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Victorian Popular Fictions Journal retweeted
Your reminder to become a VPFA member so you can attend our Virtual Tea Salon next month! ☕️✨️
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The Editors of Victorian Popular Fictions are looking for guest editors for autumn special issues from 2027 - 2030. Please see the attached CFP. The deadline for proposals is 30th September 2025, and we are happy to take any queries, please just email us at [email protected].
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We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 VPFA Second Book Prize:
Tara MacDonald, Narrative, Affect, and Victorian Sensation: Wilful Bodies (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Prof. MacDonald will receive a £200 cash prize and be honoured at the Annual Conference AGM.
The show will start at 17:00 on Wednesday, 16 July at the Birmingham & Midland Institute. @bmi1854 members are welcome - booking information is available on the BMI website.
In addition to an array of fabulous panels, VPFA 2025 welcomes magic lanternist Jeremy Brooker to offer delegates a unique opportunity to step back into the C19th and enjoy a show of magic & spectacle.
Hurry - conference registration closes at 5pm on 8/07 victorianpopularfiction.org/…
Victorian Popular Fictions Journal retweeted
There is still just time to submit your proposal for this year's conference!
Send 250 word proposals by 1st March. Full details here: victorianpopularfiction.org/…
The 17th Annual Conference of the VPFA
'Heights, Depths, and Extremes'
BMI, Birmingham UK, 14th-16th July 2025
📢 CFP for a special issue on poisons and poisoning in C19th popular fiction, guest edited by @MLbrnd and Sarah Frühwirth. Deadline for proposals is 30/04/2025.
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Victorian Popular Fictions Journal retweeted
#RSVPDigEv is ready for 2025! Join us Friday, Jan. 17 at 8am PT/11am ET/4pm UK/5pm CET for a book launch of The Edinburgh Companion to British Colonial Periodicals (2024)! We'll hear from the editors and several contributors, and hope to see you there too!
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Delighted to announce the publication of Volume 6 Issue 2 of Victorian Popular Fictions - a special issue on Victorian Transfictions and Transmedia Storytelling, edited by Erica Haugtvedt and Beth Palmer.
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Victorian Popular Fictions Journal retweeted
📢Just a friendly reminder that @DrHorrocks and the Punch's Pocket Book team would like your proposals for a special issue of @VPReditors by THIS Friday, Nov. 22! See the full CFP here: rs4vp.org/upcoming-special-i…
The works submitted for consideration for the 2024 VPFA Second Book Prize should have been published in 2023 or 2024.
Any VPFA member can submit a book for consideration. Authors are allowed to submit their own work.
Full submission details on the VPFA website 4/4
Works on neo-Victorian popular writing, which help us better understand Victorian popular literature or culture, will also be considered. We also accept volumes of critical essays and jointly authored monographs for submission. 3/4
Works eligible for this Prize will be scholarly monographs about nineteenth-century literary writers, groups or works which, specifically and explicitly, deal with the ‘popular’ paradigm. 2/4
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Submissions are open for the VPFA Second Book Prize, an Award aimed at scholars at any stage of their career.
*Deadline 31st December 2024*
We're also delighted to announce the VPFA Second Book prize! Full details here: victorianpopularfiction.org/…
Good news! There’s still time to submit an abstract for the 2025 Romance, Revolution & Reform conference, ‘Play in the Long Nineteenth Century’.
The conference will take place on 17 January 2025 @UniKent.
CfP closes Monday 18 November 2024.
We’re delighted to announce that the Call for Papers for the annual RRR conference is now live!
‘Play in the Long Nineteenth Century’ will take place on 17 January 2025 @UniKent.
CfP closes Monday 18 November 2024.
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Victorian Popular Fictions Journal retweeted
A great event for PGR/ECR in Gothic studies, adaptation studies, Victorian studies and neo-Victorian studies! Deadline for abstracts: 1 Sept! @NVSjournal @VictorianScot @VPFJournal @GothicStudies @gothicmmu @adaptstudies @Adaptation_SIG
Here it is - join us for
👻Spectres of #Gothic Literature: Reflections, Reworkings, Reinventions
🗓 November 28, 2024
🌐free & online (CET)
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The @VPFA1 Mary Eliza Root prize supports research at Gladstone’s library. The prize funds two nights’ accommodation (Dec - Feb) at @gladlib Applications now open - deadline 30th September 2024.
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This is sure to be of interest to our readers! If you work in that area and would like to review ‘Sensation Fiction and Modernity’ for the journal then please get in touch victorianpopularfiction.org/…
Okay, it is a little bit exciting to have promo for my book as part of the pack for a conference I've been to for many years now #VPFAplaces
