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Dr Laura Varnam
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Tutor in Eng Lit @UnivOxford. Church as Sacred Space 2018. Encountering Margery Kempe 2021. Primers 7 @NineArchesPress 2024. Writing a bk on Du Maurier. she/her
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    Dr Laura Varnam
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    Aug 8, 2024
    IT'S PUBLICATION DAY!! So exciting!!!! 🍾🥂🎉✨ Thank you to @halekatie @CommaJane & everyone who has supported my poetry! My family, my Univ family, my friends & mentors! (Incl. @BetaRish @poetclare 🙏) Can't wait for my copies of the book to arrive & to meet Jade & Antonia irl!
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    Nine Arches Press
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    Aug 8, 2024
    Publication day for PRIMERS, our 7th nationwide #poetry search for new voices. Congratulations @JadeCuttle Antonia Taylor & @lauravarnam & special thanks to selecting editor @halekatie Explore myth, heritage & identity in poems by 3 distinctive writers 📖 buff.ly/46EJVqn
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    Dr Laura Varnam
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    Jul 26, 2024
    #medievaltwitter collectively whoops for Christine de Pizan! @ciditcharlotte #OpeningCeremony
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    Dr Laura Varnam
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    Jan 25, 2018
    MY BOOK ARRIVED!!!!!! 😳😁💃🏼🙌🏻
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    Dr Laura Varnam
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    Sep 13, 2024
    I’ve wanted these for ages! £3 each in a secondhand bookshop! Bargain!
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    Dr Laura Varnam
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    Nov 17, 2021
    And here she is!!! I could not be more thrilled to be holding ‘Encountering The Book of #MargeryKempe’ (publ. by @ManchesterUP) in my hands! Enormous thanks to all the contributors and to my partner in crime @LauraKalas 🙏🏻🥳 Couldn’t have done it without you! ❤️
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    Dr Laura Varnam
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    Nov 14, 2022
    HWAET! We Gar-Dena in geardagum…
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    Agatha Chocolats
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    Nov 13, 2022
    In six words or fewer, write a story about this photo. #sixwordstory #WritingCommunity
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    Dr Laura Varnam
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    Oct 26, 2023
    What’s the collective noun for Riverside Chaucers? 😄 (Three of these belong to my students!!)
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    Dr Laura Varnam
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    Jul 21, 2018
    #medievaltwitter it’s the photo you’ve all been waiting for!! Our @kriemhildsrache has GRADUATED!! ⭐️🎓💐
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    Dr Laura Varnam
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    Jun 4, 2019
    Thrilled that my article on Harry Potter, Julian of Norwich, and Medieval Pity has been officially accepted by Studies in Medievalism!
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    Dr Laura Varnam
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    Nov 8, 2019
    No I’m not having a little cry in my office because the paperback copies of my book have arrived. Thank you @ManchesterUP 🙏🏻
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    Dr Laura Varnam
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    Sep 30, 2016
    I'VE DONE IT! I've submitted my book!!!!!!!
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    Dr Laura Varnam
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    Feb 7, 2024
    I was delighted to be able to share my Mum’s Pearl-inspired embroidery in my Medievalisms lecture today! (At least until the projection screen decided to roll itself up and I couldn’t make it unroll!! Technology eh!)
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    Dr Laura Varnam
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    Mar 5, 2023
    The English Faculty moonlighting as Oxford Police Station in Endeavour this evening! @engfac #endeavour
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    Dr Laura Varnam
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    Sep 1, 2018
    HOW EXCITED AM I ABOUT MY BOOKSHELVES?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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