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Woolf scholars in the news

Saturday 2 May 2026 by Paula Maggio

Here is news about projects from Woolf scholars around the globe.

Maggie Humm and Snapshots

Maggie Humm’s new book, Snapshots: Autobiography, Virginia Woolf, Writing and the Visual, published by Edinburgh University Press, is now out and receiving much acclaim. Read about it on USA Book DNA and on the EUP blog.

The book provides a survey and analysis of feminist criticism from the 1970s and an historical account of UK women’s writing from 1900 to the present. It also rings together Humm’s pioneering work on feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf, film and visual cultures.

Look below for the code to get a 30 percent discount on Snapshots from EUP.

Humm is an emeritus professor and Vice-Chair of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain whose last book was The Bloomsbury Photographs.

Yolanda Hartshorne and Woolf’s shorter fiction

“A Spatial Reading of Virginia Woolf’s Shorter Fiction” a Ph.D. thesis by Yolanda Hartshorne is now openly accessible online.

In it, she places Woolf’s texts in their non-fictional historical contexts in an effort to understand the societal expectations of the times.

Hartshorne is also the author of “The Business of Marriage in Virginia Woolf’s ‘Phyllis and Rosamond”: Conventional and Transgressive Spaces” and was awarded Distinction Cum Laude from the University of Oviedo, Spain.

Martin Ferguson Smith and two books

Martin Ferguson Smith, professor emeritus of Classics, Durham University and member of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain who is now in his eighties, has two new books out.

  • Urbi et Orbi: The Epicurean Inscription and Prescription of Diogenes of Oinoanda Tab Edizioni, Rome, March 2026, paperback and Open Access
  • Martin the Epicurean (autobiography), SilverWood, Bristol, 15 April 2026, paperback and ebook. For other information, including about the earlier books of the writer’s eighties, In and Out of Bloomsbury (2021; paperback 2023) and The Artist Helen Coombe (2023), visit http://www.martinfergusonsmith.com

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Apply by May 18 to be Writer in Residence in England

Thursday 30 April 2026 by Paula Maggio

The Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP) and the archives of the Hogarth Press is looking for a Writer in Residence to start work this June in preparation for a major 2027 exhibition celebrating the University of Reading’s holdings relating to the Bloomsbury Group. The exhibit will be held March through May 2027.

About the Writer in Residence position

The person chosen will spend June through September 2026 drawing inspiration from MAPP archival materials to develop new creative work for an exhibit. From September to December 2026, they will build on this research to support community and youth engagement in Reading, leading monthly workshops with the Museum of English Rural Life’s  Youth Panel.

The Writer in Residence will work with young people aged 14-18 to explore and connect with the publishing stories and materials in MAPP in imaginative and accessible ways, encouraging fresh perspectives and new interpretations.

These interpretations may engage with themes including, but not limited to: 

  • Class
  • Colonialism
  • Gender, feminism and women’s authorship
  • LGBTQIA+ identities and experiences
  • Mental health and creativity
  • Modernism, publishing, and literary experimentation
  • Networks of writers and artistic collaboration
  • Print culture, letterpress, materiality, and book-making
  • Rural and country lives
  • Relationships between art, literature and landscape
  • Social inclusion and justice

Position sponsorship

This Writer in Residence has been made possible by the University of Reading’s Impact Accelerator Account, funded by the AHRC. The fee is £3,000, and the closing date for applications is 18 May 2026.

How to apply

Get full details and how to apply.

Roundtable participants from the MAPP project at the 2017 Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf sit below a screen showing a digitized ledger sheet from the Hogarth Press. Note the purple ink.

Stacks showing a portion of the Hogarth Press archives at University of Reading Special Collections.

Cecil Woolf, the nephew of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, cuts the cake designed by Cressida Bell for the 100th birthday party of the Hogarth Press in June 2017 in Reading, England. Cecil passed away June 10, 2019, at the age of 92. Read more.

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Virginia Woolf and failure is focus of new Miscellany

Sunday 19 April 2026 by Paula Maggio

I had never thought about Virginia Woolf and failure until last week when I received the Spring-Fall 2025 issue of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany. To me, Virginia Woolf had always been synonymous with success. 

But this new issue invites readers “to think about, analyze, expose, and otherwise wallow in failure” — and asserts that “[f]ailure circulates throughout Woolf’s work and carries with it many meanings.”

In her introduction to the issue, Number 103, editor Mary Wilson argues that “Woolf’s engagement with failure in her public and private writing offers some models for decoupling that failure/success binary.”

The 60-page issue includes 14 thought provoking articles and two poems on the topic.

Here are just a few:

  • “Turning on Woolf: When Woolf Failed Me, or I Her” by Pamela L. Caughie
  • “Woolf’s Variations on Failure” by Savina Stevanato
  • “The Aesthetics and Polemics of Failure: Virginia Woolf as Novelist and Feminist” by Harish Trivedi
  • “Failure Allure,” a poem by Cecilia Servatius

This issue is available online, along with Miscellany back issues. Find out more about  joining the International Virginia Woolf Society, publisher of the Miscellany.

How to contribute

If you want to contribute an article or a poem or an artwork, are looking for an article published in the Miscellany, need to access a print or online copy of an issue, want to acquire issues of the publication to use in a classroom, or have any questions about the it, please contact Vara Neverow at neverowv@southernct.edu.

About the issue’s editor

Wilson is associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and author of The Labors of Modernism: Domesticity, Servants, and Authorship in Modernist Fiction (2013).

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Virginia Woolf Fanzine from Turkey debuts

Friday 10 April 2026 by Paula Maggio

I am a bit late to the party, but the inaugural issue of the Virginia Woolf Fanzin is here. An online publication of the Virginia Woolf Society of Turkey, it debuted in March with articles from 10 contributing authors.

The 46-page publication includes:

  • research articles and essays,
  • traces of encounters with Virginia Woolf and the impressions they left,
  • a special poetry section,
  • a translation,
  • and event reports and announcements.

About the Virginia Woolf Fanzin

According to the publication’s introduction, it is “a space born out of admiration, curiosity, and a shared desire to keep Woolf’s voice resonating across time and borders.”

Turkish is its first language, so it is natural that the editor and its board connect Woolf to Turkey in a multitude of ways. As they put it:

Here, Woolf meets Istanbul’s streets, Anatolia’s silences, and the layered histories of Turkish women writers and thinkers. Each contribution—be it essay, artwork, translation—echoes Woolf’s spirit while refracting it through our own cultural lens.

Online in two languages

While the majority of articles are written in Turkish, several are written in English. They include:

  • “Angela Inside the Convent and Angela Inside the College. Life Among Women in Mansfield’s ‘Taking the Veil’ and Woolf’s ‘A Woman’s College From Outside’” by Eleonora Tarabella,
  • “Towards A Room of One’s Own Centenary by Valérie Favre and Anne-Laure Rigeade,
  • “Virginia Woolf, My Soulmate” by Nilüfer Kuyaş,
  • and several reports.

Demet Karabulut Dede is editor-in-chief and Nilüfer Kuyaş and Şima İmşir serve on the editorial board. You can read the Virginia Woolf Fanzin online.

The Virginia Woolf Society of Turkey also sponsors a Woolf Seminar Series.

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Find out what Woolf and Rhys have in common

Thursday 9 April 2026 by Paula Maggio

“Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys’s Embodied Writing” is the topic for the next Woolf seminar presented by the Virginia Woolf Society of Turkey, featuring Eret Talviste on April 17 at 7 p.m. (Turkey time).

About the talk

Eret’s talk will focus on her new monograph Strange Intimacies – Affect, Embodiment, and Materiality in Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys (Edinburgh University Press, 2025), in which she explores how Woolf and Rhys understood writing as an embodied practice, starting with diaries, letters, and autobiographical texts, and moving into novels and short stories.

About Eret

Eret is a researcher in English Literature at the University of Tartu. Her research interests include modernist and contemporary fiction, transnationalism, feminism, and posthumanism. Strange Intimacies – Affect, Embodiment and Materiality in Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys is her first monograph.

How to attend

This is a Zoom event. Register on the Virginia Woolf Society of Turkey website. Then click on the Zoom link on the date and time posted above. Please check your time zone.

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