Reposted by George Oliver KowalikSam Thomas @literarymetal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Please check out and share the CFP for the collection I'm co-editing on Faith No More. Oct 31st deadline. Neatly coinciding with their imminent return, this will be the first scholarly work of any kind on a really remarkable and important band... call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/05/... 032
George Oliver Kowalik @kowalikgeorge.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Book manuscript submitted! Our essay collection with Manchester UP has a heck of a lineup! 000
George Oliver Kowalik @kowalikgeorge.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Excited to sign a contract with @manchesterup.bsky.social for my next academic book project - a co-edited collection (with Keith Mitchell) on the work of Percival Everett! 061
George Oliver Kowalik @kowalikgeorge.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Print version of Peruse Zine arrived! Link to read online/buy: www.peruselit.com/peruse-zine 010
George Oliver Kowalik @kowalikgeorge.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Finally got my hands on a print copy of my essay for the Journal of American Studies on ‘Erasure,’ career paths, and doing a PhD! 000
George Oliver Kowalik @kowalikgeorge.bsky.social · 28/04/2026My flash fiction “Libra” appears in the latest issue of Freshwater Literary Journal. It’s the second story in my Work Trilogy published, after “Influence.” It’s set on a hot day, told from the perspective of a university library assistant. amzn.eu/d/05MONRlt 000
George Oliver Kowalik @kowalikgeorge.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Excited to have “Draft Two” - the longest short story I’ve written so far - appear in grist. It’s about a band on tour, toxic masculinity, cancel culture, and Green Day’s “Boulevard of Broken Dreams.” 030
George Oliver Kowalik @kowalikgeorge.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Something I wrote a while ago on Aftersun - a film I think is a stone cold masterpiece - has been published by Offscreen. Link below to some thoughts on memory, depression, and what I call the film's "struggle aesthetics": offscreen.com/view/struggl...offscreen.comStruggle Aesthetics: Memory and Depression in AftersunGeorge Kowalik analyzes the debut film of Charlotte Web, Aftersun, as an exemplary case of form being content. 010
George Oliver Kowalik @kowalikgeorge.bsky.social · 02/04/2026My metafictional short story about a fraught mother-in-law and son-in-law relationship - "M.I.L." - has been published in the inaugural issue of Peruse Lit!peruselit.comPeruseLit 000
George Oliver Kowalik @kowalikgeorge.bsky.social · 27/03/2026My flash fiction about a recently divorced influencer - "Influence" - has been published at @litromagazine.bsky.social as part of their Future Archives project. Link below! www.litromagazine.com/editors-pick...litromagazine.comInfluence | George Oliver | Litro MagazineGeorge Oliver’s sharp flash follows a divorced woman split from her online persona, until social media becomes the site of a possible emergency. 000
Reposted by George Oliver KowalikJames Baxter @jamesbaxter1991.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Thrilled to have my new short story 'Appear Missing' out with @ergot.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/J.B....ergot.pressergot.innovative + experimental horror 022
Reposted by George Oliver KowalikDr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 29/11/2025It’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