VPFJ is seeking to expand its pool of expert reviewers.
Send an email to VPFJournal@gmail.com with subject "VPFJ Reviewer Database" including:
- A short CV (or link to institutional profile) and ORCID.
- Preferred email address for contact.
- Up to 10 research keywords
- Any recent publications
You might find getting back to your writing difficult after the Easter break 🥚🐰🐥, so why not come along to our writing retreat next Saturday?
If you are a VPFA member, the sign up link will be in your recent emails from us. Otherwise, become a member on our website to receive the link
Registration for VPFA Study Day 'The "Critical Age" in Victorian Popular Literature' is now OPEN!
📍 Online
📅 19th May 2026
🕑 10am-4.30pm (GMT)
The study day will also feature a digital humanities workshop with Gale. More info and registration here: victorianpopularfiction.org/the-critical...
Absolutely thrilled to share the programme for the study day that I am co-organising on the "Critical Age" in Victorian Popular Fiction. Registration link in the comments. All welcome @vpfa.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @cncsi.bsky.social
This month's session of the Third Sex Reading Group will be on Selby Wynn Schwartz's After Sappho (2022), co-hosted with Casey Maeve. If you'd like to attend, please send us an email at vpfareadinggroup@gmail.com with the subject FAO: Third Sex.
Fab day @ the VPFA Sensation Fiction & the Health Humanities study day yesterday. As ever, wonderful to catch up with everyone, make new connections, & be immersed in so much interesting research. Thank you @braddonite.bsky.social for putting together such a great day & programme! @vpfa.bsky.social
FYI: if you are not a member of VPFA, there will be a £7.50 charge to attend. You will be contacted after signing up with a PayPal link if you are not on our membership directory.
Registration for VPFA's Study Day 'The Victorian Short Story: Influence, Innovation and Legacy', is now OPEN.
Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-victor...
For the full programme, abstracts, and links to the short stories discussed, head to: victorianpopularfiction.org/the-victoria...
VPFA virtual Victorian tea salon exploring the feathered, furred, and feral stars of 19th century literature. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creatures-...
Free for VPFA members, £6.13 for non-members.
That was fun! Interviewed about my Neglected Victorian Bestsellers YouTube readalong project by @helenaesser.bsky.social for the @vpfa.bsky.social blog victorianpopularfiction.org/neglected-vi...
In a new VPFA Blog Post, Helena Esser interviews Roy Reads Anything (@edgerat.bsky.social) about his Neglected Victorian Bestsellers project. There's Marryat, Lytton, Corelli, Ouida, and more!
Read the post here: victorianpopularfiction.org/neglected-vi...
Roy's YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist...
Join us on the 16th April at 6pm for an amazing interactive workshop led by Dr Catherine Pope, author of How to Publish Your PhD! Catherine will discuss the many steps of turning your thesis into a book. This event is open to VPFA members only, and space is limited to 30 people - check your emails.
VPFA are now going to be hosting regular mid-week and weekend writing retreats. If you are a member, you will have recently received an email providing the dates for all of these, so do have a look and pop them in your calendar!
OR, you can become a member now and get free access to all of our upcoming events (Annual £25 full membership and £10 student): victorianpopularfiction.org/membership-j...
Join us for a mid-week, mid-afternoon writing retreat and beat that afternoon slump! As usual, this event is free for VPFA members, but we have now opened this up to non-members for a small fee of £5 (£6.13 inc. Eventbrite fee). Sign up is available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1984543534...
📢 LAST CALL, BOOK GIVEAWAY ends this Thurs. Repost to win 1 free copy of *Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP March 2026). global.oup.com/academic/pro....
Please check your emails for information that will be coming shortly, or head to SYP's event page here: thesyp.org.uk/events/syp-u...
With all the hype around Wuthering Heights since Emerald Fennel's (wild?) adaptation, we thought that this would be a great opportunity for a discussion of Emily Brontë's classic novel for a VPFA collaboration with the Society of Young Publishers.
Our fantastic doctoral student Sarah Dutson is organising the next of our North-West Long Nineteenth-Century Research Seminars, which is a hybrid event focusing on postgraduate and early career research on 19c afterlives. For more info, please click here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nineteenth...
Today is your final opportunity to submit an abstract for the VPFA study day on the 'critical age". Get submitting!!
I went to a VPFA 'Turning your thesis into a monograph' workshop in 2022. After completing my PhD, I thought I'd maybe mine my thesis for a couple of articles and leave it at that. I left the workshop motivated, re-inspired, and my monograph is now in production 👀
So: sign up!
@vpfa.bsky.social
Become a member to get a link!
Join the VPFA for a workshop on publishing Victorian Popular Fiction!
✅ Turning your thesis into a monograph.
✅ Writing a winning book proposal.
✅ Insights from the VPFJ editorial committee.
✅ Handling peer review & rejection
📅 26th February at 6pm
🔗 See your emails for the registration link!
Just 9 days left to get an abstract in for this @vpfa.bsky.social study day on "The Critical Age". Please re-post to share as widely as we can. Thank you!
Thomas Vranken & Atele Dutt, ‘Speaking in Tongues: The Texts Haunting Stevenson’s Samoan Adaptation of “The Bottle Imp”’, Victorian Popular Fictions 6.2, 2024
@vpfa.bsky.social #C19
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A response to Dickens's OLIVER TWIST's antagonist, FAGIN THE THIEF was nominated for the 2026 Edgar Award (Mystery Writers of America) and shortlisted for the National Jewish Book Awards (Jewish Book Council). It seems like an intriguing addition to the growing neo-Victorian canon.
Want to discuss Allison Epstein's new novel FAGIN THE THIEF?
To join the informal discussion of the novel, please email Rebecca Nesvet at nesvetr@uwgb.edu for zoom link or more information.
📆6-7PM BST, Tuesday 24 March.
New VPFA Study Day Announcement 📢: 'Out of this World: Science Fiction in the Victorian Period'.
Read the CfP on our website: victorianpopularfiction.org/out-of-this-....
@bavs-uk.bsky.social @rs4vp.org @thevicsoc.bsky.social @global19c.bsky.social
Feeling start of year de-motivation? Sign up for our virtual writing retreat to get those creative juices flowing! If you are a member, all information will be in an email from us, or get in touch with network.vpfa@gmail.com to find out more.
The next session of VPFA's Third Sex Reading Group is Sarah Waters' Affinity! Lots of interesting things to be included in the pack from the queer space of the seance room and prison, to intertextuality, and the connection between spiritualism and sexuality. To join email vpfareadinggroup@gmail.com