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- The Byron Journal Essay PrizeAbout the prize The Byron Journal is delighted to invite submissions to the new annual essay competition (see below for eligibility) that will be judged by a panel of experts in the field. Since its inception in 1973, the Journal has become widely read in many different countries and enjoys a major international reputation. This competition aims to promote scholarly work that provides new perspectives on Byron, his circle, and second-generation Romantic-period writers. We invite essays that consider Byron, or other related canonical and non-canonical figures, including influences and afterlives. We particularly welcome articles that develop original arguments across a range of methodological approaches. Eligibility The competition is open to postgraduate students, untenured faculty, and independent scholars working outside the academy, and postdoctoral scholars up to three years post viva (the competition is global; there are no entry restrictions based upon nationality). The submission deadline is 1 December 2025. All essays are subject to an anonymous peer review by a panel of established experts in Romantic Studies, chaired by Dr Maria Schoina (Aristotle) and Dr Madeleine Callaghan (Sheffield). The winner will be awarded £150 and a featured publication in the Journal. Submissions Essays should be submitted via email to the Editor: Dr Mirka Horová (Charles, Prague): miroslava.horova@ff.cuni.cz. Please include PRIZE in the submission title. Essays should be no longer than 7,500 and no shorter than 5,000 words (including endnotes). Submissions should meet the Journal’s criteria for publication. Download The Guidelines for Contributors. (If you include supplementary figures with your article, please also provide alt text. For more information, see our guide to alt text.) Contributions should be original and should not have been previously published in any form, including all forms of electronic publication. Contributors are required to assign copyright to Liverpool University Press. Please note that your essay must conform to the MHRA style. Please consult the guide which can be found at http://www.mhra.org.uk/style. The author’s identity must not be identifiable in any way from the essay (electronic tags, such as those on Microsoft Word, should be removed). Only one submission per person is allowed. The panel’s decision is final.
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We’re proud of all the events we’ve organised over the years, and like to keep track of them here.

The Byronic Austen

🗓 14/05/2026 5:00 pm
🗺️ National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
📢 Prof Richard Cronin
Lies and Legacies: Thomas Wildman’s Curation of Byron’s Life at Newstead Abbey

🗓 24/03/2026 5:30 pm
🗺️ Online
📢 Dr Sam Hirst
Volcanic Gothic: From Lord Byron to Lord of the Rings

🗓 26/02/2026 5:30 pm
🗺️ Online
📢 Dr Laura Eastlake
Beppo: A Reading and Discussion

🗓 22/01/2026 6:30 pm
🗺️ Art Workers Guild, Bloomsbury, London
📢 Dr Christine Kenyon Jones and others
Byron Lives On!

🗓 18/12/2025 6:30 pm
🗺️ Art Workers Guild, London
📢 Hugh Thomson
The Hidden Language of Memory in Byron’s Giaour

🗓 17/07/2025 5:30 pm
🗺️ Online
📢 Grace Rexroth
Living With Byron

🗓 30/04/2025 6:30 pm
🗺️ Art Workers' Guild
📢 Geoffrey Bond
“Satan Singing” or, Revolutionary Music and Freedom’s Song in Byron, Pushkin, and Mickiewicz

🗓 13/11/2025 5:30 pm
🗺️ Online
📢 Jonathan Gross
2025 Newstead Abbey Byron Conference

🗓 25/04/2025 12:00 pm
🗺️ Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire
Byron & Translation roundtable

🗓 26/02/2025 5:30 pm
🗺️ Online
📢 Maria Schoina and Alex Grammatikos (and other contributors)
The Pleasure of the Perilous Woods: Byron’s Literary and Cultural Legacies in Tolkien’s Middle Earth

🗓 04/12/2025 5:30 pm
🗺️ Online
📢 Will Sherwood
Byron’s Greek Legacy Lives on in The Byron Journal

🗓 30/10/2025 5:30 pm
🗺️ Online
📢 Alexander Grammatikos
Byron’s Relics

🗓 17/09/2025 6:30 pm
🗺️ Art Workers Guild, London
📢 Mathelinda Nabugodi
The First Modern Biography: Leigh Hunt’s ‘Lord Byron and some of his Contemporaries’

🗓 19/06/2025 5:00 pm
🗺️ Art Workers' Guild, London
📢 AGM 5-6.15pm; 6.15-7 Drinks; 7-8 Nicholas Roe Lecture
Are Walter Scott & Lord Byron Scotland’s Greatest Writers?

🗓 28/05/2025 5:30 pm
🗺️ Edinburgh University, Project Room 1.06
📢 Bernard Beatty
‘Dark-Eyed Maids & Dusky Moors: Byron & Romantic Spanish Orientalism

🗓 26/03/2025 6:30 pm
🗺️ Art Workers Guild, London
📢 Diego Saglia
David Baillie Warden: Transnational Man of Mystery

🗓 22/01/2025 5:30 pm
🗺️ ONLINE
📢 Dr Jennifer Orr
the Burial of Lord Byron

🗓 18/12/2024 6:30 pm
🗺️ Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 3AT
📢 Philippa Jennings and Andrew Mitchell
Byron and the Janissary Vampires of the Ottoman Empire

🗓 16/10/2024 5:30 pm
🗺️ Online
📢 Dr Piya Pal-Lapinski
Encountering Byron at Newstead

🗓 27/11/2024 5:30 pm
🗺️ ONLINE
📢 Dr Sam Hirst

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