A street performance featuring seven large red giraffe puppets.
Thank you to Lisa Nandy and the Department for Culture Media and Sport for publishing the Independent Review of the Arts Council today, and to Baroness Margaret Hodge and team for conducting the Review.
Access the Review: buff.ly/5rqvntF
Read our initial response: buff.ly/zPisSAk
Cover of We Pretty Pieces of Flesh by Colwill Brown
Late to the party, but loving Colwill Brown's debut about three working-class girls growing up in Doncaster. It is both bleak and life affirming; raw and funny and pitch perfect. It also features the most beautiful one-liners ... case in point: 'Our tits gleamed int sleet' @vintagebooks.bsky.social
🚨 Just 12% of people without degrees who also come from non-graduate families have a chance of becoming a top-earner, compared to 32% of their peers who do have degrees.
Our new research reveals the transformative impact university can have on those who are the first in their family to attend ⬇️
📣 Call for Interest now open!
The University of Manchester invites educators, researchers, and innovators to join the 2026 international conference:
Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: Balancing Equity, Access & Innovation.
🗓️ 9–10 June 2026
🔗: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/c...
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‘We may think the 20th century discovered the multi-book contract, but Lévy pioneered it.’
Julian Barnes on Flaubert’s tense relationship with his publisher, Michel Lévy:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
International Workers' Day is a celebration of labourers and the working classes on 1 May. I chose that day to publish Common People, memoirs of working class lives from both well known and new writers. A privilege to work with them all. So proud of this.
Link below.
Please share :)
New @creativepec.bsky.social report! “HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE ARTS AND CULTURE SECTORS” pec.ac.uk/wp-content/u... The report examines graduate outcomes from a range of creative subjects, looking at skills and earnings.
Full summary 🧵 to come tomorrow!
Thanks Paul!
Government backs new centre for writing and publishing in Newcastle, led by the good folk at New Writing North and Northumbria @clairemalcolm.bsky.social @annadisley.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social with support from publishers including @hachetteuk.bsky.social and @faberbooks.bsky.social
Are you a young person starting out in the creative sector? 💭
@theguardian.com wants to hear from those who have recent experience of internships in the sector - both paid and unpaid.
Share your experience 👇
@patrickfreyne.bsky.social
'productivity anxiety' is not productive
This is a great thread: 'productive and unproductive are two sides of the same coin'. Also a great article by Patrick Freyne, which is part of an important literature of disillusionment about work in the C21 (Graeber's 'bullshit jobs', post-work, after work ...)
"This is your pen, she said, and
you can make anything happen
or unhappen."
💙 this from @clareshawpoet.bsky.social
(from 'Head On' @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social)
#poetsonbluesky #blueskypoetry
What's the difference between a genie and an academic?
One grants wishes, the other wishes for grants
The long association of the feminine with the trivial persists - research by the Women's Prize shows that women writers are disproportionately ignored by men
@bacls.bsky.social has just launched the CfP for the next BACLS-WHN conference (10-12th June 2025, University of Stirling)!
Find it here forms.gle/Jmx4BBpdB7L3... and send abstracts by Friday 24th January 2025. #lit #C21Lit
KLAXON: Call for Papers!
Please spread the word. We are delighted to be co-hosting the next #englishsharedfutures @englishassociation.bsky.social Conference from 3-5 July 2025 and warmly welcome submissions. Further details here:
englishsharedfutures.org/cfp
#cfp 1/
"Nature is part of our social metabolism, imbricated in how we produce our means of subsistence. This means that how we conceive of nature is itself a class question."
Terrific essay on what and how we can socialise nature
www.break-down.org/post/sociali...
Have been reading Virginie Despentes' new novel and keep returning to her blistering King Kong Theory brought to us by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social. When things feel stale or stuck I recommend Despentes
Thanks!
If you've joined Bluesky in search of work in publishing, please take a look at the IPG's jobs board! There are some great vacancies at the UK's best independent publishers and partners bit.ly/2Zt85SE
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Check out the CFP, and calls for panels, for the ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference "Collective Atmospheres" July 8-11, 2025 at Univ of Maryland. Deadline for submissions is Jan. 3, 2025. Please share! #envhum #environmentalhumanities
www.asle.org/conference/b...
www.asle.org/conference/p...
📚We're reopening to unagented manuscripts in January. We really encourage LGBTQ+ folk, marginalised and underrepresented writers, disabled, non-London based authors, authors over 40, and writers from working class backgrounds to submit to us.
Also, if you're looking for an entry-level Editorial role in publishing, based in Edinburgh, then boy do we have just the entry-level Editorial role in publishing based in Edinburgh for you!
Deadline 28 November, details including salary here:
canongate.co.uk/about/jobs/
@penguinpress.bsky.social
By coincidence, alongside thinking about and teaching Publishing Then and Now, I have been reading Elif Shafak's latest novel - a Big Book in all senses, expansive and important (and long!) and among many other things a beautiful story of how the written word has evolved through the ages
It’s not my research btw!
