some ideas for topics: armchair tourism in lockdown; reading as virtual fieldwork; literary landscapes and mental health; landscape, loneliness and the literary persona; flâneurie and the evacuated city; digital literary geographies; teaching literary geographies online

a few more: literary geographers collaborating across distances; virtual reading communities; life without bookshops; reading with children at home teaching geography using stories; challenges facing early career literary geographers; literary events and social distancing

"As reader and writer, you and I, we are currently sharing a moment of text-based spatial interaction, a geographical event." - Text as it Happens - Literary Geography

CFP for the special section on 'Literary Geographies in Isolation' for our next issue (December) available here tinyurl.com/y8fsgctk

That moment when you find out the new issue of Lit Geogs Journal has no fewer than 26 short articles on the theme of 'Literary geographies in isolation', open access as always literarygeographies.net/index.php/LitG…

Including mine on the spatial dynamics of concentration and isolation in camp testimony literarygeographies.net/index.php/LitG…

Literary Geographies 7(1) just published online. As ever, open-access, no paywall, no author processing fees. literarygeographies.net/index.php/LitG…

Literary Geographies 7(2) just published literarygeographies.net/index.php/LitG…

‘Literary Geography’: really looking forward to reading Sheila Hones’s New Critical Idiom book. Out with Routledge Books next May routledge.com/Literary-Geogr…

NEW SERIES: Literary Geography: Theory and Practice is designed to support and disseminate work in the social sciences/humanities interdiscipline of literary geography. If your research is in this area, we'd love to hear from you. More info: uwp.co.uk/app/uploads/Li…

Call for papers RGS-IBG 2022: Progress in Literary Geography  jamesthurgill.wordpress.com/2022/02/21/cal…

Literary Geographies 8(1) has just been published, online, OA literarygeographies.net

4 Thinking Space pieces: Sophia Bamert 'plotting race,' Juha Ridanpää 'on doing regional geography with literature,' Angharad Saunders 'on spouses and (small) charges,' Sheila Hones 'interspatiality'

Philip Howell 'Jack Reacher’s Carbon Footprint: Reading Airport Novels Irresponsibly'

Michael Kane 'The Shifting Geography of Masculinity in Death and Venice and ‘The Dead’

Chryssa Marinou 'Joseph Roth’s Hotels in the 1920s: The Displaced Male Subject after World War I'

Mark Alan Rhodes, Cal Quayle, Nev Indish '"Post-Industrial Barbarians”: Star Trek, the Other, and the Apocalypse'

and 3 book reviews . . .

Literary Geographies 9(1) just published literarygeographies.net/index.php/LitG…