Calling all members of the Poetics and Linguistics Association @palapoeticsling.bsky.social – the next issue of Parlance needs your news! Send any updates (and/or pet pictures) to naomi.adam@nottingham.ac.uk by Friday 15 May 2026.
Inspiration at: pala.ac.uk/parlance
A behind-the-scenes peek at The Letters Page journal, courtesy of Nottingham’s Impact Magazine 👀
Read the full article at:
impactnottingham.com/2026/03/an-interview-with-the-web-team-of-the-letters-page
Definitely at least one publication in there you might recognise/have co-edited 😂
@fstradling.bsky.social and I have been busy browsing through a brilliant range of recently published work in stylistics. We’ve broken it down into bite-sized chunks here:
academic.oup.com/ywes/advance...
Added bonus – it’s open access! 🥳
Looking to immerse yourself in a book about immersing yourself in books? Well, look no further!
‘Immersion’ is here 👇
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-immersi...
Submissions for the Letters Page Vol.6 are open, and close on the 22nd March!
Please send your handwritten letter to this address:
The Letters Page
School of English
Trent Building
University of Nottingham
Nottingham
NG7 2RD
We look forward to reading your submissions.
Need a reason to love Mondays? Come and join us! Send me a message for the Teams link 🤓
@pala.bsky.social 📢A reminder that the deadline for abstracts for PALA 2026 at Uppsala University is 30th Jan. 2026!! Submission of abstracts is via: easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/P... (A link to this is also available on the PALA 2026 conference website). Look forward to seeing you there!🎉
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…Are you ready for it?*
(*By which I mean my @jlpopculture.bsky.social review of ‘The Literary Taylor Swift’. If so, click here: doi.org/10.1075/jlpop.25017.ada 👀)
*is 🤭
’Tis true – the best kind of Christmas cards are equal parts love and glitter ✨
Spotted: Volume 5 in the wild 👀
And there’s still time to get your hands on a copy before Christmas (as long as you order *right now*)
store.nottingham.ac.uk/product-cata...
The carnage that is book indexing. 🥴
The Letters Page are excited to announce the release of their new Printed Journal!
Vol. 5 is a special collaboration with Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature. It features translations of letters from 9 UNESCO Cities of Literature.
shorturl.at/3rN0I
Sending you virtual hugs! 🤗
Only issue is – she is a bit of a diva. Would definitely be asking for first author status and shunt us both to et al. 🙄
@paulaghintuiala.bsky.social
Teams meeting intruder alert!
If you ever want a second pair of eyes on things I am happy to be said eyes 👀 Just let me know! ☺️
Stylistics 3.0 has arrived! 🎉
Delighted to be a small cog in the wheel of Section D. More details here: www.routledge.com/Stylistics-A-Resource-Book-for-Students/Simpson/p/book/9781032217536
⚠️ Warning: May contain updated exercises feat. Rihanna and Nicki Minaj 🎶
Would you like to read a beautifully-written article about the history of letter-writing this weekend? Well of course you would! And here it is:
www.theletters.page/from-necessity-to-narrative-the-history-of-letters
You’re welcome! 😉
A reminder that our shiny new issue 7 is here! ✨
Read now at tinyurl.com/ltsissue7
Hi everybody! Want to be a part of LTS for the next issue? We're currently looking for volunteers! We're currently looking for Issue Managers, Peer Review editors, Book Review Editors, Production Assistants and Marketing Assistants. More info can be found at the link below
tiny.cc/ltsvacancies
A pleasure to be involved with promoting Rachael’s beautiful letter. (And I will never look at a piano in the same way again.) 🎹
From pioneering postie uniforms to the evils of letterboxes – this is a great read! 📮
