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News about Virginia Woolf scholars

Posted in awards, books, tagged , , , , on Friday 12 December 2025| Leave a Comment »

Here are just a handful of news bits about Virginia Woolf scholars. I know there are more. So if you have one, please add it as a comment below this post. Or send it to me by clicking on the email link in the right sidebar.

  • Maggie Humm’s book The Bloomsbury Photographs (2024) received two honors this year. It was a finalist in the American Writing Award 2025 for Academic/Educational book, and it won the American Writing Award 2025 for photography.
  • Amanda Golden and Karen V. Kukil edited The Poems of Sylvia Plath, which is listed in the Faber Spring Catalogue and is now available for pre-order on Amazon UK. It is considered the definitive edition of Plath’s poetry.
  • Anne Fernald has a new book coming out in August. Her Own Voice: Eight Women Who Rewrote Life and Art tells the stories of eight radical women who responded to social oppression and helped create the modernist movement. In it, Fernald argues that the stories we read shape the lives we imagine for ourselves, and offers these stories as possible templates for living boldly and creatively.
  • Ane Thon Knutsen had another of her works, A Room of One’s Own (2017), included in the Catalog for Artistic Publishing, which is a collection of the most important 100 publications from Norwegian artists.

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Undergrads can enter Virginia Woolf essay contest

Posted in awards, International Virginia Woolf Society, Virginia Woolf, tagged , on Sunday 7 April 2024| Leave a Comment »

Undergraduates currently writing about Virginia Woolf are urged to enter the 2024 Angelica Garnett Undergraduate Essay Contest, sponsored by the International Virginia Woolf Society.

Submission guidelines

  • Undergraduate essays can be on any topic pertaining to the writings of Virginia Woolf.
  • Essays should be between 2,000 and 2,500 words in length, including notes and works cited, with an original title of the entrant’s choosing.
  • Essays will be judged by the Society’s officers.
  • Submissions are due at the end of June.

There is a cash prize of $400 for first place, in addition to a promise of publication in an upcoming issue of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany.

This is an excellent opportunity for the brightest young Woolfians out there today.

How to submit

To submit an essay, please fill out the entry form and then send your essay to society president Ben Leubner at leubnerb@montana.edu.

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Undergrads can enter 2023 Angelica Garnett essay contest

Posted in awards, call for papers, tagged , , , on Thursday 27 April 2023| Leave a Comment »

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The International Virginia Woolf Society announces the Annual Undergraduate Essay Competition in honor of Virginia Woolf and in memory of Angelica Garnett, writer, artist, and daughter of Woolf’s sister, Vanessa Bell.

Undergraduate essays can be on any topic pertaining to the writings of Virginia Woolf. Essays should be between 2,000 and 2,500 words in length, including notes and works cited, with an original title of the entrant’s choosing.

Essays will be judged by the society’s officers: Benjamin Hagen (President); Amanda Golden (Vice-President); Susan Wegener (Secretary-Treasurer); and Catherine Hollis (Historian-Bibliographer). The winner will receive $400 and have the essay published in a subsequent issue of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany.

To submit an essay, please fill out the entry form, then send your essay to Benjamin D. Hagen at Benjamin.Hagen@usd.edu.

All entries must be received by 30 June 2023.

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Stuart N. Clarke honored for his Woolf work

Posted in awards, Virginia Woolf, tagged , on Saturday 27 August 2022| 3 Comments »

Thanks to the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain for this news about co-founder and member Stuart N. Clarke.

Co-founder of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, Stuart N. Clarke has been made an Honorary Fellow by the Centre for Modernist Cultures at the University of Birmingham `in recognition of his exceptional contribution to the study of Virginia Woolf.’

Work on Woolf

His work on Woolf is considerable. Well before the founding of the VWSGB, Stuart self-published Orlando: The Holograph Draft (1993). He assisted B. J. Kirkpatrick to compile the fourth edition of A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf (1997), an arduous and multifaceted task.

In 1999, he started the Virginia Woolf Bulletin for the VWSGB and was its chief editor for the first 70 issues, supplying much of the content, including full-length papers featuring original research and many of the fascinating ‘Notes and Queries’ articles.

Also for the organization, Stuart produced an edition of Virginia Woolf and S. S. Koteliansky’s Translations from the Russian, which had not been reprinted since the Hogarth Press originals of 1922 and 1923.

Apart from his work for the Society, Stuart has edited and annotated volumes five and six of Woolf’s Essays (Hogarth Press, 2009 and 2011), A Room of One’s Own with David Bradshaw (Shakespeare Head Press, 2015), and Jacob’s Room for The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Clarke’s assiduous tracing of references has been especially significant in establishing the extent and complex character of Woolf’s political engagement. – Center for Modernist Studies, University of Birmingham

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Winner of Angelica Garnett Essay Prize focuses on the Gothic in Mrs. Dalloway

Posted in awards, International Virginia Woolf Society, Mrs. Dalloway, tagged , , , , , on Saturday 4 November 2017| Leave a Comment »

Halle Mason is the winner of the Angelica Garnett Essay Prize with a paper that focuses on the Gothic, according to the fall issue of the International Virginia Woolf Newsletter.

Her essay, “A Modern Gothic: Septimus Smith Haunts the Streets of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway,” was written for Professor Emily James’s fourth-year course on The Metropolitan Mind at the University of St. Thomas.

Mason will receive $200 and her paper will be published in Issue 92 of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany.

The essay was one of a number of excellent entries for the Garnett prize, but stood out for the readers as “an original, layered, and well informed” engagement with Woolf’s 1925 novel. In particular, the essay was noted for the author’s skilled application of literary terminology and genre theory.

Drawing upon a breadth of knowledge, the author establishes the gothic nature of the “horrors of the everyday” in a postwar context.

Working from “Street Haunting,” she moves to detailed analyses of Mrs. Dalloway, creating a memorable, persuasive, and insightful argument. – IVWS Newsletter

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