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the contemporary and its curiosities
Our second academic job market materials workshop starts this Friday with @mitchrmurray.bsky.social. Sign up here: tinyurl.com/36fvvctv More info on our website: mid-theory.com/mtc-writing-...
To kickoff our summer workshop series, MTC will host a workshop on the book proposal process, featuring senior editors at three different university presses. Our meeting will take place on Friday June 5 @ 3pm ET. Sign up below to receive the zoom link. mid-theory.com/mtc-writing-...
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"Treated as a blight on the landscape of modern media, fanfic has become an easy scapegoat when the relationship between aesthetics, profit, and prestige falls out of alignment." You can read other pieces in the series here: mid-theory.com/category/cha...
MTC is running a series of reading & writing groups this spring & summer. Our first reading group on the recent English translation of Punjabi novella Keeru by Fauzia Rafique hosted by Nico Millman & the translator Haider Shabaz will meet on April 15 @ 6pm ET. Sign up here: tinyurl.com/yfvycxut
Our monthly newsletter just went out. And because humans, committed and overcommitted humans do our homework the newsletter which goes out on February 23 can have "January" in its subject line. Check out what we have been up to and what is coming! tinyurl.com/53tanrns
MTC New Year's Letter from our editor-in-chief plus our editors' picks of 2025. Thank you everyone for helping us have a great year! See you next year and happy holidays ✨ tinyurl.com/bddh3y4r
Our reading group on NEVADA starts in about two weeks! Get your copy of this brilliant, funny, trailblazing trans novel and join us on October 16th @ 5:30 ET. Sign up here: tinyurl.com/4yj7xj8p
MTC has partnered with Chicago Review for a pitch workshop on October 9 @ 6pm ET. Want to try your hands in public writing, not sure how to approach editors, how to pitch your idea? Join us for a discussion of our respective processes as well as general conversations about best practices.
MTC first reading group on the award-winning translated stories HEART LAMP by Banu Mushtaq will take place tomorrow Sept. 18 at 5pm ET. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
MTC is running two reading groups this fall. The first starts later this month. We will be reading HEART LAMP, a collection of short stories in translation and the first meeting is September 18. Get your books now and join us!! Sign up below: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Where has summer gone?? Well, for MTC a large junk of it was spent in and on Praiseworthy. Our final meeting on the book will take place tomorrow afternoon, August 6 @5pm ET on Zoom. Sign up below! docs.google.com/forms/u/2/d/...
The first one went so well that MTC will be running two more of these workshops over the summer. Sign up here: mid-theory.com/mtc-writing-...
We are so delighted to introduce our first cohort of contributing writers—critics and thinkers who exemplify the spirit of what we want MTC to be. We are grateful for their work and thrilled to have them on board as we continue to grow and evolve!
In addition to our reading groups, MTC will host a writing workshop on job market materials this summer. First meeting will be June 27th @ 2pm ET. Second meeting first week of August, date TBD. More information: mid-theory.com/mtc-writing-...
This summer MTC will be running two reading groups, one fiction and one theory. We hope you can join us for one or both. You can find more information on our website: mid-theory.com/reading/
We like big novels and we cannot lie! What contemporary novel should MTC read this summer? Drop your recommendations in the comments, the longer the novel the better. #bigbooksummer
The editorial board of Mid Theory Collective is sponsoring a seminar at ASAP/16 on our working conditions. Please share and consider submitting to it! asap16.exordo.com/submissions/...
MTC March Reading: in association with our upcoming forum on romance, we will be reading Alexis Hall's A LADY FOR A DUKE, a queer historical romance. Our romance forum explores what romance, as a genre, offers its readers. How better to dive into that question than to read some romance ourselves!
INTRODUCING: MTC Oscars series! Just in time for Oscar nominations this coming Thursday. For the month of February, we'll run an ongoing series (with work from almost 30 writers) of essays, reviews, blurbs, & conversations about a whole range of Oscar frontrunners and hopefuls.
Join us tomorrow, January 21 at 7:30 for a discussion of John Berger's Ways of Seeing. All are welcome! Details on our website mid-theory.com/reading/ Our January read is in connection to our upcoming forum “Seeing and the Gaze” to be published later in the month.
Good day to revisit John Fredericks's essay on Ali Abbasi's "The Apprentice" and the myth-making machine of american democracy mid-theory.com/2024/12/09/a...
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MTC's 2nd meeting on Percival Everett's 'James' will be this Tuesday Nov. 26 @7:30pm EST. We had a great conversation last time. Come even if you didn't come to the first meeting, even if you've not read all of it! Details here: mid-theory.com/reading/