Wordsworth Winter Conference 2027
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, Dean Hines, Visitor Experience Supervisor at the Wordsworth Trust, 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 and a short biographical introduction to proposal.wsc@gmail.com by November 1st, 2026; we will aim to have acceptances informed within 7 days after this deadline.
Please note that proposal submissions for the Wordsworth Winter Conference 2027 are now closed.
If you would like to attend as a general delegate, please see information regarding registration below.
Registration
The registration fee for the Wordsworth Winter Conference 2027 is £250*.
Please register via the button below:
*Members & Friends of the Wordsworth Conference Foundation receive a 10% discount on their registration fee.
Bursaries
There are three £315 bursaries available for postgraduate presenters for the Wordsworth Winter Conference 2027.
For more information regarding bursaries, please click here:
Conference Dinner
An optional conference dinner will be held on the evening of Friday 5th March 2027 at Tweedies, Grasmere. Tickets for this dinner are at a discounted price of £20.00 for conference delegates*. If you would like to attend the conference dinner, please mark this on your registration form.
*Please note that any additional dinner guests who are not attending the conference will need to pay the full dinner price of £42.95.
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
The nearest train station is Windermere.
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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