Details of our #literaturematters conference below ⬇️ please send us proposals for papers, creative interventions, lighting talks by 26 July! SHARP News SHARP (@[email protected]) IES The British Academy University English @OU_WELS OU in Scotland The OU in Northern Ireland The OU in Wales The Reading Agency btb - by the book. Publishing Research Network

We've extended our application deadline for our Festival Event (unfunded pathway). Apply by 18 July to organise an event as part of this year's Being Human Festival (7-16 November) and help us to demonstrate the importance of #humanities research. beinghumanfestival.org/get-involved

Getting scribbling ✍🏽⌨️- send us your proposals for papers, round table panels, lightning talks or creative responses on why #literaturematters by 26 July please!

There’s still time⏱️see below ⬇️

There’s still time ⏱️ to send in your proposals for papers, round table panels, creative interventions or lightning ⚡️ talks! See below ⬇️

Thanks to @CUPElementsPBC for publishing my research on digital comics, webcomics and webtoons, to OU Arts & Social Sciences for making it Open Access, and to Open University English & Creative Writing The Open University Library for their support. Read it for free doi.org/10.1017/978100…

Fellow SHARP (@[email protected]) & #bookhistory people, do take a look at this excellent minigraph from my DigitalHumanities OU and OU Arts & Social Sciences colleague Francesca Benatti👇🏼and yes it’s Open Access so download to your devices now! Arts FASS OU Open University English & Creative Writing Verbal

Just a quick reminder that the Call for Papers for the SHARP 2025 conference ‘Communities and Values of the Book’ (7-11 July 2025) is now open at library.rochester.edu/rbscp/sharp202… - the deadline is 1 December so get writing ✍🏽 💻 SHARP News OU Arts & Social Sciences The Bibliographical Society of America btb - by the book. Publishing Research Network

Registration is now open! Please book your place at our FREE OU Arts & Social Sciences & Open University English & Creative Writing #litertaturematters conference via the link here: www5.open.ac.uk/arts/research/…

The paper - @TellMeWhatUReadingbot: the Multi-modal Strategy of the READ-IT Project for Collecting Experiences of Reading - is a key outcome of the EU JPI-funded READ-IT project. Find out more here: oro.open.ac.uk/99037/

Just a reminder that registration is OPEN for our FREE online ‘Literature Matters’ conference, 4-6 November. Please register for each session you’re planning to attend by 1 November, details here: www5.open.ac.uk/arts/research/…