2026/27 Academic Year
Upcoming Sessions
Welcome to the Romance Reading Group website!
The Romance Reading Group is an interdisciplinary, postgraduate-led, University of Birmingham
reading group which focuses on the genre everybody loves to hate: popular romance.
Our free, helpful and fun reading group sessions take place once a month, online and usually on a Monday!
We're back! Apologies for the long hiatus...life happened. But we have a lot of great sessions planned this year.
We're changing things up a bit, so this overview has all the sessions, dates and links (Google Meet) for the academic year so feel free to add them to your calendar. Reminders will also be sent...probably. As always, we're meeting online and all our sessions are at 16:00-17:00 UK time.
26 October - The Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore (because October, obviously. Autumnal wear, palette and drinks highly encouraged)
Link to Join: meet.google.com/vvi-bmrj-ijy
23 November - An Academic Affair by Jodi McAlister (yes, we know there's a new one out in the Love Notes series but we need to start from the beginning to keep the universe from imploding).
Link to join: meet.google.com/huv-jxdo-jvh
7 December - Guarding Stars (film) by Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum (for me, it's because it stars Dean Sam Jared Padalecki; for others, it's Leighton Meester; for the RRG, it's our xmas tradition. Releases 18 Nov on Netflix).
Link to join: meet.google.com/qcj-dfbm-mkd
22 February - The Love Hypothesis book by Ali Hazelwood AND the film by Claire Scanlon (this will be a safe space to rant as long as it is for the film only. Kidding, you know you can rant about anything. Bonus points for every mention of Adam Driver).
Link to join: meet.google.com/qqf-zfkc-cai
22 March - Out on a Limb by Hannah Bonam-Young (love a good pun!).
Link to join: meet.google.com/rbi-qhbz-dcy
26 April - The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden (Is this a romance? Discuss).
Link to join: meet.google.com/sow-onwp-ixt
24 May - TBC (recommendations welcome)
Link to join: meet.google.com/yjw-onkj-mcx
All are welcome, regardless of reading/watching status for the session's text.
Loads of love,
The Romance Reading Group
(aka Carly, Charlotte & Evvie)




