Christ’s College’s new and improved Darkness Visible Milton study site (relaunching December 2026) seeks blog posts of c.1500-2000 words relating to the works, life, times, contemporaries and afterlives of John Milton.

The site is primarily a resource for studying Paradise Lost aimed at schools, university applicants, undergraduates, and anyone else interested in getting to know the poem better. The new blog aims to supplement the site’s more introductory material by providing deeper dives into Milton-related topics. It will provide a space for aspiring and established Miltonists to share their latest ideas with a broad audience. The posts will serve as extension material for the majority of the site’s users.

Submissions are sought from Miltonists of all kinds: undergraduate, postgraduate, academic, or other. This is an opportunity to have a piece published on an accessible platform which will be promoted widely over the next year. Blog posts can present a developing thought, work-in-progress, an introduction to work published elsewhere, or even a more personal or anecdotal take on Milton; anything that touches on or helps to contextualise Milton’s works is likely to be welcome. You will be published alongside the likes of Orlando Reade, author of What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost (a Financial Times Book of the Year), and Katrin Ettenhuber, editor of a major new edition of Samson Agonistes.

Submissions welcomed on a rolling basis. Please submit an expression of interest, a sentence or two of proposal, or a complete draft to the editor at kamm5@cam.ac.uk.

(Introductory content for the main site is also welcomed, in the form of c.500-1000-word close readings of a c.10-line Miltonic extract for our ‘How to Read Milton’ page.)