The #YSJBigSummerRead is back! And this year, we’re reading Babel, by Rebecca F. Kuang!
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YSJ Big Summer Read 2024: R F Kuang’s Babel
“Mindless Academy”: A Work Placement Opportunity for Second Year Literature Students
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Are you ready for Folk Horror February?
Staff, students and members of the public are invited to join the #FolkHorrorFeb reading challenge.
Join Professor Robert Edgar (Creative Writing) and Dr Adam J Smith (English Literature) for the virtual February Folk Horror Reading Circle.
Following the recent publication of the Routledge Companion to Folk Horror (edited by Robert Edgar and Wayne Johnson and featuring an essay written by Adam J Smith) and leading into a day of Folk Horror events at this year’s York Literature Festival, Adam and Rob will be reading one short story a week for the next for weeks, and you can read along too!
Each story is taken from Circles of Stone: Weird Tales of Pagan Sites and Ancient Rites, a recently published anthology of stories spanning from the 19th to the 21st centuries.
Circles of Stone was edited by Dr Katy Soar, who you can and come see live in conversation with Adam at the York Literature Festival on 2 March (reserve your free space here).
To get involved, all you need is to follow our reading schedule and post your thoughts, reflections, favourite quotes or book photos using #FolkHorrorFeb on Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), BlueSky or TikTok (or just read along in the privacy of your own mind/email Adam and Rob with your thoughts).
#FolkHorrorFeb Reading Schedule
| 3-9th Feb | The Spirit of Stonehenge by Rosalie Helen Muspratt (writing as Jasper John) |
| 10-16th Feb | The Tarn of Sacrifice by Algernon Blackwood |
| 17-23rd Feb | The Dark Land by Mary Williams |
| 24th Feb-1st March | Minuke by Nigel Kneale |
Welcome Event for Second Year Literature Students
Second Year Literature Students are all invited to a dedicated Welcome Session in Week 1. See below for a message from our Level 5 Coordinator, Dr Adam J Smith.
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#YSJBigSummerRead VOTING NOW OPEN!
Every year “Words Matter” (the Literature Blog at York St John University) hosts the #YSJBigSummerRead, in which anyone who wants can join us in reading the same book!
This year #YSJBigSummerRead will take place between 25 July – 5 September. Everyone is welcome to get involved. All you need to do is get the book and share your thoughts and experiences reading it on social media using #YSJBigSummerRead (and please do feel free to tag us directly using @YSJLIT).
The texts below have been nominated by our followers, and now you are invited to vote for which one you’d most like to read this summer! This year’s #YSJBigSummerRead will then be announced on 21 July, giving you just enough time to grab a copy before the Read begins on 25 July.
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones and The Six (2019)
Robert Adams, Plague Dogs (1977)
Alison Rumfitt, Tell Me I’m Worthless (2021)
Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age (2019)
Yaa Gyasi, Homecoming (2016)
Kirsty Capes, Careless (2022)
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963)
Hannah Bourne-Taylor, Fledgling (2022)