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Contemporary Literary Sports Journalism

McGowan, Symons, Hoey & Ellison 2026 Excerpt: Before the book examines emergent and evolving, new and innovative works, and initiates the work of documenting and analysing practices and platforms that address a preference for deep dive experiential sports analysis over the box score, we examine aspects of the histories and traditions of the form. With…

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CFP: Comics and Machines

April 22-23, 2026 Deadline for abstracts: 1st December 2025 Notifications of acceptance: 30th December 2025 Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm & Uppsala University, Sweden Steering committee: Jan Baetens, Jaqueline Berndt, Jan von Bonsdorff, Gareth Brookes, Benoît Crucifix, Björn-Olav Dozo, Anna Foka, Isabelle Gribomont, Andre Holzapfel, Per Israelson, Gaëtan Le Coarer, Ilan Manouach, Pedro Moura,…

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Travel Writing Post-Pandemic: A Creative Exploration

Read an excerpt here from the Palgrave Literary Journalism series book Re-thinking Travel Writing: The Journey of a Genre. In this latest newsletter entry, I wanted to showcase the work that is coming from the Palgrave Studies in Literary Journalism series, edited by our own Sue Joseph, Willa McDonald and Matthew Ricketson. I also figured that…

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Changing of the Guard

Literary Journalism farewells ‘Fitz’ Literary Journalism, the newsletter of the IALJS, will be saying goodbye to its current editor Jonathan D. Fitzgerald shortly as he moves on to new and exciting projects. My name is Dr Ben Stubbs, and I will be stepping in to his position with the newsletter as we move towards this…

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