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Dickens Day of Writing 2026: Is Bleak House Too Difficult?
Read more here: dickens.ucsc.edu/dickens-day…
Join illustrator Gerry Mooney at the Dickens Universe for a week-long linocut printmaking workshop inspired by Bleak House.
Read more here dickens.ucsc.edu/learn-the-a…
📚 Missed a Santa Cruz Pickwick Club discussion of Bleak House?
All available chapter discussions are online and can be viewed anytime on our YouTube channel:
dickens.ucsc.edu/programs/sa…
Join Renée Fox (UC Santa Cruz)
“The Mummy at Marsh’s: A Speculative History”
for the 4th annual The Incredible Nineteenth Century Conference
🔗 mtsu.zoom.us/j/82526646539?p…
Victorian dance, live music, casino games, auction & refreshments—an unforgettable night with The Dickens Project.
🎟 Register: dickensproject.company.site/…
Join us for the 2026 Dickens Universe at UC Santa Cruz 🌲📖
📅 July 26–August 1
📚 Bleak House
🎓 Lectures, discussions, film, tea & dance
A weeklong humanities retreat in the redwoods for scholars, students, and readers alike.
Register: dickens.ucsc.edu
Photos from the Dickens Universe Winter 2026 Graduate Student Conference (March 6–8), hosted by Southern Methodist University Department of English and co-sponsored by Rice University and The Dickens Project.
The schedule is live! 📖
Join us July 26–August 1, 2026 for the 46th Annual Dickens Universe at UC Santa Cruz, featuring Bleak House.
Explore lectures, seminars, and community events:
dickens.ucsc.edu/dickens-uni…
The Dickens Project retweeted
Registration Open: Centre for Victorian Studies Colloquium 2026 – ‘New Directions in Nineteenth-Century Studies’ Date: 30 April 2026 (Deadline: 30th March 2026)
victorianist.wordpress.com/2…
watch John O. Jordan's discussion on Bleak House (full vid below)
youtube.com/watch?v=P8turUIH…
Join us Sunday, 03/22 at 1pm on Zoom!
Register here: ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/registe…
Thank you, Santa Cruz 💛
Grateful to our organizers, brilliant students, and to the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for hosting us.
New exhibition opening at the Book Club of California, with remarks by Liz Pollock — author, collector, and proprietor of Cook’s Bookcase.
The exhibition will be on view through July 17, 2026.
Details + RSVP: mailchi.mp/ce59a57b1dcd/join…
We loved seeing DDOW highlighted in The Cricket, celebrating how UCSC’s program continues to mark Charles Dickens’s birthday by bringing students into conversation with his work through reading, reflection, and writing.
read more here dickenssociety.org/the-crick…
The Dickens Project retweeted
Today marks the 214th anniversary of CD’s birth 🥳🎉🎂 Around the world, DF branches will celebrate, upholding our aim to ‘knit together in a common bond of friendship lovers of that great master of humour and pathos, Charles Dickens’
📚✍️ Dickens Day of Writing — Dunwoody, GA
We’re excited to share moments from Dunwoody High School’s Dickens Day of Writing!
Dickens Day of Writing recap! ✍️
On Feb 4, high school students in Santa Cruz & other satellite schools came together to read the opening of Bleak House and write from it!
All pieces will be collected into an anthology publishing later this spring. Stay tuned!
📚 Join us at the Dickens Universe 2026!
Register now—we can’t wait to see you! 📖💛
dickens.ucsc.edu/dickens-uni…
📣 Volunteers needed!
We’re seeking writing mentors for Dickens Day of Writing in Santa Cruz on Feb 4 🖋️📚
Spend the day supporting student writers & celebrating Dickens, creativity, and the joy of writing.
Info & sign-up:
👉 teachers.ucsc.edu/dickens-da…
📚 Fellow Dickensians!
The Philadelphia Dickens Fellowship is also reading Bleak House this year.
dickensphila.org/pages/curre…
