Alluvium Journal

Postgraduate-led journal of The British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (@BACLS_official) | 21st-century literary criticism | ISSN 2050-1560.

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CfP for BACLS-WHN Conference 2023 is now live!

Deadline for panel proposals & abstracts: 19 May 2023.

More details below. ⬇️

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✨Call for Papers: BACLS What Happens Now 2023 Conference✨

6 September University of Birmingham
8 September online

Panel proposals & abstracts for the BACLS WHN 2023 Conference can be submitted until 19 May 2023.

Full CfP & more details on our website:
https://t.co/qHrwtWjozb

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@CFog4 Hi Christina, at the moment the site is down due to a domain issue, we'll be updating ASAP when resolved! Emma

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Our new issue is published today! A bumper special issue of Alluvium on C21st Irish Women’s Writing – guest edited by @dsm_houston & @darling_orlaith All open access, as always. You can read all about the articles in Dearbhaile and Orlaith’s editorial here https://t.co/5MwJYtczuU

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Hi all, we are aware that the website and email are down, and are working to get this back up ASAP. Thanks!

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@HDJvanDam The domain and email are currently down and is being sorted. Not 100% sure on timeframe at the moment but we'll keep everyone posted! Thanks, Emma

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@KitSchusterAca We hope you enjoy reading the excellent articles in Issue 10.2 of Alluvium! If you are working on 21-st century writing, check out the journal website for some great research and consider sending in your work. Cheers!

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Issue 10.2 is now out! https://t.co/ZMrMsxLh4J Thanks to @KitSchusterAca, Sophie Bartle and Jasmin Lieberwirth for guest editing, and all contributors!

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@KitSchusterAca Finally, in her article "Reimagining Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities: Living in Virtual Spaces and Cyber Autocracy in Hank Green’s 'The Carl Saga'" Alyssa Whiting considers the potential of the Internet to build and break communities.

https://t.co/iSK8nNtQ91

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@KitSchusterAca Elsie Unsworth’s (@ultimatedot) article “‘Is There No Alternative?’: Capitalist Realism and Genre in Contemporary Political Fiction” examines if the genres of British social realism and speculative fiction imagine worlds beyond capitalism.
https://t.co/Yjl2liSbJD

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@KitSchusterAca Next, Orlaith Darling discusses three novels about working in the arts industry in a capitalist world in her article "Something as definitionally useless as art’: Contemporary Women Writers’ Künstlerromane and the Possibility of a Beautiful World"
https://t.co/x2e5203NaS

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@KitSchusterAca Carleigh Garcia, in her article "Shamrock Social Norms: Security, Catholicism, and Shame", explores the socially-conditioned nature of shame in the context of Catholicism in Ireland as seen in John McGahern's autobiographical novel "The Dark" (1965).

https://t.co/pJEZo1ZPyI

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@KitSchusterAca The Editorial for Issue 10.2 observes that the contributors examine adversity and the resulting "struggles, losses, and triumphs" in a selection of international texts exploring how literature can critique injustices and imagine better futures.
https://t.co/HSdkAqbmrd

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Hello from your incoming @BACLS_official graduate student reps, and new managing editors of @AlluviumJournal! Looking forward to reading some fantastic contributions in the coming year!

[Jennifer Cooke @jenniferacooke.bsky.social @JenniferACooke]

I’ll do doing this next month on one of my maternity ‘Keep in Touch’ days & I’m all ready to shout about editing and edited collections. Join us!

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The next BACLS Virtual Seminar will take place on Friday 24 June at 2 p.m. UK time. @JenniferACooke will present "Editing a Prize-winning Essay Collection: a How-to Guide," sharing her experiences editing the BACLS 2020 prize-winning book, The New Feminist Literary Studies.

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Vacancy for a Lecturer in Publishing Studies at the University of Stirling

@CaroWintersgill is happy to chat to anyone who is potentially interested in this role

Deadline 6 June!

https://t.co/5JAak8v2gW

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Call for Papers
Our guest editors are looking to commission articles for this year's general issues! More details on our website. Please share widely.

https://t.co/mqKrL6vQ9t

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Our next #MythReadingGroup Zoom meeting is on Thursday 26 May. We will discuss the #Trickster in #HariKunzru's #GodsWithoutMen

https://t.co/3BsVZdSJg0
Meeting ID: 976 8677 3753

Texts on @Mythstudies website:

https://t.co/fNzOqHPpck
#AmericanIndianMythology #Coyote #Literature

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✨Voting for the 2022 Executive Committee Elections is now open!✨

You can read the statements from nominees on our website: https://t.co/dOC4F8OwNA

Please cast your vote by using the online form linked on the website. The elections will close on 6th June.

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Call for Papers
Our guest editors are looking to commission articles for this year's general issues! More details on our website. Please share widely.

https://t.co/mqKrL6vQ9t

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✨EXTENDED DEADLINE✨
The deadline for the BACLS Edited Collection Prize has been extended to 20th May.

Further details about our prizes, and how to submit a nomination, are available on our website: https://t.co/MbENFEaQ2Q