The Wordsworth Winter Conference 2027
Wednesday 3rd March - Saturday 6th March
Call for Papers
The Wordsworth Winter Conference 2027 will take place March 3rd-6th in the Reading Room of the Jerwood Centre at Wordsworth Grasmere, UK.
The conference theme is "Romanticism and the Visual". This covers visual arts, including forms like the panorama and diorama, as well as the illustrated book, but also the idea of vision and the visionary, and research by contemporaries into optics and the physiology of vision. As always, proposals on any Romantic-era subject will also be considered. As it is the bicentenary of Blake's death, papers on Blake are especially encouraged.
Lecturers will include Ruth Abbott of St. John's College, Cambridge, Amy Concannon, Manton Senior Curator of Historic British Art at the Tate Gallery, and Jamie Castell and Nate Mann will perform "Mimic hoots and redoubled echoes: Wordsworth and Schwitters’ Lakeland Soundscapes."
The Winter Conference is non-residential. We recommend the Daffodil Hotel, just across the street from Dove Cottage and the Jerwood Centre, or the Swan Hotel, just up the A 591.
Please submit 250-word proposals to proposal.wsc@gmail.com by November 1st, 2026; we will aim to have acceptances informed within 7 days after this deadline.
Registration
The registration fee for the Wordsworth Winter Conference 2027 is £235.
Registration will open on 1st October 2026.
Bursaries
More information regarding bursaries for the Wordsworth Winter Conference 2027 will be available soon.
Accommodation
The Wordsworth Winter Conference 2027 is non-residential. Participants should make their own lodging arrangements.
We recommend the following hotels in Grasmere:
The Daffodil: https://www.daffodilhotel.co.uk/
The Swan: https://www.inncollectiongroup.com/the-swan-grasmere/
Tweedies: https://www.tweediesgrasmere.com/
For those on a budget, we recommend the nearby youth hostel, YHA Grasmere:
https://www.yha.org.uk/hostel/yha-grasmere-butharlyp-howe
Or YHA Ambleside:
https://www.yha.org.uk/hostel/yha-ambleside
You can book a shared dorm or a private room here.
Travel
Train
If you are coming from the South, you can get a train to Windermere. From here it is a simple bus ride to Grasmere.
To research rail connections we suggest using:
https://www.thetrainline.com/
Bus
Once you are in Windermere, you can get the 555 or 599 bus from directly outside the
station. These are regular and will take you directly to Grasmere:
https://www.stagecoachbus.com/timetables
Travelling from Outside the UK
We recommend flying into Manchester airport. From here there is a direct train to
Windermere. There are also frequent trains to Oxenholme - you can easily change at this station for Windermere.
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