The VPFA Mary Eliza Root prize supports research at Gladstone’s library. The prize funds two nights’ accommodation (Dec - Feb) at Gladstone's Library Applications now open - deadline 30th September 2024. victorianpopularfiction.org/mary-eliza-roo…

A great event for PGR/ECR in Gothic studies, adaptation studies, Victorian studies and neo-Victorian studies! Deadline for abstracts: 1 Sept! Neo-Victorian Studies Scottish Centre for Victorian&NeoVictorian Studies Victorian Popular Fictions Journal Gothic Studies The Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies Association of Adaptation Studies BAFTSS Adaptation

Good news! There’s still time to submit an abstract for the 2025 Romance, Revolution & Reform conference, ‘Play in the Long Nineteenth Century’. The conference will take place on 17 January 2025 University of Kent. CfP closes Monday 18 November 2024.

📢Just a friendly reminder that Dr Clare Horrocks and the Punch's Pocket Book team would like your proposals for a special issue of VPR by THIS Friday, Nov. 22! See the full CFP here: rs4vp.org/upcoming-speci…

#RSVPDigEv is ready for 2025! Join us Friday, Jan. 17 at 8am PT/11am ET/4pm UK/5pm CET for a book launch of The Edinburgh Companion to British Colonial Periodicals (2024)! We'll hear from the editors and several contributors, and hope to see you there too! rs4vp.org/new-year-a-new…

📢 CFP for a special issue on poisons and poisoning in C19th popular fiction, guest edited by Dr Manon Burz-Labrande and Sarah Frühwirth. Deadline for proposals is 30/04/2025. Please share widely - Full details: victorianpopularfiction.org/wp-content/upl…

There is still just time to submit your proposal for this year's conference! Send 250 word proposals by 1st March. Full details here: victorianpopularfiction.org/vpfa-annual-co… The 17th Annual Conference of the VPFA 'Heights, Depths, and Extremes' BMI, Birmingham UK, 14th-16th July 2025

We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 VPFA Second Book Prize: Tara MacDonald, Narrative, Affect, and Victorian Sensation: Wilful Bodies (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Prof. MacDonald will receive a £200 cash prize and be honoured at the Annual Conference AGM.

The Editors of Victorian Popular Fictions are looking for guest editors for autumn special issues from 2027 - 2030. Please see the attached CFP. The deadline for proposals is 30th September 2025, and we are happy to take any queries, please just email us at [email protected].

Your reminder to become a VPFA member so you can attend our Virtual Tea Salon next month! ☕️✨️