The ISSN is committed to finding ways to promote narrative scholarship that is widely accessible. You can find examples of recent open access (OA) research on our website. And check out a recent OA article from ISSN member @Tyler_Bradway read.dukeupress.edu/modern-languag…

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Sam - a researcher based in our Graduate School - reflects on this year’s celebration of the ten-year anniversary of the Marriage Equality Act 2013, and what this means in terms of broader understandings of LGBTQI+ justice manmetpgr.co.uk/?p=1878

Out in the wild of Woodlands! Pre-order Blackwater Press & launching 21st Sept. I am very happy!

If you’re studying English Literature at The University of Manchester or Manchester Metropolitan Uni make sure you check out our incredible bundle offers! All the books you need for your course, lovingly wrapped up and available at a low, low price… 📚

Join us for casual networking and welcome drinks on Thursday 5th October to meet other postgraduate researchers working with queer and trans themes! This interdisciplinary network unites PGRs across all Manchester universities. RSVP here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-resear…

Manchester Writing School lecturer pens cult Netflix anime show. 'Castlevania: Nocturne' episode written by Manchester Met lecturer Zodwa Nyoni. mmu.ac.uk/news-and-event…

We are beyond thrilled to see Never Was by H. Gareth Gavin on the The Goldsmiths Prize shortlist!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Huge congratulations to Gareth. Never Was is absolutely mind blowing, and it’s major to see it included on this incredible list 💜

A brilliant, thought-provoking event to kick off the Live Lit series! H. Gareth Gavin read from his innovative new work NEVER WAS, and chatted with Val O’Riordan about everything from collapsing industrial towns to literary experiment, gender performativity to NeverEnding Story.

In February I’ll be facilitating a two-session series of workshops for @outonthepage, called Writing from the Body. We’ll be thinking about how to write the things not easily said. You can book on at the link here 😁😁 outonthepage.co.uk/event-details/…

Manchester Metropolitan University Postgraduate Researcher Darryl Peers will be running a “Writing from the Body” workshop for LGBTQ+ writing organisation Out on the Page in February. There are two sessions, one for fiction and one for non-fiction. outonthepage.co.uk/event-details/…

Darryl Peers’s presentation poses important methodological questions: ‘How do I avoid the human when I assess the non-human’? Is water a kind of ‘borderland’? #IceandWater2024

This symposium is gonna be an awesome day discussing the place of queer writing in Scottish lit; open to academic and non-academic people alike - everyone come and email me to get your travel covered x

Still time to join our own Zoe Strachan & Darryl Peers for next week's symposium on Queer Form Association for Scottish Literature UofGARC - informal themed panels and lots of creative interludes! eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-form-i…

I’ve had a lot of fun editing ‘Queer Form in Scottish Writing’ with Zoe Strachan. Lots of excellent research available to read now ☺️

In the past few weeks I’ve been at events on queer/homosexual Scottish literature and culture in Stirling, Nottingham and Glasgow (organised by Michael Shaw, Darryl Peers, & Zoe Strachan) and it’s been so fun, and nothing I would have thought possible twenty years ago.

Congratulations Darryl Peers & Zoe Strachan Stimulating, collegiate, fun and thought provoking symposium exploring Queer Forms in Scottish Literature & celebrating their co-edited edition of Scottish Literary Review Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow UofG CreativeWriting UofG Critical Studies UofG Arts & Humanities

Had a fantastic time at the Queer Forms in Scottish Lit symposium in Glasgow - incredible creative and critical contributions and such a great vibe; big congrats to Darryl Peers and Zoe Strachan - open access special issue available here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/51852

New reading list! Queer Form! Compiled from the references in the special edition of the Scottish Literary Review Association for Scottish Literature edited by Darryl Peers & Zoe Strachan uk.bookshop.org/lists/queer-fo…?