John McGivering Writing Competition 2026
First Prize Hannah Walton • The Hollow Fetch (kj405 p8) Joint Second Prize Christopher Milner • The Man Who Once Was King (kj405 p15) Deirdre Parkes • Curled in Sleep (kj405 p21)…
Latest Newsletter
Our August 2026 Newsletter provides details of future events including the Society’s next meeting on Wednesday 23 September when Christian Muller of the University of Pretoria will speak on ‘Changing perceptions of the Boers…
‘Kipling in/and Italy: Representations, Readings, Rewrites’
A recording of Dr Paolo D’Indinosante’s talk to the Society on 1 July 2026.
‘The Returned Soldier in Kipling’s Poetry’
A talk given by Dr Tai-Chun Ho (Associate Professor, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan) to the Kipling Society on 22 April 2026
‘Mavericks: Lionel Dunsterville and the Caspian campaign of 1918’
A talk given by Nick Higham to the Kipling Society on 4 February 2026
The SUPERNATURAL – 2026 Writing Prize
THE KIPLING SOCIETY The John McGivering Writing Prize 2026 Judges: Jan Montefiore, Mary Hamer, Sarah LeFanu Entries on the subject of the Supernatural are now invited. First Prize £350 Second prize £100 Third Prize £50…
‘How Mowgli became a monkey.’
A talk given by Professor Danny Karlin to the Kipling Society on 26 November 2025 (The Stamer-Smith lecture).
John McGivering Writing Competition 2025
THE SEA Report and Winning Entries BY JANET MONTEFIORE For this year’s John McGivering Writing Prize, competitors were invited to submit poems on the sea, to be connected directly or indirectly with Rudyard Kipling. 41…
“There’s more than engines to a ship”: Steamships & Accelerated Unities in ‘The Day’s Work’
A talk given by Dr Muireann O’Cinneide of the University of Galway to the Kipling Society on 24 September 2025
‘Conservative Belief and the Imagination in Kipling’s Fiction’
A talk given by Mark Paffard to the Kipling Society on 2 July 2025
Past Newsletters
Newsletters are sent by e-mail to members four weeks before each Society meeting, with details of that meeting and other events, reports on past events, and articles on subjects large and small. Past newsletters are available below, each with an item of particular interest highlighted.
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- June 2026 Sergie and the White Seal
- March 2026 Detmold originals
- January 2026 Clocking Kipling’s car
- October 2025 Letter from America – no. 2
- August 2025 Treasures of Bateman’s – no. 1
- June 2025 Was Kipling Mowgli?
- March 2025 Bateman’s Exhibition Room reopens
- January 2025 Newly-discovered Kipling letters
- October 2024 Kipling and Angela Thirkell – part 1
- August 2024 Library exhibition at Haileybury
- June 2024 Why we read Kipling – Part 10
- March 2024 Additions to the David Alan Richards Collection – part 3
- January 2024 ‘The Dog Hervey’ email exchange
- October 2023 Things as They Are – part 2
- August 2023 Reminiscences of Bateman’s
- June 2023 A new discovery at Bateman’s
- March 2023 Kim: An introduction to India – part 1
- January 2023 A letter from Lord Roberts
- October 2022 The Dalleys of Goldings Hill Farm – part 2
- August 2022 Why we read Kipling – part 1
- June 2022 Policy on Derogatory Terminology
- March 2022 Kipling’s uncle, Harry Macdonald
- January 2022 Kipling and Bairnsfather – final part
- October 2021 Kipling’s Uncle Joseph
- August 2021 A tribute to Peter Bellamy
- May 2021 ‘Something in Common’ – final part
- March 2021 ‘If’ reimagined – read by Serena Williams
- February 2021 ‘Rudyard Kipling and Bruce Bairnsfather’ part 1
- January 2021 ‘Something in Common’ – Rottingdean and Glendale
- December 2020 Filming with Michael Portillo at Bateman’s
- October 2020 ‘Rudyard Kipling, A Secret Life’
- August 2020 Burwash Forge Part 2
- July 2020 Remembering John McGivering
- June 2020 Burwash Forge Part 1
- April 2020 A Short History of Bateman’s (2)
- March 2020 A Short History of Bateman’s (1)
- January 2020 Kipling and Beerbohm Tree
- October 2019 Kipling in Epping Forest
- August 2019 Kipling and Rider Haggard
- June 2019 Lady Butler, War artist and Traveller
- March 2019 Kipling’s Motoring Diaries
- January 2019 The new Mowgli film
- October 2018 Kipling’s statue in Burwash