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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings is the official journal of @bacls.bsky.social. The journal is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publication, and circulation of 21st-century writings. Published by @openlibhums.org

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings

Our new issue—13.1 (Summer 2026)—has just opened! Featuring Tommaso Villa on the contemporary sports novel, Frankie Hines on waste and _White Teeth_, and review essays by Yian Zhu and Mortada Haidar c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1941/i...

thanks as ever to our partners at @openlibhums.org and @bacls.bsky.social 🧚

our publishing model means that when an issue 'opens' we can continue publishing pieces into it as and when they're ready—so keep an eye out for more articles, review essays, interviews in the next few weeks 👁️ #openaccess

🗣️ New Article! Cynthia Quarrie, 'Helen Oyeyemi’s Exquisite Corpses: Race, Authorial Multiplicity, and Aleatory Play in Boy, Snow, Bird' doi.org/10.16995/c21...

📚 New Review Essay: Svetlana Stefanova on Kaisa Kortekallio’s Ecological Science Fiction: Thinking with Embodied Estrangement (2023) and Emily Horton’s 21st-Century British Gothic (2024) c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

Anna and her Semester 1 colleague Ines Tramarin set up C21's new instagram page—go follow if you're so inclined www.instagram.com/c21.literatu...

Our marvellous StARIS intern Anna Macleod has finished her time with C21 and told us a bit about the experience: c21.openlibhums.org/news/945/

BIG NEWS! We've flipped another journal to diamond OA. Today the entire editorial team of Springer Nature's flagship linguistics journal Natural Language Semantics resigned in protest at commercial pressure. They are launching Semantics of Natural Languages at the OLH. www.openlibhums.org/news/943/

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A busy June upcoming! I'll be at York Festival of Ideas on the 7th of June: yorkfestivalofideas.com/2026/calenda... And then the London Library on the 12th: www.londonlibrary.co.uk/whats-on/361...