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How to tell if you’re in a Virginia Woolf novel

Posted in Virginia Woolf on Friday 25 April 2014| 2 Comments »

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Pawmark on the page wins Woolf competition

Posted in awards, Flush, short stories, tagged , , , , on Thursday 24 April 2014| Leave a Comment »

Here is some news via the Facebook page of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain:

The RateMyWords Virginia Woolf Competition has awarded first prize and £200 to Gabriella Patanè for her story “The Pawmark on the Page,” a tribute to Virginia Woolf. Here is her opening line:

‘Perhaps it was the end of September 1930 that Virginia Woolf first saw the pawmark on the page.’

Here’s the original from Woolf’s “The Mark on the Wall”:

‘Perhaps it was the middle of January in the present that I first looked up and saw the mark on the wall.’

According to the society, Gabriella’s story combines ‘The Mark on the Wall’ with Flush, featuring Pinker the spaniel, the real-life model for Flush, given to Virginia by Vita Sackville-West. Virginia and Leonard are included in the story, and even Nelly gets a namecheck.

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RateMyWords also made a generous donation to the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain.

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Killing the Angel seeks flash fiction

Posted in Virginia Woolf, tagged , , on Tuesday 22 April 2014| Leave a Comment »

Killing the Angel, “a literary experience inspired by Virginia Woolf,” will be launching its third annual issue later this year.

Under the tender loving care of publisher/editor/Woolfian Jessica Rosevear, KTA has persevered in the competitive and shrinking world of print literary journals. Its claim to fame is being carried by Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris, but you can also buy the journal in New Jersey and online!

For the upcoming issue, KTA is holding a flash fiction contest. A call for submissions has gone out for stories with fewer than 500 words. The deadline is April 30.

Here’s a great opportunity for Blogging Woolf readers to exercise their creativity with a chance to see their work in print. Why not have a go at it?

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Mrs. Dalloway makes the list

Posted in Mrs. Dalloway, tagged , , on Wednesday 16 April 2014| 1 Comment »

Mrs. Dalloway (1925) has made the list. According to The Telegraph, it is one of the Twenty Best British and Irish Novels of All Time.

It is in good company, and so is Woolf, company that includes Joyce, Fielding, Austen, Dickens, Thackeray, and more.

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Register for Woolf Conference: Writing the World

Posted in 24th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, events, tagged on Monday 7 April 2014| Leave a Comment »

Registration for the 2014 International Conference on Virginia Woolf, June 5-8 in Chicago, is open, and if you are presenting a paper at the conference, you should register by April 15 in order to be included in the printed program.

There are special events on June 4 and June 5 that you also may want to consider as you make your travel plans. These include:

  • Poetry Off the Shelf: A Woolf-Inspired Reading by Sina Queyras on Wednesday, June 4, at 7 p.m at the Poetry Foundation.
  • Newberry Library Bloomsbury Exhibit on Wednesday, June 4, 3-4:30 p.m. and Thursday, June 5, 10-11:30 a.m.

Another special feature of the conference are seminars led by noted Woolf scholars ranging from Woolf and Cognition’s Outward Turn with Melba Cuddy-Keane to Queering/Cripping Modernism with Madelyn Detloff. Be sure to read about these sessions before you register, as you will be asked to choose your first, second and third choices during the registration process.

The conference also offers special discounted registration rate for students, part-time and emeritus faculty, and independent scholars. The Woolf Conference is completely self-supporting through the registration fees, so attendees are asked to take this special registration rate only if you qualify for it.

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