Join the Katherine Mansfield Society
Patron: Dame Jacqueline Wilson
Annual membership starts from date of joining and includes the following benefits:
- Free copy of Katherine Mansfield Studies, the Society’s prestigious annual journal published by Edinburgh University Press, including free on-line access (worth £25).
- Three on-line newsletters per year, packed with information, news, reviews and much more.
- Regular email bulletins with the latest news on anything related to KM and/or the Society (over 100 sent in 2010)
- Reduced price fees for all KMS conferences.
- 20% discount on all books published by Edinburgh University Press
- Special member offers.
- In addition, your membership fee goes to support the work of the KMS, a charitable organisation, which aims to promote worldwide awareness of Katherine Mansfield and her work. We have many projects in the pipeline, including collaboration on a Mansfield sculpture in her home town of Wellington, the setting up of international scholarships, and the continuing enhancement of our website, making it the world’s most comprehensive on-line information hub on anything and everything to do with Katherine Mansfield. If you enjoy browsing through our website, the result of hundreds of hours of work by volunteers, please show your support by becoming a member.
Latest News
KM Birthday Lecture 2012 Tickets now available
26 April 2012
Tickets for the 2012 Katherine Mansfield Birthday Lecture are available for purchase. More details can be found at the KM Birthday Lecture event page.
Fourth Essay Competition: KM and the (Post)colonial
12 April 2012
The Katherine Mansfield Society is pleased to announce its fourth essay competition, open to all, on the subject of:
KATHERINE MANSFIELD THIRD ESSAY PRIZE COMPETITION RESULTS
2 April 2012
The Katherine Mansfield Society is pleased to announce the winner of its third international essay prize competition, on the theme of ‘Katherine Mansfield and the Fantastic’. The judges, Professor Susan Sellers and Dr Marie Mulvey-Roberts, chaired by Professor Gina Wisker, were unanimous in their view that one of the essays submitted was outstanding in the originality of its approach and in the subtlety of its expression.
Kevin Boon Novella Kezia now available to purchase
30 March 2012
Kevin Boon Novella Kezia is now available to purchase through the KMS Shop
CFP: KMS International Symposium, Crans-Montana, Switzerland
22 March 2012
CALL FOR PAPERS: INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF KATHERINE MANSFIELD
Hosted by the British Residents Association and the English Department of the University of Geneva, together with the Katherine Mansfield Society
CRANS-MONTANA, SWITZERLAND
22-23 SEPTEMBER 2012
To be introduced by the New Zealand Ambassador
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Witi Ihimaera, Angela Smith, Gerri Kimber
REGISTRATION FOR KATHERINE MANSFIELD AND EUROPE NOW LIVE
21 March 2012
Please find a link below to the dedicated website for the ‘Katherine Mansfield in Europe’ conference to be held on 27-29 June in Ruzomberok, Slovakia.
Kevin Boon's dramatisation of ‘The Garden Party’
17 November 2011
Kevin Boon has very kindly made available to Society members his dramatisation of ‘The Garden Party’. The Eastbourne Drama Group recently staged a production of this adaptation, directed by John Marwick (who has previously directed and performed at the 'Old Vic').
Katherine Mansfield Studies Journal Vol. 3
7 October 2011
Katherine Mansfield Studies Journal Vol 3, October 2011 is now available for purchase via our online shop.
New book announcement by Gerardo Rodríguez Salas and Isabel-Maria Andres-Cuevas
7 October 2011
We are delighted to announce a new book publication by KMS member Gerardo Rodríguez Salas and Isabel-Maria Andres-Cuevas, with a foreword by KMS President, Vincent O’Sullivan:
http://mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=8448&pc=9
Invitation: Garden Party Book Launch
22 September 2011
You are cordially invited to the launch of Kevin Boon’s novella: Kezia (Based on Katherine Mansfield’s childhood in New Zealand)
When? Friday, December 2 at 5 p.m.
Where? Katherine Mansfield’s Birthplace, 25 Tinakori Road, Thorndon
Dress? A colourful sunhat and whatever else you wish.
KMS Newsletter 9 now available
2 September 2011
The latest KMS Newsletter is now available for memers to view online.
Katherine Mansfield on New Zealand Television
26 August 2011
This feature can be watched online, by following the "watch on demand" link at the webpage available at the link provided below. This may not be available for viewing outside NZ.
Woman of Words: Katherine Mansfield by Virginia King
16 June 2011
October Gallery Club Room, 24 Old Gloucester St., London WC1N 3AL
Saturday 25th June, 12.30 pm to 1.30 pm
KATHERINE MANSFIELD AND CONTINENTAL EUROPE
6 June 2011
Conference and CFP: Slovakia 2012
KATHERINE MANSFIELD AND CONTINENTAL EUROPE
Essay Prize 2011 Winner and Essay Prize 2012
12 May 2011
The Katherine Mansfield Society is pleased to announce the name of the winner of its second international essay prize competition, on the theme of ‘Katherine Mansfield and the Arts’. The judges, Kirsty Gunn and Vincent O’Sullivan, chaired by Angela Smith, were unanimous in their view that one of the essays, written by a postgraduate student, was outstanding in the originality of its approach and in the subtlety of its expression.
Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism edited by Janet Wilson, Gerri Kimber and Susan Reid
11 May 2011
New selection of essays on Katherine Mansfield. Published by Continuum
Celebrating Katherine Mansfield: A Centenary Volume of Essays edited by Gerri Kimber and Janet Wilson.
11 May 2011
New volume of essays on Katherine Mansfield: Palgrave Macmillan
Katherine Mansfield is to once again grace the streets of Wellington
11 May 2011
‘Woman of Words’, a sculpture commemorating the life and work of Wellington and New Zealand’s most internationally recognised literary figure, Katherine Mansfield, has been selected for Midland Park on Lambton Quay in Wellington.
THE KATHERINE MANSFIELD SOCIETY’S SECOND BIRTHDAY LECTURE
3 April 2011
Sunday 16 October, 2pm, at The Open University in Camden, London.
Call for Submissions: Katherine Mansfield and the Fantastic
30 March 2011
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR VOLUME 4 OF
KMS Conference. Shaping Modernism: Katherine Mansfield and her Contemporaries
26 January 2011
25-26th March 2011, Cambridge, UK
Registration is now open for the above conference. Please click here for more details and to access the booking form and poster. If you work in a university, we would be grateful if you could print a copy and display it in your Department.
The provisional conference schedule will be posted on this website shortly.
New publication: BLOOMSBURY WOMEN & THE WILD COLONIAL GIRL
22 November 2010
New publication: BLOOMSBURY WOMEN & THE WILD COLONIAL GIRL
2010 KMS Christmas Cards available now
4 November 2010
The KMS annual christmas card is now available to purchase through our online shop. Limited numbers of the 2009 Christmas card are also available.
Katherine Mansfield Studies Journal Vol. 2
1 November 2010
Katherine Mansfield Studies Journal Vol 2, October 2010 is now available for purchase via our online shop.
Inaugural birthday lecture: Updated
21 October 2010
Birthday Lecture 2010: Photos now available to view! The lecture itself is now available to purchase as a booklet here in our shop.
New book by Jenny McDonnell - Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Marketplace
10 August 2010
Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Marketplace: At the Mercy of the Public
by Jenny McDonnell
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
ISBN: 978-0230234796, 232 pages
Release date: 4 August 2010
KMS members are entitled to a huge 50% discount if they order online before the end of September 2010.
Click here for more details
Circulating Genius By Sydney Janet Kaplan
25 July 2010
NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Circulating Genius: John Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield and D. H. Lawrence
by Sydney Janet Kaplan, Professor of English at the University of Washington
On The Rocks by Amy Rosenthal
13 July 2010
On the Rocks is Amy Rosenthal’s brilliantly funny play based on the episode in 1916 where Katherine Mansfield, John Middleton Murry spent a few fraught weeks in Cornwall with D. H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda. It was a triumphant success at the Hampstead Theatre in London in 2008 and is currently playing at the Court Theatre, Christchurch, NZ, 17 June – 17 July 2010. Read KMS member Melissa C. Reimer’s wonderful review and detailed interview with the cast here.
Essay Prize 2011
11 July 2010
The Katherine Mansfield Society is pleased to announce its second annual prize essay competition, open to all, and which for 2011 will be on the subject of:
KATHERINE MANSFIELD AND THE ARTS
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