Author Archives: lauravarnam

At the end of last year I was absolutely delighted to have two more of my Beowulf poems published! The first, Her Wordhoard, was published by the marvellous online literary journal Bad Lilies: you can find it in issue ten … Continue reading →

HWAET everyone! I am delighted to share the open access link to my new poems and creative-critical article in the journal postmedieval: ‘Poems for the Women of Beowulf: A ‘Contemporary Medieval’ Project’. Available here. The piece focuses on seven new … Continue reading →

HWAET everyone! I’m delighted to have had two more poems from my Beowulf-inspired poetry collection published over the last week! Both poems were inspired by the moment when the unnamed Geatish woman mourns at Beowulf’s funeral pyre. This is the … Continue reading →

Next week will see lots of medievalists jet off to the International Medieval Congress in Leeds. Sadly I won’t be attending but my partner-in-crime Laura Kalas and I were delighted to have the opportunity to write a blogpost for the … Continue reading →

So last week, June 2022, I resubmitted an article… an article that I had a ‘revise and resubmit’ decision on in July 2021! I posted a twitter thread on the resubmission and thought I’d write it up here, not least … Continue reading →

I was absolutely delighted to receive my editor copies of Encountering The Book of Margery Kempe (Manchester University Press, 2021) this week! And indeed on the very day- the one day per year!- that I get to teach Margery Kempe! … Continue reading →

Last week I gave a talk in the English Faculty about Academic Blogging and Social Media for graduate students. I gave a similar talk on blogging a couple of years ago and wrote up my advice in this post. In … Continue reading →

I was thrilled to be invited back to join the Hallowe’en gang at Backlisted for their episode on Elizabeth Jane Howard’s 1969 novel Something in Disguise, alongside regular Hallowe’en guest Andrew Male. You can listen to the episode at this … Continue reading →

My partner-in-crime Laura Kalas and I run the Margery Kempe Society and we have finally got our blog up and running over at our website! We will be hosting some great blogposts over the coming months from early career researchers … Continue reading →

Hwaet everyone! It’s continued to be a fun summer on the Beowulf front here! In the last couple of weeks two of my Old English inspired poems have been published online. Many thanks to Ink, Sweat & Tears for publishing … Continue reading →