Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing
@bloomsburylit.bsky.social
Book news from the Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing team in London and New York - formerly Continuum Literary Studies!
💻Check out our blog: https://bloomsburyliterarystudiesblog.com/
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Celebrate the festive season with exclusive deals on academic books until midnight, December 7th!
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November 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Celebrate the festive season with exclusive deals on academic books until midnight, December 7th!
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Featuring Ray Bradbury, Alice Walker, and more, 'Talking to Writers' is out now and 30% off in our holiday sale!
📗 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Fiction - bit.ly/47cWlI1
📘 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Nonfiction - bit.ly/4nng0tL
📗 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Fiction - bit.ly/47cWlI1
📘 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Nonfiction - bit.ly/4nng0tL
November 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Featuring Ray Bradbury, Alice Walker, and more, 'Talking to Writers' is out now and 30% off in our holiday sale!
📗 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Fiction - bit.ly/47cWlI1
📘 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Nonfiction - bit.ly/4nng0tL
📗 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Fiction - bit.ly/47cWlI1
📘 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Nonfiction - bit.ly/4nng0tL
Available #openaccess: 'Speculative Mimesis in Fantasy Literature'
As 21st-century reality grows more pluralistic and interpretive, this book shows how #fantasyliterature uniquely engages with its fluidity and complexity.
🔓 https://bit.ly/49hLEW2
As 21st-century reality grows more pluralistic and interpretive, this book shows how #fantasyliterature uniquely engages with its fluidity and complexity.
🔓 https://bit.ly/49hLEW2
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Available #openaccess: 'Speculative Mimesis in Fantasy Literature'
As 21st-century reality grows more pluralistic and interpretive, this book shows how #fantasyliterature uniquely engages with its fluidity and complexity.
🔓 https://bit.ly/49hLEW2
As 21st-century reality grows more pluralistic and interpretive, this book shows how #fantasyliterature uniquely engages with its fluidity and complexity.
🔓 https://bit.ly/49hLEW2
Available #openaccess: '21st-Century Climate Imaginaries'
A comparative approach to show how iconic 21st-century climate metaphors often mask the destructive foundations of Anthropocene life.
🔓 https://bit.ly/3LYHwQY
A comparative approach to show how iconic 21st-century climate metaphors often mask the destructive foundations of Anthropocene life.
🔓 https://bit.ly/3LYHwQY
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Available #openaccess: '21st-Century Climate Imaginaries'
A comparative approach to show how iconic 21st-century climate metaphors often mask the destructive foundations of Anthropocene life.
🔓 https://bit.ly/3LYHwQY
A comparative approach to show how iconic 21st-century climate metaphors often mask the destructive foundations of Anthropocene life.
🔓 https://bit.ly/3LYHwQY
New for your library: 'The Bloomsbury Handbook of Anglophone Literature and Migration'
This handbook explores how literature shaped new ways of representing and understanding migration during a significant 70-year period of displacement.
📕 https://bit.ly/3XoDOTc
This handbook explores how literature shaped new ways of representing and understanding migration during a significant 70-year period of displacement.
📕 https://bit.ly/3XoDOTc
November 19, 2025 at 9:29 PM
New for your library: 'The Bloomsbury Handbook of Anglophone Literature and Migration'
This handbook explores how literature shaped new ways of representing and understanding migration during a significant 70-year period of displacement.
📕 https://bit.ly/3XoDOTc
This handbook explores how literature shaped new ways of representing and understanding migration during a significant 70-year period of displacement.
📕 https://bit.ly/3XoDOTc
Celebrate the festive season with exclusive deals on academic books until midnight, December 7th!
🎁 https://bit.ly/3WSo6Qg
🎁 https://bit.ly/3WSo6Qg
November 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Celebrate the festive season with exclusive deals on academic books until midnight, December 7th!
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'Closer Reading: Garrett Stewart's Essays in Refraction' is out now!
In his first book of essays, Garrett Stewart demonstrates and reframes his formidable powers as a close reader of a vast range of texts: novels, films, songs, book art, digital media, and more.
📘: https://bit.ly/47EZSiF
In his first book of essays, Garrett Stewart demonstrates and reframes his formidable powers as a close reader of a vast range of texts: novels, films, songs, book art, digital media, and more.
📘: https://bit.ly/47EZSiF
November 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
'Closer Reading: Garrett Stewart's Essays in Refraction' is out now!
In his first book of essays, Garrett Stewart demonstrates and reframes his formidable powers as a close reader of a vast range of texts: novels, films, songs, book art, digital media, and more.
📘: https://bit.ly/47EZSiF
In his first book of essays, Garrett Stewart demonstrates and reframes his formidable powers as a close reader of a vast range of texts: novels, films, songs, book art, digital media, and more.
📘: https://bit.ly/47EZSiF
'Talking to Writers' is out today!
In his newest books, Dean Nelson asks the question: how did my favorite authors make it big?
📗 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Fiction - bit.ly/47cWlI1
📘 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Nonfiction - bit.ly/4nng0tL
In his newest books, Dean Nelson asks the question: how did my favorite authors make it big?
📗 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Fiction - bit.ly/47cWlI1
📘 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Nonfiction - bit.ly/4nng0tL
November 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
'Talking to Writers' is out today!
In his newest books, Dean Nelson asks the question: how did my favorite authors make it big?
📗 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Fiction - bit.ly/47cWlI1
📘 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Nonfiction - bit.ly/4nng0tL
In his newest books, Dean Nelson asks the question: how did my favorite authors make it big?
📗 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Fiction - bit.ly/47cWlI1
📘 Talking to Writers: The Craft of Nonfiction - bit.ly/4nng0tL
With juicy morsels for lifelong #JaneAusten lovers as well as new students of the great writer, 'Jane Austen in 50 Words' offers new perspectives on her world, giving readers the tools to better understand her novels individually and as a whole.
📘Get your copy: www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...
📘Get your copy: www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...
November 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
With juicy morsels for lifelong #JaneAusten lovers as well as new students of the great writer, 'Jane Austen in 50 Words' offers new perspectives on her world, giving readers the tools to better understand her novels individually and as a whole.
📘Get your copy: www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...
📘Get your copy: www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...
'Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction' is the winner of the @theignyteawards.bsky.social award for Outstanding Creative Nonfiction! 🙌🎉
Congratulations to @genni.bsky.social and the contributors!
🏆 ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/
📕 www.bloomsbury.com/afrocentered...
Congratulations to @genni.bsky.social and the contributors!
🏆 ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/
📕 www.bloomsbury.com/afrocentered...
October 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
'Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction' is the winner of the @theignyteawards.bsky.social award for Outstanding Creative Nonfiction! 🙌🎉
Congratulations to @genni.bsky.social and the contributors!
🏆 ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/
📕 www.bloomsbury.com/afrocentered...
Congratulations to @genni.bsky.social and the contributors!
🏆 ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/
📕 www.bloomsbury.com/afrocentered...
Attention UK readers! 'Hot Type' by @jeffjarvis.bsky.social is 25% off on @waterstones.bsky.social online!
Discover the story of the Linotype, the revolutionary machine that gave birth to mass media.
Pre-order a copy today through 17th Oct.
📕 www.waterstones.com/book/hot-typ...
#WPreorder
Discover the story of the Linotype, the revolutionary machine that gave birth to mass media.
Pre-order a copy today through 17th Oct.
📕 www.waterstones.com/book/hot-typ...
#WPreorder
October 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Attention UK readers! 'Hot Type' by @jeffjarvis.bsky.social is 25% off on @waterstones.bsky.social online!
Discover the story of the Linotype, the revolutionary machine that gave birth to mass media.
Pre-order a copy today through 17th Oct.
📕 www.waterstones.com/book/hot-typ...
#WPreorder
Discover the story of the Linotype, the revolutionary machine that gave birth to mass media.
Pre-order a copy today through 17th Oct.
📕 www.waterstones.com/book/hot-typ...
#WPreorder
📖 Also of interest during #BannedBooksWeek: The Rhetoric of Manipulation by Robert Harvey
Explore how language is used to manipulate the truth, how our gullibility leaves us susceptible to manipulation, and what we can do to reverse these trends.
🔗 www.bloomsbury.com/rhetoric-of-...
Explore how language is used to manipulate the truth, how our gullibility leaves us susceptible to manipulation, and what we can do to reverse these trends.
🔗 www.bloomsbury.com/rhetoric-of-...
October 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
📖 Also of interest during #BannedBooksWeek: The Rhetoric of Manipulation by Robert Harvey
Explore how language is used to manipulate the truth, how our gullibility leaves us susceptible to manipulation, and what we can do to reverse these trends.
🔗 www.bloomsbury.com/rhetoric-of-...
Explore how language is used to manipulate the truth, how our gullibility leaves us susceptible to manipulation, and what we can do to reverse these trends.
🔗 www.bloomsbury.com/rhetoric-of-...
📚 Silenced in the Library by Zeke Jarvis
Explores how our view of right and wrong has evolved over the years, and helps readers to understand the tremendous importance of books and films in our society.
🔗 www.bloomsbury.com/silenced-in-...
#BannedBooksWeek #FreedomToRead
Explores how our view of right and wrong has evolved over the years, and helps readers to understand the tremendous importance of books and films in our society.
🔗 www.bloomsbury.com/silenced-in-...
#BannedBooksWeek #FreedomToRead
October 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
📚 Silenced in the Library by Zeke Jarvis
Explores how our view of right and wrong has evolved over the years, and helps readers to understand the tremendous importance of books and films in our society.
🔗 www.bloomsbury.com/silenced-in-...
#BannedBooksWeek #FreedomToRead
Explores how our view of right and wrong has evolved over the years, and helps readers to understand the tremendous importance of books and films in our society.
🔗 www.bloomsbury.com/silenced-in-...
#BannedBooksWeek #FreedomToRead
📕 Banning Books in America: Not a How-to edited by Samuel Cohen
Out February 2026: A vital exploration of how and why books are banned in the U.S.—and what that means for democracy, education, and free expression.
🔗 www.bloomsbury.com/banning-book...
#BannedBooksWeek #FreedomToRead
Out February 2026: A vital exploration of how and why books are banned in the U.S.—and what that means for democracy, education, and free expression.
🔗 www.bloomsbury.com/banning-book...
#BannedBooksWeek #FreedomToRead
October 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
📕 Banning Books in America: Not a How-to edited by Samuel Cohen
Out February 2026: A vital exploration of how and why books are banned in the U.S.—and what that means for democracy, education, and free expression.
🔗 www.bloomsbury.com/banning-book...
#BannedBooksWeek #FreedomToRead
Out February 2026: A vital exploration of how and why books are banned in the U.S.—and what that means for democracy, education, and free expression.
🔗 www.bloomsbury.com/banning-book...
#BannedBooksWeek #FreedomToRead
LAST CHANCE! Save 30% sitewide in our Back to School Sale! 📚💻📝 Sale ends October 5th.
Discover our bestsellers: https://bit.ly/4mjeU1i
Discover our bestsellers: https://bit.ly/4mjeU1i
October 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
LAST CHANCE! Save 30% sitewide in our Back to School Sale! 📚💻📝 Sale ends October 5th.
Discover our bestsellers: https://bit.ly/4mjeU1i
Discover our bestsellers: https://bit.ly/4mjeU1i
Have an idea you would like to develop into an academic book?
Applications to the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship are open until Oct. 1st to Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse early career scholars (UK only).
More info: bit.ly/4mHlgcn
Applications to the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship are open until Oct. 1st to Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse early career scholars (UK only).
More info: bit.ly/4mHlgcn
September 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Have an idea you would like to develop into an academic book?
Applications to the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship are open until Oct. 1st to Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse early career scholars (UK only).
More info: bit.ly/4mHlgcn
Applications to the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship are open until Oct. 1st to Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse early career scholars (UK only).
More info: bit.ly/4mHlgcn
New from Object Lessons: Videotape
Discover rise and fall and global cultural impact of the VHS tape ⤵️
📕 https://bit.ly/3VlTPZi
#filmstudies #mediastudies #materialculture #nostalgia
Discover rise and fall and global cultural impact of the VHS tape ⤵️
📕 https://bit.ly/3VlTPZi
#filmstudies #mediastudies #materialculture #nostalgia
September 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
New from Object Lessons: Videotape
Discover rise and fall and global cultural impact of the VHS tape ⤵️
📕 https://bit.ly/3VlTPZi
#filmstudies #mediastudies #materialculture #nostalgia
Discover rise and fall and global cultural impact of the VHS tape ⤵️
📕 https://bit.ly/3VlTPZi
#filmstudies #mediastudies #materialculture #nostalgia
Attending the @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2025 conference?
Book a meeting with @bendoyle.bsky.social to discuss your book idea on the @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social stand!
Find out more about publishing with us ⤵️
https://bit.ly/42sYjRI
Book a meeting with @bendoyle.bsky.social to discuss your book idea on the @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social stand!
Find out more about publishing with us ⤵️
https://bit.ly/42sYjRI
September 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Attending the @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2025 conference?
Book a meeting with @bendoyle.bsky.social to discuss your book idea on the @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social stand!
Find out more about publishing with us ⤵️
https://bit.ly/42sYjRI
Book a meeting with @bendoyle.bsky.social to discuss your book idea on the @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social stand!
Find out more about publishing with us ⤵️
https://bit.ly/42sYjRI
Have an idea you would like to develop into an academic book?
Applications to the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship are open until Oct. 1st to Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse early career scholars (UK only).
More info: https://bit.ly/4mHlgcn
Applications to the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship are open until Oct. 1st to Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse early career scholars (UK only).
More info: https://bit.ly/4mHlgcn
September 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Have an idea you would like to develop into an academic book?
Applications to the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship are open until Oct. 1st to Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse early career scholars (UK only).
More info: https://bit.ly/4mHlgcn
Applications to the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship are open until Oct. 1st to Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse early career scholars (UK only).
More info: https://bit.ly/4mHlgcn
New for your library: 'Theory Across Disciplines' edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo
From architecture and film studies through to economics and neuroscience, this is an introduction to the multidisciplinary character of contemporary theory.
📙 https://bit.ly/4mkfP1K
From architecture and film studies through to economics and neuroscience, this is an introduction to the multidisciplinary character of contemporary theory.
📙 https://bit.ly/4mkfP1K
September 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
New for your library: 'Theory Across Disciplines' edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo
From architecture and film studies through to economics and neuroscience, this is an introduction to the multidisciplinary character of contemporary theory.
📙 https://bit.ly/4mkfP1K
From architecture and film studies through to economics and neuroscience, this is an introduction to the multidisciplinary character of contemporary theory.
📙 https://bit.ly/4mkfP1K
Don't forget: save 30% sitewide in our Back to School Sale! 📚💻📝
Discover our bestsellers: https://bit.ly/4mjeU1i
Discover our bestsellers: https://bit.ly/4mjeU1i
September 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Don't forget: save 30% sitewide in our Back to School Sale! 📚💻📝
Discover our bestsellers: https://bit.ly/4mjeU1i
Discover our bestsellers: https://bit.ly/4mjeU1i
Out now: 'Reading and Writing for Change' ✍️🌐
An exploration of how creative writers and readers can recognize and resist processes of power in works of literature and their own writing to redress social injustices.
📙 https://bit.ly/46rCLX1
#creativewriting
An exploration of how creative writers and readers can recognize and resist processes of power in works of literature and their own writing to redress social injustices.
📙 https://bit.ly/46rCLX1
#creativewriting
September 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Out now: 'Reading and Writing for Change' ✍️🌐
An exploration of how creative writers and readers can recognize and resist processes of power in works of literature and their own writing to redress social injustices.
📙 https://bit.ly/46rCLX1
#creativewriting
An exploration of how creative writers and readers can recognize and resist processes of power in works of literature and their own writing to redress social injustices.
📙 https://bit.ly/46rCLX1
#creativewriting
Have an idea you would like to develop into an academic book?
Applications to the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship open 1st September 2025 to Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse early career scholars (UK only).
More info: bit.ly/4mHlgcn
#academicsky #phdlife #highered
Applications to the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship open 1st September 2025 to Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse early career scholars (UK only).
More info: bit.ly/4mHlgcn
#academicsky #phdlife #highered
September 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Have an idea you would like to develop into an academic book?
Applications to the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship open 1st September 2025 to Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse early career scholars (UK only).
More info: bit.ly/4mHlgcn
#academicsky #phdlife #highered
Applications to the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship open 1st September 2025 to Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse early career scholars (UK only).
More info: bit.ly/4mHlgcn
#academicsky #phdlife #highered
New for your library: ‘Teenage Time’ by @pamthur.bsky.social
Discover how the teenager, as they has been perceived since the 1940s, have shaped the temporal imaginary of the 20th and 21st century literature.
📖 Read a sample: bit.ly/4m33waB
📘 More info: bit.ly/45nJBfn
Discover how the teenager, as they has been perceived since the 1940s, have shaped the temporal imaginary of the 20th and 21st century literature.
📖 Read a sample: bit.ly/4m33waB
📘 More info: bit.ly/45nJBfn
August 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
New for your library: ‘Teenage Time’ by @pamthur.bsky.social
Discover how the teenager, as they has been perceived since the 1940s, have shaped the temporal imaginary of the 20th and 21st century literature.
📖 Read a sample: bit.ly/4m33waB
📘 More info: bit.ly/45nJBfn
Discover how the teenager, as they has been perceived since the 1940s, have shaped the temporal imaginary of the 20th and 21st century literature.
📖 Read a sample: bit.ly/4m33waB
📘 More info: bit.ly/45nJBfn
New reference volume in The Decades Series!
‘The 1920s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction’ examines both canonical writers such as Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster as well as less widely-studied writers such as A. A. Milne and Naomi Mitchison.
📘 bit.ly/4m0JBsZ
#britishfiction #literarystudies
‘The 1920s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction’ examines both canonical writers such as Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster as well as less widely-studied writers such as A. A. Milne and Naomi Mitchison.
📘 bit.ly/4m0JBsZ
#britishfiction #literarystudies
August 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
New reference volume in The Decades Series!
‘The 1920s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction’ examines both canonical writers such as Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster as well as less widely-studied writers such as A. A. Milne and Naomi Mitchison.
📘 bit.ly/4m0JBsZ
#britishfiction #literarystudies
‘The 1920s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction’ examines both canonical writers such as Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster as well as less widely-studied writers such as A. A. Milne and Naomi Mitchison.
📘 bit.ly/4m0JBsZ
#britishfiction #literarystudies