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drstephr.bsky.social
You can now pre-order The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespearean Biofiction! It is really pretty and I have a chapter in it on fictions about Shakespeare's parents and siblings: link.springer.com/book/9783032...
The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespearean Biofiction
This handbook is the first to gather together, within one cover, the multitude of existing and emerging works connected with Shakespeare biofiction.
link.springer.com
September 26, 2026 at 10:03 PM
kipauthor.bsky.social
Your Next Short Read
RESONANCE: a.co/d/0ivO6sPw

#biofiction #novelette #familysecrets #ghoststory #seashells #memories #shortfiction
April 20, 2026 at 9:44 AM
edelsemple.bsky.social
Folks - I am quoted in National Geographic on #Hamnet #Shakespeare!!! 🤩 It energises me to continue research on Shakespeare biofiction with @kscheil.bsky.social and editing our 50 chapter Shakespeare biofiction Handbook - out with Palgrave in 2026!
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
The brief life—and untimely death—of Hamnet Shakespeare
Though little is known about the life of William Shakespeare's only son, historians say his premature death may have shaped the bard's most famous works.
www.nationalgeographic.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
sherryjones.bsky.social
My WIP is biofiction about Billy Tipton, a 20th century transgender male jazz musician with an inspiring story. I'm seeking transgender men to speak with me about their experiences so I can write more authentically from Billy's perspective. Can you help? If so, message me here. Thanks!
May 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
drlauravarnam.bsky.social
It’s been a busy but exciting 1st week here in Oxford! Co-taught the first of our Medievalism seminars on biofiction, gave my first solo lecture at the new humanities centre, taught two study skills sessions & two intro classes to Old and Middle English 💥 Back with a bang, baby! (And now we sleep!)
October 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
drstephr.bsky.social
New publication just dropped!
A picture of the recently published The Routledge Companion to Biofiction An image of the first page of my chapter The Jesus Biofiction in the Twenty-First Century
April 4, 2025 at 1:24 AM
kipauthor.bsky.social
Your Next Short Read
RESONANCE: a.co/d/0ivO6sPw

#biofiction #novelette #familysecrets #ghoststory #seashells #memories #shortfiction
March 24, 2026 at 7:54 PM
realwroth.bsky.social
WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS?????

#earlymodernengland #earlymodern #femalewriters #booktok #renaissance #renaissanceliterature #biofiction #PamphiliasPissed
June 11, 2026 at 8:57 PM
edelsemple.bsky.social
Arrived into the office to find the best of parcels - book post! 📚 💙 “Shakespearean Biofiction on the Contemporary Stage and Screen” is now in paperback and priced to move! 😉 @ardenpublisher.bsky.social #Shakespeare #biofiction
A small pile of paperback books, titled Shakespearean Biofiction on the Contemporary stage and screen. The book cover shows a scene from the film All Is True where Kenneth Branagh as Shakespeare contemplates the loss of his son, while papers rest on a desk in front of him.The book is edited by Edel Semple and Ronan Hatfull and published by Arden. The first Contents page from the book Shakespearean Biofiction on the Contemporary stage and screen, listing chapters 1-7. The book is edited by Edel Semple and Ronan Hatfull and published by Arden. The first Contents page from the book Shakespearean Biofiction on the Contemporary stage and screen, listing chapters 8-16 and the Afterword. The book is edited by Edel Semple and Ronan Hatfull and published by Arden.
July 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
ria4983.bsky.social
Packed my Colm Tóibín biofiction about Henry James & off to MSA!
October 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
heksenhaus.bsky.social
(finally started the real work on my 'what if colin wilson was actually WAY fucking worse' bit of biofiction and i guess we'll see if anything ever really comes of it.)
November 14, 2025 at 3:54 AM
alexandregefen.bsky.social
Parution le 6/2/2025 : www.routledge.com/The-Routledg... trop fier !
The Routledge Companion to Biofiction
The Routledge Companion to Biofiction provides readers with the history, origins, and evolution of this popular genre. Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, this authoritative co...
www.routledge.com
November 22, 2024 at 1:14 PM
edelsemple.bsky.social
Paging the #Shakespeare biofiction contributors who are on Bsky - @austintichenor.bsky.social @gemmaallred.bsky.social @kscheil.bsky.social @helenmonks.bsky.social @emmawhipday.bsky.social @lazbo.bsky.social @stevepurcell.bsky.social @benbroadribb.bsky.social 👏 & 🙏 one and all!
July 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
kipauthor.bsky.social
The Kindle Edition of my newest book—RESONANCE—is now 99 cents for a limited time. You will never listen to a seashell the same way again: a.co/d/3qW3hCM

#5amwritersclub #biofiction #mysticalrealism #paranormal #memory #familysecrets #novelette #KindleBookDeals
December 17, 2025 at 10:25 AM
ardenpublisher.bsky.social
*Out now in paperback*

'Shakespearean Biofiction on the Contemporary Stage and Screen' edited by @edelsemple.bsky.social &‬ Ronan Hatfull
is the first edited collection to explore Shakespeare's life as depicted on the modern stage and screen.

bit.ly/3ZcDet2
July 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
kmjgardiner.bsky.social
It's been a big week of book news here, and in the middle of it this stonking great volume arrived. I have a chapter in it, co-written with my colleague Catherine Padmore, on some recent biofictions of settler wives. Congrats to the editors and all my biofiction studies colleagues.
Book cover of the Routledge Companion to Biofiction
April 9, 2025 at 5:14 AM
nualaoconnor.bsky.social
I'm interviewed by Annalisa Mastronardi on the *In Her View* podcast. We talk biofiction, the sisterhood, the rise of Irish women in publishing & more.
open.spotify.com/episode/0EJF...
March 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
slupodcast.bsky.social
For all #schoollibrarians who have genrefied…I’ve not heard anyone include “bio-fiction.” (Coincidentally) The Personal #Librarian (Benedict & Murray) is a great example. bookriot.com/the-ethics-o...
Is Reimagining History Through Biofiction Ethical?
Wrestling with the ethics of biofiction, or fiction pulled from real people's lives.
bookriot.com
March 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
stevetpurcell.bsky.social
One of the things I love about the discovery reported in today’s Guardian is that it puts paid to the prejudice you see in a lot of biofiction that Anne Shakespeare/Hathaway would have been illiterate. Nope!
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Shakespeare did not leave his wife Anne in Stratford, letter fragment suggests
Professor says text shows Hathaway lived with playwright in London, upending the established idea of an unhappy marriage
www.theguardian.com
April 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
mariajuko.bsky.social
This starts today for me!! Can't wait to see and hear all these wonderful speakers and their presentations! I'll be speaking about Brontë biofiction tomorrow 🌸
June 3, 2025 at 4:41 AM
edelsemple.bsky.social
Shakespeareans! Join me & @kscheil.bsky.social in Atlanta for our @saaupdates.bsky.social seminar on #shakespeare & his family in biofiction and biography. #shax2027 registration deadline is 15 Sept. #hamnet
A call for papers for a seminar at an academic conference (SAA), that includes a description of the seminar and images of Shakespeare and family from biofictions about them.
August 30, 2026 at 11:43 AM
mariajuko.bsky.social
Early Christmas present: my article on biofictional graphic novels about Mary Shelley! To you all and to myself 🎄☺️

ejlw.eu/article/view...
A Woman Haunted: How Graphic Biofiction Revises Mary Shelley’s Early Feminist Life | European Journal of Life Writing
ejlw.eu
December 14, 2024 at 6:57 PM
comicsgrid.com
New in the journal! To close this year's volume (volume 15!): Everywoman’s Story: Reading Abortion Eve and Not Funny Ha Ha as Graphic Biofiction and Zóéfiction doi.org/10.16995/cg.... #ComicsStudies @openlibhums.org #OpenAccess
Everywoman’s Story: Reading <em>Abortion Eve</em> and <em>Not Funny Ha Ha</em> as Graphic Biofiction and Zóéfiction
This article discusses two American pro-choice comics in the wider context of graphic biofiction. One is the now legendary Joyce Farmer and Lyn Chevli’s Abortion Eve (1973) and the other is Leah Hayes...
doi.org
December 12, 2025 at 11:20 AM
emer.bsky.social
if anyone is looking to commission writing on chloé zhao’s hamnet over the next few months:
💀 @edelsemple.bsky.social is the undisputed queen of shakespeare biofiction studies
💀 i myself specialise in irish shakespeares (especially actors), and celebrity casting.

let us write/give talks for u!
October 13, 2025 at 10:11 AM
edelsemple.bsky.social
Interested in #Hamnet, this year’s big release headlined by two Irish stars? Want to know more about the film’s origins, #Shakespeare’s life on screen, and the hot trend that is #biofiction? Read my article on @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social hot off the (online) press! #PaulMescal #JessieBuckley
January 7, 2026 at 12:41 PM