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Stacie Vos

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first novel forthcoming in 2027
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a recent performance above a very fine tote bag at a very fine restaurant with lots of fabulous people @yess.restaurant by @bookcradle

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ENROLLING NOW!

Join me for a two-part summer course, BOOKWOMEN

summer 2026
Bookwomen I:
Medieval Women “Lewd, Feeble & Frail”

Tuesdays in June: 2 pm CDT (instructor based in Chicago this month)
OR NOON PST/3 pm EST/8 pm BST (UK)

This portion of the course will explore women readers, writers, owners, and makers of books in the
medieval period with an emphasis on England and English translations of texts in other languages.
Figures include both poetic creations and historical figures from the Wife of Bath, Margaret
Beaufort, Jane Scrope, Juliana Berners and Margery Kempe to Julian of Norwich, Margaret Paston,
Hroswitha of Gandersheim and Christine de Pizan. Consulting excerpts, manuscripts, and objects
from the medieval era, we will investigate what it meant to be a woman reader in the Middle Ages.

Bookwomen II:
Enemies of Books
Tuesdays in August: 9:30 am PST/5:30 pm BST (UK: instructor based here)/12:30 EST

It was once written that women were the enemies of books because they ruined them while cleaning
the house or chucked them into the fire. Bookwomen Part Two looks at how some women in the early 20th century organized themselves around the book, forging individual and community
structures of learning well before women could attend university for formal degrees. These women
looked back to medieval figures as models for an autonomous relationship to the book. Figures
included in our reading will include Virginia Woolf, Belle da Costa Greene and the Hroswitha Club, the
Guild of Women Binders, and Christopher St. John, author of the first Catholic lesbian novel:
Hungerheart.

cost $395* per course or $695 for both
*returning students $300/575 for both; individualized sliding scale for those in need

deadline for part 1
extended preregistration by May 11 ($15 off)
regular registration by May 15
late registration by June 1 (+$30 fee)
for part 2: pre-reg: July 1 ($30 off); regular by July 15; late registration by Aug. 1 (+$30 fee)

contact
stacie.vos@aya.yale.edu

all courses listed on Enclosure Group Blog: see bio!

((ad by the intrepid @jeffrey_stuker )) by @bookcradle

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5 months ago

mini postcards with my micro fictions on the back, created and curated by @europium.studio (@studio.ghazaalvojdani & @juliaandreone), printed by @grafiche_veneziane & set by @bold_decisions by @bookcradle

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a year ago

To the Lighthouse is not just something you read. It will make you never want to leave a porch ever again for any amount of time especially if it’s a pretty porch by @bookcradle

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8 days ago

“To the Reader,” 2026 by @bookcradle

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We are going hybrid with our first in-person lecture hosted by @pictureroomnyc & @salter.house

See you in Brooklyn at the end of the month

⚔️ 🐑 🪦 🦉 🪾 🩸 📜 📖 ✒️🖋️ by @bookcradle

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15 days ago

Miss me with anything that is not this today by @bookcradle

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15 days ago

Morale was low in my intro to college writing class so I gave them Bjorn Quorn and Thomas Wyatt to read outside without me & we had our best discussion yet by @bookcradle

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17 days ago

Thank you to everyone who took part of their Friday last week to discuss what it means to teach. We recorded the salon and will have it on our new website next month.

Courses are enrolling this week with a 20% back to school reduced fee. Come join our community by @bookcradle

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20 days ago

Join us for our very first hybrid course in collaboration with @pictureroomnyc & @salter.house

Class meets virtually and includes a public lecture & reception with respondent @mfoxontherun and moderator @ginabitkowski

Course is $275 (sliding scale); 20% off until October 1, space limited; register via link in our bio

Designs by @jeffrey_stuker who is himself teaching a fantastic course “Myth Today Today” this fall, a great complement to this one by @bookcradle

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21 days ago

a teeming day and was almost trampled by cows if not for the monstrous wires around by @bookcradle

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21 days ago

Sharon Stone in Sliver is everything by @bookcradle

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