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Your reminder to become a VPFA member so you can attend our Virtual Tea Salon next month! ☕️✨️
Step into the world of steam, scandal, and storytelling at our Virtual Victorian Tea Salon. Brew your favourite blend and join fellow members online for a lively afternoon discussion, creativity, and Victorian charm. All are welcome at our virtual tea table, even if just sipping!
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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 vpfjournal@gmail.com.
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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.
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In addition to an array of fabulous panels, VPFA 2025 welcomes magic lanternist Jeremy Brooker to offer delegates a unique opportunity to step back into the C19th and enjoy a show of magic & spectacle.
Hurry - conference registration closes at 5pm on 8/07 victorianpopularfiction.org/…
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The show will start at 17:00 on Wednesday, 16 July at the Birmingham & Midland Institute. @bmi1854 members are welcome - booking information is available on the BMI website.
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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/…
The 17th Annual Conference of the VPFA
'Heights, Depths, and Extremes'
BMI, Birmingham UK, 14th-16th July 2025
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📢 CFP for a special issue on poisons and poisoning in C19th popular fiction, guest edited by @MLbrnd and Sarah Frühwirth. Deadline for proposals is 30/04/2025.
Please share widely - Full details:
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24 Dec 2024
Delighted to announce the publication of Volume 6 Issue 2 of Victorian Popular Fictions - a special issue on Victorian Transfictions and Transmedia Storytelling, edited by Erica Haugtvedt and Beth Palmer.
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11 Jan 2025
Please share widely @BAVS_UK @RS4VP @navsa @J19Americanists @global19c @VictorianWeb @VictStudies @UoPVicGothic @RRRJournal @VPFA1
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Victorian Popular Fictions Journal retweeted
#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!
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Victorian Popular Fictions Journal retweeted
📢Just a friendly reminder that @DrHorrocks and the Punch's Pocket Book team would like your proposals for a special issue of @VPReditors by THIS Friday, Nov. 22! See the full CFP here: rs4vp.org/upcoming-special-i…
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Submissions are open for the VPFA Second Book Prize, an Award aimed at scholars at any stage of their career.
*Deadline 31st December 2024*
We're also delighted to announce the VPFA Second Book prize! Full details here: victorianpopularfiction.org/…
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The works submitted for consideration for the 2024 VPFA Second Book Prize should have been published in 2023 or 2024.
Any VPFA member can submit a book for consideration. Authors are allowed to submit their own work.
Full submission details on the VPFA website 4/4
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Please share widely @BAVS_UK @RS4VP @navsa @J19Americanists @global19c @VictorianWeb @VictStudies @UoPVicGothic @RRRJournal
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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 @UniKent.
CfP closes Monday 18 November 2024.
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We’re delighted to announce that the Call for Papers for the annual RRR conference is now live!
‘Play in the Long Nineteenth Century’ will take place on 17 January 2025 @UniKent.
CfP closes Monday 18 November 2024.
Please share widely!
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Victorian Popular Fictions Journal retweeted
5 Aug 2024
A great event for PGR/ECR in Gothic studies, adaptation studies, Victorian studies and neo-Victorian studies! Deadline for abstracts: 1 Sept! @NVSjournal @VictorianScot @VPFJournal @GothicStudies @gothicmmu @adaptstudies @Adaptation_SIG
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Here it is - join us for
👻Spectres of #Gothic Literature: Reflections, Reworkings, Reinventions
🗓 November 28, 2024
🌐free & online (CET)
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The @VPFA1 Mary Eliza Root prize supports research at Gladstone’s library. The prize funds two nights’ accommodation (Dec - Feb) at @gladlib Applications now open - deadline 30th September 2024.
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