Jemma Walton

KS5 English co-ordinator. Birkbeck PhD candidate. Co-founder of @BConceived. On here much less than I used to be.

[Jemma Walton @jemma_walton]

I developed my 7-min @menstruationRN conference flash paper into a @MedHums_BMJ article. If you’re interested in depictions of menstruation in Young Adult fiction this one’s for you (drop me a line if you’d like to read & don’t have access) 🩸 ❤️ 🩸 https://t.co/UWXN3UGM0K

[Jemma Walton @jemma_walton]

@genevieve_smart @modernistudies Fantastic news Genevieve! 🥳

[Broadly Conceived @BConceived]

Huge congrats to @genevieve_smart for winning the 2024 @modernistudies essay prize 🏆 Genevieve developed the essay from a @BConceived conference presentation in 2023 and honed the work at our writing retreat this year. Fantastic work and we can't wait to see it published!

[Broadly Conceived @BConceived]

🚨 NEXT EVENT 🚨 26 Nov, 7-8pm
This month we're joined by socio-legal scholar @zaina_mahmoud94 from @LivUniSLSJ. Zaina will talk about her work co-producing research with children as part of the Children's Voices in Surrogacy Law project. Read more: https://t.co/es205SYRHc

[Kate Errington (@kateerrington.bsky.social) @KateErrington3]

I'm really pleased to be working on this, offering Repro-researchers small pots of money to work on exciting new projects. The remit is really broad, so there's plenty of room for creativity.

[Broadly Conceived @BConceived]

🚨 NEXT EVENT 🚨 24 October, 7-8pm.
To coincide with the launch of the @BConceived Small Grants scheme, we invite you to this online discussion and advice event. Learn more about the application process and how to make your application stand out! https://t.co/eWrmqFQ3OF

[Broadly Conceived @BConceived]

🚨 NEXT EVENT 🚨30 September, 7-8pm UK time.

We're collaborating with @EBerryTweets & @CHASE_writers to bring you a Reproductive Creative Writing Workshop - an online, practical workshop focused on medical / health creative writing.

Register: https://t.co/2fOpVfOT8V

[Broadly Conceived @BConceived]

What a weekend! Thanks so much to everyone who attended our writing retreat at the gorgeous Gladstone's Library @gladlib. Thanks too to @CHASE_DTP for making it possible. We have more exciting opportunities to be announced over the coming months...

[Lucy Cann ([email protected]) @_lucycann]

Very excited to have my first ever article published!

[Jemma Walton @jemma_walton]

This year’s Brief Encounters has been published! Thanks to all of the authors & fantastic peer reviewers who made this possible.

[Brief Encounters @CHASE_BE]

📣 Extremely excited to announce that Issue 8 of Brief Encounters is now officially published!! 📣

View our latest issue here: https://t.co/M59cvb6cbS

[john sturgis @sturgios]

Portrait of the artist as a young road man

[Faber Books @FaberBooks]

Edna O’Brien was one of the greatest writers of our age. She revolutionised Irish literature, capturing the lives of women and the complexities of the human condition in prose that was luminous and spare, and which had a profound influence on so many writers who followed her. A defiant and courageous spirit, Edna constantly strove to break new artistic ground, to write truthfully, from a place of deep feeling. The vitality of her prose was a mirror of her zest for life: she was the very best company, kind, generous, mischievous, brave. Edna was a dear friend to us all, and we will miss her dreadfully. It is Faber’s huge privilege to publish her, and her bold and brilliant body of work lives on.

[Dr Julia Dallaway @DallawayJulia]

So exciting to see my first-ever journal publication in the July 2024 issue of @CritQuarterly! It's a review article on Ann Quin & the politics of using biography within feminist recuperative criticism. *Open access* so anyone can read, if they so desire!

https://t.co/9p4SLpJ1jr

[Broadly Conceived @BConceived]

We're delighted to announce that @BConceived has received funding to continue activities for a third year! Thanks to @CHASE_DTP for supporting our network. We can't wait to reveal what we have in store for this next evolution 🧡

[Lorna PF @LornaPF]

I’m editing a volume entitled ‘Poison in the Popular Imagination’, contracted with Bloomsbury. I am keen to include three very specific chapters: poison in fantasy; poison in video games; and poison in children’s lit. If you are keen, please get in touch!

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Academics Panels:

1. Senior Prof: offended by time limit

2. Mid-career I: forgot about panel. Post-it note of content

3. Mid-career II: 900 slides

4. Discussant: offended by time limit

5. PhD student: prepared for 3 hours of questions, receives none

[Hadas Weiss @weiss_hadas]

rawdogging a humanities degree by not reading

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

We have just hired a 10-month teaching post to replace me while I am on my Leverhulme Fellowship. A thread of advice for applicants in this difficult UK landscape right now: 1. get in touch with the named person on the job spec. Ask a Q, get your name under their eyes.

[AR @llewelyn20]

It is transition day, so we have welcomed our new Reception class. Adorable. As I walk in, a boy smiles at me and sits down at a table. I smile back, this lot will be fine.
Right, says the boy picking up a pencil with enthusiasm, let's fucking do this.

[Broadly Conceived @BConceived]

And special thanks to our two amazing keynote speakers: support from the @the_cwwa meant we could invite both @hazard_leah and @TamarinNorwood. Dream team!

[Tamarin Norwood @TamarinNorwood]

A brilliant day at the @BConceived conference, thank you to all the team for convening such a vibrant programme as we imagine the possibilities of critical reproduction studies. Look forward to continuing all these conversations!