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Really thrilled to have won the Univ Library Poetry Comp with my poem ‘Backsliding’, inspired by Chaucer’s Troilus & Criseyde. Well done to the runners up and hon. mentions too, read all the poems on the Univ website www.univ.ox.ac.uk/news/poetry-...

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And as I planned, one chapter a day and I finished Moby-Dick today. I think if I’d tried to read it all on one go, I’d have been overwhelmed, but I’ve looked forward to each new chapter every day. Off to listen to the @backlisted.bsky.social episode again now.

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Woo! Town & Gown 10km complete! Well done to #TeamUniv and to my running buddy @leahveronese.bsky.social, the Univ LVs smashed it! 💪👏💙💛🥇

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This looks great! 👏

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Tomorrow! Good luck to all the Team Univ runners! Let’s do this! 💛💙🏃🏻‍♀️

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I'm running the Town & Gown 10km in Oxford this weekend! Wish me luck! (I hope the weather won't be too warm!). I'll be raising money for Muscular Dystrophy and would be very grateful for any sponsorship, thank you! sportsgiving.co.uk/sponsorship/...

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One of our founders, @hellomizk.bsky.social, has co-organised the 'Cartooning the Medieval' symposium at the Newberry Library, Chicago! Professional cartoonists will explore the potential for comics to engage diverse audiences with medieval culture. Read all about the event here: shorturl.at/YOHiy

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I wrote about the widespread adoption of AI in education, and why there needs to be more resistance to it open.substack.com/pub/irinadum...

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Amazing!

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@valarie.bsky.social Thanks for the comment on my blog! Making progress on your blanket!! 🌈

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The @oxfordmedievalmss.bsky.social is hosting a workshop by @saracharles.bsky.social, 'GOLD in Medieval Illumination: A Practice Based Workshop' on 16th May, 2:00pm ✨ An exciting session for our Oxford-based medievalist makers!

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Do you learn by doing? @ies-sas.bsky.social has a new summer school course that explores medieval manuscripts by making them. You’ll learn how inks and pigments were made and used and get to experiment for yourself! 📖📚🎨 @ies-sas.bsky.social book 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/london-rare-...

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Our next Making Space Session (online co-working) where you can set time aside time to work on YOUR creative project is taking place on Thursday 22nd May, 5:30pm-7:00pm (GMT). Sign up to our mailing list via the 'Join the Guild' page to receive the link! www.guildmedmak.com/events-1-1/m...

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Introducing myself on the @guildmedmak.bsky.social blog! 👇✍🏻

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You’re so welcome! It blew me away ✨

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This was such a wonderful and inspiring work-and-chat session! It’s definitely got me thinking a lot about trash as a surprisingly generative creativity fuel. 🧡 Thank you to everyone who showed up and shared your thoughts and your practices!

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I spent this evening's @guildmedmak.bsky.social Making Space Session (ably led by @hellomizk.bsky.social ) printing some more of my medieval herbal-inspired apathetic beetroot cards. It was really great to hear about other people's fantastic projects and practices!

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I spent this evening’s @guildmedmak.bsky.social “Making Space” co-working session experimenting with an autobio zine exercise that I had written but never worked through. It was so encouraging to look up at my screen and see everyone else diligently working away at their projects! #guildmedmak

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Co-founder @hellomizk.bsky.social has written up her experience hosting the first Making Space Session for our Substack! Read all about it here 👉 guildmedmak.substack.com/p/reflection...

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If you’re not already listening to the brilliant ECR podcast & you’re an academic or researcher, you should be! Great recent episodes with Eleanor Barraclough on media & Elizabeth Boyle on writing for the public 👌

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Today I launch a fundraiser to support the 2025 #Curae prize for unpaid carers who are also writers or would like to be. Anything you can add to the pot will go directly towards bursary funds for our three winners (announced 1st June). gofund.me/1d8c6564 All in, we can transform lives here x

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Great conference and thank you, Laura, for chairing so well!

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Huge congrats to Rachel Burns & Francis Leneghan for organising such a fantastic conference on the Exeter Book 👏 Such a wealth of scholarship on display! I esp enjoyed chairing the landscapes & ecology session with Ann Pascoe-Van Zyl, Emma Hitchcock, and @jamespaz.bsky.social 👏 Thank you all!

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One of the benefits of supporting @backlisted.bsky.social on Patreon has always been the music on Locklisted episodes. Now you get @iammilliam.bsky.social’s Inventory - musical musings from always beloved bookish Andy. I have often thanked them for the books, now I can thank them for the music.

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‘Anita Brookner’s Barmy Army.’ Rarely has anything delighted me more! Well done, sir! Much enjoying INVENTORY 👏

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On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

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And you could join the Nine Arches poetry book subscription too & get a fantastic set of new poetry books delivered throughout the year! 📚📖

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VERY excited about the Exeter Book conference in the English Faculty this week, organised by my colleagues Rachel Burns and Francis Leneghan. I’ll be chairing the session on Landscapes & Ecology feat. the brilliant James Paz!

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And I'm really pleased that @drlauravarnam.bsky.social will be chairing this session!

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If you’re not already signed up to the Backlisted Patreon, DO IT because you won’t want to miss the bonus discussion of Ishiguro on Locklisted!! Great stuff, team! 👏

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Georgia O'Keeffe, Pink Moon Over Water, 1924 (Smith College Museum of Art collection)

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Want to get a heads-up when we update the GuMM website? You can subscribe to our substack to get notifications right in your in-box! open.substack.com/pub/guildmed...

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