New novel by Judith Heneghan launches tomoro! “Set against the hardscrabble landscape of the Catskills, this novel is richly reminiscent of Elizabeth Strout, full of spiky individualistic types whose flawed fealty to their beliefs take us in surprising, moving, directions.”

Our next SIAH Public Life is with Orit Halpern TU Dresden, in conversation with Ryan Bishop Winchester School of Art on Neo-liberal discussions and artificial intelligence 6th June, 4pm, online OritHalpern.eventbrite.co.uk

I am mapping employability skills on English at Soton programmes, which involves a lot of cutting and pasting. I have therefore accidentally turned 'self management' into 'elf management', and feel the medievalists in particular will be very much here for this life skill.

Bardot’s probably playing Lydia, to be honest…

Our Transnational and Diasporic Cultures Book Launch celebrates the landmark publications & blue-sky research of colleagues in Arts and Humanities 12th June 4–5.30pm roundtable led by doctoral students followed by reception Lecture Theatre A Avenue Campus eventbrite.co.uk/e/siah-transna…

Loved the *#QueerJoy as a Digital Good* symposium on Avenue Campus School of Humanities at University of Southampton last Friday. It was thought-provoking, it was fun, and the lunch was excellent. More of that kind of thing, plse, Southampton Digital Humanities? (That's our very own Jared Mustafa Holzapfel presenting, English at Soton) 🙂

Looking forward to welcoming speakers and audience for the Infrastructures of Representation, Infrastructures of Extraction conference. 14th and 15th June. Further information from Dr Alireza Fakhrkonandeh.

We are still open for applications to the Creative Writing MA at University of Southampton English at Soton Not too many places left, however. DM me here, if you're interested. Centre for Modern and Contemporary Writing

What could be clearer? c/o Simon Beale

Join our hybrid conference taking place on Wednesday 28th & Thursday 29th August 2024. Wonderful line-up of speakers. Register here -- shorturl.at/CDUnF Centre for Modern and Contemporary Writing Philip Hoare University of Southampton Library

CMCW eagerly supports this conference on oceanic representations in cinema-- For more info and to register: modernandcontemporary.soton.ac.uk/portfolio/conf…

One last reminder -- applications for postgraduate courses in our department are still being accepted for the next few days. That's English and Creative Writing.

Good to see our Head of Creative Writing, Toby Litt, has found something good to read this summer. Here he is in Guardian Books reviewing Sam Mills' The Watermark. theguardian.com/books/article/…

Today!

As well as a bit of celebrating, today I'm thankg the many people who supported #TheSameCountry esp editor extraordinaire Cari Rosen @Legend_Times_ Philip Hoare GISHJenn Rebecca Smith Toby Litt English at Soton October Books 📚 Griffin Books 📚 caroleburns.substack.com/p/the-same-cou… Waterstones Leadenhall Market