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$500 Bounty for English “Vampire”
29 December 2025 - 31 December 2027
A journal editor is offering $500 to anyone who can find the earliest use of the word vampire in English. Anthony Hogg, president of the Vampire Studies Association and editor of the Journal of Vampire... Read moreCall for Contributions: A Sourcebook for Histories of Weather and Weathering
27 April 2026 - 5 September 2026
We invite contributions to this sourcebook, which aims to present and analyse a diverse range of primary sources that reveal embodied, scientific and cultural knowledges in histories of weather and weathering.... Read moreCall for submissions: Wonder Tales: Critical and Creative Approaches
15 May 2026 - 31 December 2026
Wonder Tales: Critical and Creative Approaches Cristina Bacchilega (University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa), Veronica Schanoes (Queens College, City University of New York), Elena Sottilotta (University... Read moreEncounters with Landscapes
22 May 2026 , Oxford
An inaugural evening of short films, talks and conversation about landscape and the relationship between people and place, hosted by Northern Earth, the long-running quarterly exploring the relationships... Read moreLolly Willowes at 100
29 May 2026 - 30 May 2026, University College London
The international conference, ‘Lolly Willowes at 100’, to mark the centenary of Warner’s best-known novel, Lolly Willowes, will be held at University College London on Friday 29 May and... Read moreSussex Retold: Sounds, Sites, Stories conference
19 June 2026 , University of Sussex
Artists, story-tellers, scholars, land-workers and policy-makers will gather at the University of Sussex to share work and ideas at a creative conference, Sussex Retold: Sounds, Sites, Stories, on... Read moreMythos as MythUs summer school
20 June 2026 - 30 June 2026, Athens and Naxos island, Greece
The Mythos as MythUs summer school studies myth and popular narrative, from antiquity to the present, as humanity’s long-shared voice in response to times of crisis and distress that impact entire... Read moreFolktales Short Story Course with Sophie Parkes
23 June 2026 - 1 September 2026, Online Via Zoom
Explore traditional folktales with author Sophie Parkes and have your work published in a Comma Press eBook. Folk tales: fairytales, wonder tales, Märchen, memorates, contemporary legends, fables,... Read more