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Sunday, 28 November 2010

Vampires, Memeplexes and McFly

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This is not one of my planned blog posts - I have some interesting things lined up to say on Shakira and on medieval research at the Univers...
Tuesday, 23 November 2010

Call for Submissions: Steampink Anthology

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Library of Fantasy presents Steampink: Queered Visions of Steampunk Edited and compiled by Bill Tucker and Tonia Brown Searching for steampu...
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Wednesday, 10 November 2010

Light of my life... fire of my loins... My Comment on Twilight

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In the past ten days, I have worked my way through Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series. Although I have been tweeting my immediate reactio...
Tuesday, 9 November 2010

On Werewolves, Witchhunts and Cooks Source Magazine

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Many of you may already be familiar with the story of Pernette Gandillon, as it is recounted in both Sabine Baring-Gould's The Book of W...
Friday, 5 November 2010

Review: Hassan Blasim, 'The Truck to Berlin' (Comma Press, 2009)

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In 2009, Comma Press published a collection of short stories by Hassan Blasim, translated by Jonathan Wright. The collection, entitled The ...
Sunday, 31 October 2010

Review: Fred Botting, Limits of Horror: Technology, Bodies, Gothic (Manchester University Press, 2008)

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In 1996, Fred Botting published the influential textbook, Gothic . It's likely that anyone who has studied Gothic literature at universi...
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Jura Challenges Writers to Compose Short Story in 1984 Minutes

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Like writing? Like whisky? Then you might be interested in this... Jura malt whisky is reviving the Jura Lodge as a writer's retreat for...

Shaping Narratives

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CALL FOR PAPERS 17th Annual Postgraduate Medieval Studies Conference 25-26th February, 2011 Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Brist...
Wednesday, 27 October 2010

The Futures of Feminism

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New Directions in Feminist, Women's & Gender Studies Annual FWSA Conference, 5-7 July 2011, Brunel University Since the final decade...
Monday, 25 October 2010

Charity Milton Marathon at the University of Manchester

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On Friday December 10th 2010, students and staff in English and American Studies at the University of Manchester will be reading Milton'...
Sunday, 24 October 2010

Call for Submissions: The Monster Book For Girls

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Here's a call for submissions from Terry Grimwood that I know will be of interest to a lot of writers out there... While helping a frien...
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Wednesday, 20 October 2010

"There's nothing wrong with having to... comb your face!"

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Here's another odd little nugget of female lycanthropy. Season 1, Episode 9 of Johnny Bravo includes 'A Wolf in Chick's Clothin...
Thursday, 14 October 2010

Review: Naomi Clark, Silver Kiss (QueeredFiction, 2010)

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Naomi Clark's novel, Silver Kiss , is an urban fantasy set in a world where humans and werewolves live side by side. The narrator is Ayl...
Tuesday, 12 October 2010

De Montfort Vampire Conference - Schedule and Registration now available

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Last month I posted details of the Vegetarians, VILFs and Fangbangers Conference at De Montfort University, to be held on 24th November 2010...
Thursday, 7 October 2010

2nd Global Conference: Experiencing Prison

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Thursday 19th May - Saturday 21st May 2011 Warsaw, Poland Call for Papers This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference marks th...

2nd Global Conference: The Gothic - Exploring Critical Issues

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Monday 16th May - Wednesday 18th May 2011 Warsaw, Poland Call for Papers This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary project seeks to eng...
Sunday, 3 October 2010

3rd Global Conference: Evil, Women and the Feminine

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Friday 13th May - Sunday 15th May 2011 Warsaw, Poland Call for Papers This inter-disciplinary conference seeks to examine issues surrounding...

Poetry Collection and Launch: After All Tomorrow's After Parties

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A good friend of mine, Michael Wilson, has asked me to mention his upcoming collection of poetry - After All Tomorrow's After Parties -...