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 …

Interview with our outgoing intern Ines Tramarin

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 …

‘Swiping right on the media novel’ – Interview with Dong Xia and Sandro Eich, Guest Editors of ‘Novel Media/Media Novel’ for C21 Literature

Posted by Katie da Cunha Lewin on 2025-11-27

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 …

Call for C21/BACLS Panel Proposals

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 …

Announcing new co-editors and deputy editor of C21: Literature

Posted by Katie da Cunha Lewin on 2025-07-18

We are delighted to announce that Dr Katie da Cunha Lewin and Dr Kiron Ward have been appointed to the Editorship of C21 Literature and that Sunayani Bhattacharya has been appointed to the Deputy Editor Team. Thanks to Dr Caroline Edwards and Professor Sîan Adiseshiah for their stalwart steering of …

Posted by Professor Caroline Edwards on 2025-03-13

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings is the 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. C21 Literature engages with, and makes a significant contribution to, the explosion of interest in 21st-century …

Posted by Professor Caroline Edwards on 2025-01-17

We're delighted to have published a special issue on the narraitve ethics of Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet, edited by Agnes Andeweg (Utrecht University) and Jesse van Amelsvoort (University of Amsterdam). The articles published in this special issue originated at the MLA International Symposium held in Glasgow in June 2022, …

UPDATE: C21 LITERATURE SPECIAL ISSUE: THE CENTURY AT 25

Posted by Siân Adiseshiah on 2024-07-05

The twenty-first century is nearly a quarter done. The contemporary – that category which has so often been theorised, following Barthes and Agamben, as fundamentally out of step with its own time – is starting to synchronise its watch with the temporal bounds of the current century.  

Despite a flurry …

Posted by Professor Caroline Edwards on 2024-01-19

The twenty-first century is nearly a quarter done. The contemporary – that category which has so often been theorised, following Barthes and Agamben, as fundamentally out of step with its own time – is starting to synchronise its watch with the temporal bounds of the current century.

Despite a flurry …

Two C21 opportunities: 1) Deputy Editor 2) Reviews Editor

Posted by Siân Adiseshiah on 2022-09-17

We are pleased to announce that C21 is advertising for two positions: 1) a Deputy Editor and 2) a Reviews Editor. Both these roles require some prior experience of editorial work, peer review, or academic writing and communications. C21 already has two Deputy Editors but is creating an opening …

Posted by Professor Caroline Edwards on 2022-07-07

We're delighted to announce the re-launch of C21!

After ten years of managing the journal, Professor Katy Shaw is standing down as Editor-in-Chief. The British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies has appointed two new Editors-in-Chief: Dr Siân Adiseshiah (Loughborough University) and Dr Caroline Edwards (Birkbeck, University of London). They join …

Posted by Katy Shaw on 2021-02-03

C21 Literature is seeking NEW article submissions for 2021.

Please read the journal submission guidelines and the scope of the journal pages on this site, or take a look at our database of previous publications before submitting. 

If you have any questions relating to a future submission, please email our …