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The Poetry Caucus holds annual meetings and dinners at each NAVSA conference as well as online events throughout the year. All Victorian poetry scholars are welcome to contact us to join our listserv.
We've been posting CfPs on our website again! Check it out for links to exciting 2026 conferences on Tennyson and Hopkins.
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![Another stellar issue of VICTORIAN POETRY is now live! The full issue is open access. Its contents are as follows:
ANNA RIVERS, “‘Life whetted upon life’: Mathilde Blind, The Ascent of Man, and the Geological Record”
BLANCA SANTONJA, “Musical Lights: Illuminating the Shadows in Tennyson’s The Princess”
Syntheses of THE YEAR’S WORK in the field, featuring contributions by SUZANNE BAILEY (on Robert Browning), GALIA BENZIMAN (on Thomas Hardy), VERONICA ALFANO (on Gerard Manley Hopkins), FLORENCE S. BOOS (on Pre-Raphaelitism, Dante G. Rossetti, and William Morris), JUSTIN A. SIDER (on Algernon Charles Swinburne), LINDA K. HUGHES (on Alfred Lord Tennyson), and HEATHER BOZANT WITCHER (on women poets)
Victorian Poetry also invites submissions for its 2025 Early Career Essay Prize, which recognizes exemplary essays by untenured scholars of all ranks and affiliations (including contingently employed and graduate student colleagues). Conferred on an annual basis, the prize carries an award of $500 and publication in Victorian Poetry. Strong essays that do not win the award may also be considered for publication as recommended by the prize committee. Applications are due 25 August 2025. Scholars wishing to be considered should submit anonymized MS Word essays and brief CVs to victorianpoetryjournal [at] gmail [dot] com with “Early Career Prize” in the subject line. Prior to submission, please consult our guidelines for authors.
For more information about the journal’s latest initiatives, visit our Scholastica webpage. Direct proposals and queries to journal editor Devin M. Garofalo (University of California, San Diego) at victorianpoetryjournal [at] gmail [dot] com.
Scholastica webpage address: https://victorian-poetry.scholasticahq.com](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7wjnxcnrdzx6s4zgv4fyajgp/bafkreifeo6izxhjf36gktge4w2xuw3njveyar3goroqynkf3ghunqaey5q)
Another stellar issue of VICTORIAN POETRY is now live! The full issue is open access. Its contents are as follows: ANNA RIVERS, “‘Life whetted upon life’: Mathilde Blind, The Ascent of Man, and the Geological Record” BLANCA SANTONJA, “Musical Lights: Illuminating the Shadows in Tennyson’s The Princess” Syntheses of THE YEAR’S WORK in the field, featuring contributions by SUZANNE BAILEY (on Robert Browning), GALIA BENZIMAN (on Thomas Hardy), VERONICA ALFANO (on Gerard Manley Hopkins), FLORENCE S. BOOS (on Pre-Raphaelitism, Dante G. Rossetti, and William Morris), JUSTIN A. SIDER (on Algernon Charles Swinburne), LINDA K. HUGHES (on Alfred Lord Tennyson), and HEATHER BOZANT WITCHER (on women poets) Victorian Poetry also invites submissions for its 2025 Early Career Essay Prize, which recognizes exemplary essays by untenured scholars of all ranks and affiliations (including contingently employed and graduate student colleagues). Conferred on an annual basis, the prize carries an award of $500 and publication in Victorian Poetry. Strong essays that do not win the award may also be considered for publication as recommended by the prize committee. Applications are due 25 August 2025. Scholars wishing to be considered should submit anonymized MS Word essays and brief CVs to victorianpoetryjournal [at] gmail [dot] com with “Early Career Prize” in the subject line. Prior to submission, please consult our guidelines for authors. For more information about the journal’s latest initiatives, visit our Scholastica webpage. Direct proposals and queries to journal editor Devin M. Garofalo (University of California, San Diego) at victorianpoetryjournal [at] gmail [dot] com. Scholastica webpage address: https://victorian-poetry.scholasticahq.com
A new issue of Victorian poetry is live — open access and full of incredible new work! We are also continuing to accept submissions for the 2025 Early Career Essay Prize. See the image / alt-text for more info. Please share widely! muse.jhu.edu/issue/55160
Victorian Poetry invites submissions for its 2025 Early Career Essay Prize, which recognizes exemplary essays by untenured scholars of all ranks and affiliations (including contingently employed and graduate student colleagues). Conferred on an annual basis, the prize carries an award of $500 and publication in Victorian Poetry. Strong essays that do not win the award may also be considered for publication as recommended by the prize committee. Applications are due 4 August 2025. Scholars wishing to be considered should submit anonymized MS Word essays and brief CVs to victorianpoetryjournal@gmail.com with “Early Career Essay Prize” in the subject line. Prior to submission, consult our guidelines for authors. Winning articles will be selected according to three criteria: (1) significance of contribution to the field of Victorian poetry (including its involvement with Victorian studies and other areas of inquiry in or beyond literary studies); (2) excellence of research, interpretation, and method; and (3) efficacy of presentation. The journal continues to expand its purview to a wider compass of archives and approaches. We welcome work that capaciously (re)interprets the field's originary contexts and reconsiders Victorian poetry (broadly construed) in new, innovative, cross-disciplinary, theoretical, and / or experimental ways. For author guidelines, see the following link: https://victorian-poetry.scholasticahq.com
Excited to share the call for Victorian Poetry’s 2025 Early Career Prize! Please circulate widely. Happy to answer any questions (see the attached CFP for more details)!
The NAVSA Victorian Poetry Caucus is now on bluesky. We're excited to see you all in D.C. in November, rhythms of plane travel permitting.