typing and Olga Ravn’s The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century".

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David Harvie @davidharvie.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

How does it feel to be made redundant? How does it feel when your colleagues go through this process? This major new report, by @beccaeharrison.bsky.social & me, centres the experiences of people on the frontline of UK university job cuts – and exposes employers' behaviour. Out next week.

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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Some @bacls.bsky.social #WHN25 Stirling conference snapshots in anticipation of the @c21literature.bsky.social roundtable: The Century at 25, which I‘m a part of with @alicebennett.bsky.social , @keeblearin.bsky.social @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social @olihaslam.bsky.social . There’s a conference deer 🦌!

Printed sign announcing the BACLS (British Association for contemporary literary studies) What Happens Now? Conference 2025 at the University of Stirling, on a green pinboard with a landscape painting in the background.

Photograph of a part of the BACLS WHN25 conference programme, showing the plenary roundtable and workshop: The Century at 25.

Photograph of a buffet spread of sandwiches, wraps and fruit.

Photograph of a deer in a grassy field between two trees.

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Oliver Haslam @olihaslam.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Get in touch with your review essay ideas if you're interested in writing for C21!

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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

🔊C21 are excited to be commissioning a series of new review essays! Check out the suggestion of topics and titles in this thread and get in touch via email or DM our review editors (@heyitsdenisew.bsky.social and @olihaslam.bsky.social) if you’d like to review any of these recent publications!📖

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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

We have a brilliant new issue for you! Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring 2025) is now available: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1419/i.... There are new articles on peripheral readings of poetry, the Scottish Network Novel, the new sub-genre of up-lit & reviews. Plus more articles coming soon! #OpenAccess #AcaSky

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