C21: Journal of 21st-century Writings is a diamond Open Access journal, and the official affiliated journal of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS). The journal is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publication, and circulation of 21st-century writings. Originally launched in 2012, and open access since 2016, C21 aims to create a critical, discursive space for the promotion and exploration of 21st-century writings in English.
Volume 13 • Issue 1 • 2026 • Summer 2026
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Posted by Katie da Cunha Lewin on 2026-06-05
From February until May 2026 C21 Literature hosted an Open Access Academic Publishing and Academic Communication intern through the StARIS programme at St Andrews University. This semester, our intern, Anna Macleod, worked on a range of tasks at the journal. We asked Anna to reflect on her work at C21. Tell us a little about yourself, and what interested you in this role. Hi, my name is Anna [...]
Posted by Katie da Cunha Lewin on 2026-02-09
C21 is inviting scholars and researchers to contribute book review essays for upcoming issues. We currently have a selection of titles published in 2025 available for review, spanning film and media studies, cultural studies, and gender and sexuality studies. We invite prospective authors to submit ideas for review essays that discuss 2–3 recently published scholarly texts, published within the [...]
Posted by Katie da Cunha Lewin on 2026-01-23
From October until December 2025 C21 Literature hosted an Open Access Academic Publishing and Academic Communication intern through the StARIS programme at St Andrews University. Our intern, Ines Tramarin, worked on various aspects of our social media strategy. As she's concluded her time with us now, we asked her to reflect on her experience. Tell us a little about yourself, and what [...]
Posted by Katie da Cunha Lewin on 2025-11-26
During their shared time as doctoral candidates at the University of St Andrews, Dr Dong Xia and Dr Sandro Eich came up with the idea of a collection of essays on the relationship between digital media and contemporary fiction, and proposed a special issue of C21 Literature in 2023. Two years and two doctorates later, ‘Novel Media / Media Novel’ was published in November 2025. Dong is currently [...]
Posted by Katie da Cunha Lewin on 2025-11-07
BACLS members are warmly invited to submit proposals for panels for the upcoming British Association for American Studies (BAAS) and British Association of Modernist Studies (BAMS) conferences in collaboration with the Modernist Studies Association. The proposed panels would sit under the combined banner of BACLS/C21 and would act to bring together research on contemporary literary studies [...]