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Writing with the Gods: African Influences in African American and Caribbean Literature

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:39pm
Camille Alexander/Tuskegee University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Editors are seeking contributions to an edited collection titled, Writing with the Gods. This collection of original essays focuses on literary representations of African-influenced religions and spiritual traditions in African-American and Caribbean Literature, such as Voodoo, Hoodoo, Conjure, Obeah, Vodou, Santeria, Myal, and Candomble.  

Call for Papers (Vol.4, N.1): Critical Approaches to Speculative Fiction

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:39pm
estrema: interdisciplinary journal of humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 12, 2025

estrema: interdisciplinary journal of humanities, an online, double-blind peer-reviewed journal from the Centre for Comparative Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon (CEComp-FLUL), is currently accepting article and review submissions for the first issue of its Volume 4 until 12 May 2025. The previous issue featured reflections, in the form of articles and interviews, on the life/death dichotomy, approached from an interdisciplinary, comparative, and innovative perspective. In 2025, we are launching estrema's first call for papers specifically focused on a particular field of study: Speculative Fiction.

Call for Chapters: The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Translation

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:39pm
Chris Shei / Swansea University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Call for Chapters: The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Translation (Revised Edition, 2027)

Editors: Weixiao Wei, Zhaoming Gao and Chris Shei

We are pleased to announce the call for chapters for the revised edition of The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Translation, scheduled for publication in 2027. Building on the foundation of the 2017 edition, the revised volume aims to reflect the latest developments, research trends, and innovations in Chinese translation studies. We particularly welcome contributions that explore how advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) are reshaping the theory and practice of Chinese translation across various domains.

CFP: IUO JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND LITERARY STUDIES

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:37pm
Department of English, Igbinedion University, Nigeria
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Department of English, Igbinedion University Okada, Edo State, Nigeria, invites quality articles for inclusion in Volume 2 of the June/July and November/December editions of IUO Journal of English and Literary Studies. The journal publishes articles and compositions written in English and French in all areas of English Language and Literature, including African and non-African Studies, Canonical, Contemporary, and Comparative Studies, Linguistics Studies, Theatre Arts, Film/Home Video, conference proceedings, editorials, book reviews, interviews, creative works, and sketches. IUO Journal of English and Literary Studies is an online periodical which allows free and unrestricted access to its published material.

Critical Approaches to Controversies in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:36pm
Lisa Rowe Fraustino/Children's Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Recent reports about Neil Gaiman’s alleged decades of sexual abuse have led to renewed discussions about how to approach popular and award-winning works by authors and illustrators who draw rebuke in their personal lives.  Censorship over a range of complaints is increasing globally. Social media callouts over content have resulted in withdrawn publications, canceled book contracts, and altered reputations of authors, illustrators, and publishers. 

Routledge-CRC Press-Taylor and Francis - Call for Chapters: Digital Technology and Language Teaching: Exploring New Frontiers in Language Education

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:36pm
Dr. Aby John, Faculty of Philology, RUDN University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 12, 2025

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

Digital Technology and Language Teaching: Exploring New Frontiers in Language Education

Routledge-CRC Press-Taylor and Francis - Call for Chapters (Will be indexed in Scopus)

 

Important Deadlines

               Abstract Submission (Approximately 150-200 words)                 :               April 12, 2025

               Full Chapter Submission                                                                 :               June 15, 2025

Patterson Prize 2025 (Simone de Beauvoir Studies)

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:35pm
Simone de Beauvoir Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Patterson Prize 2025 (English submission)
Deadline: May 1, 2025
Prize: $500 USD and publication in Simone de Beauvoir Studies, vol. 36, no. 2

The award is named after Yolanda Astarita Patterson, one of the founding editors of Simone de Beauvoir Studies and Editor in Chief of the journal for more than thirty years (1985-2016). The Patterson Prize is awarded annually to a work that demonstrates excellence in writing while also embodying modes of thought and expression characteristic of Beauvoir’s oeuvre.

Teaching Social Justice in the World Literature Classroom: An edited collection on the theory and practice of teaching world literary texts with a focus on social justice

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:35pm
Department of English, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Editors: 

Dr. Manzur Alam and Dr. Tanja Stampfl 

Contact Emails: malam@uiwtx.edu; stampfl@uiwtx.edu

Important Dates:

  • Deadline for Abstract Submission: May 31st, 2025
  • Notification of Acceptance: June 15th, 2025
  • Submission deadline for the full articles and case studies: January 10th, 2026

Overview:

Vol. 33: Special Issue in The Grove: Working Papers on English Studies (2026)

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:33pm
The Grove: Working Papers on English Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 15, 2025

We invite contributions for a special issue titled Cutting Across Borders: Contemporary Gibraltarian Writing, which seeks to explore the evolving literary landscape of Gibraltar.

Queer Cripping, Art, and Resistance

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:32pm
Canadian Journal of Disability Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 25, 2025

We are seeking submissions for a special issue (titled: Queer Cripping, Art, and Resistance) for the peer-reviewed journal, Canadian Journal of Disability Studies.  
  
As disability scholar Tobin Siebers states, “Disability is properly speaking an aesthetic value, which is to say, it participates in a system of knowledge that provides materials for and increases critical consciousness about the way that some bodies make other bodies feel.” (1)   

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower: Visions of Yesterday and Tomorrow

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:32pm
Jasmine Wade | African and Black Diaspora Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

 

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower: Visions of Yesterday and Tomorrow

Special Issue of African and Black Diaspora: an International Journal

 

The editors invite research articles examining Octavia Butler’s seminal and prophetic novels Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents for a special issue of African and Black Diaspora: an International Journal. In addition, the editors are accepting short creative works inspired by Butler’s Parable series. 

 

CfP (Re)Reading Encyclopedic Narratives in the Digital Age - RSAJournal - Special Issue no. 37 (Sept 2026)

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:31pm
RSAJournal - Journal of the Italian Association for North-American Studies (AISNA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Call for Papers: (Re)Reading Encyclopedic Narratives in the Digital Age

RSAJournal - Special Issue no. 37 (September 2026)

Guest editors: Giorgio Mariani (Sapienza University of Rome), Ali Dehdarirad (Sapienza University of Rome), Sascha Pöhlmann (TU Dortmund University)

Refocus: The Films of Leos Carax

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:31pm
James Slaymaker (Trinity College Dublin), Edinburgh University Press
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Across a career spanning over 40 years, French-born filmmaker Leos Carax has firmly established himself as one of the most unique and innovative voices in modern European cinema. After a period writing criticism for Cahiers du Cinéma while he was still a teenager, Carax released his debut film Boy Meets Girl (1984) at age 23 to international acclaim. Carax followed up on this early promise with the futuristic neo-noir Mauvais Sang (1986), the romantic drama Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991), and the Herman Melville adaptation Pola X (1999).

Digital Studies in Language and Studies - Volume 2, Issue 1

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:30pm
Digital Studies in Language and Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Newly launched by De Gruyter, Digital Studies in Language and Literature (DSLL, ISSN: 2943-0607) is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary publication dedicated to advancing research on the intersection of digital technology, language, and literature.

 

DSLL welcomes all submissions in line with the aims and scope below. Accepted articles will be published via fully sponsored Open Access through a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY-4.0) Licenseso your research will be freely available for all to read and download.

 

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Gaskell Journal Essay Prize Competition 2026

updated: 
Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:29pm
Gaskell Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 1, 2026

The Gaskell Journal

Joan Leach Memorial

Graduate Student Essay Prize 2026

 

Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2026

 

The Gaskell Journal runs a biennial Graduate Student Essay Prize in honour of Joan Leach MBE, founder of the Gaskell Society. The winning essay will be published in the Gaskell Journal (with revisions as appropriate), and its author will receive £200 from the Gaskell Society, and a complimentary copy of the Journal.

 

Call for Submissions: Voices Unbound – An Anthology of International Poetry

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Friday, March 14, 2025 - 4:28pm
Fresh Words-An International Literary Magazine
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 28, 2025

We are thrilled to announce an open call for submissions for 'Voices Unbound', a new poetry anthology that seeks to celebrate the diverse, vibrant, and transformative power of poetry. Whether you are an emerging voice or an established poet, we invite you to share your work and contribute to this collective tapestry of human experience.

 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/home

Enhanced Human Bodies in Literature and Cinema

updated: 
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 - 10:25am
Aqib Javid /Psau,KSA
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025

We live in an age of optimization. Norms of beauty and performance are relentlessly getting harder to achieve without modifying the psychophysiology of human beings. Humans are faced with choices and demands regarding increasing and reducing the size, mass, and weight of different body parts and the modification of the way they function. The normal no longer means the common, it means the optimal. From special diets and extreme workouts to silicon injections and from plastic surgery to brain chips, the human body is transforming into a workshop for different arts and technologies. The cosmetic surgery market, for example, is worth more than 57 billion dollars and is expected to continue to grow very fast.

General Call for Papers

updated: 
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 - 9:57am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an open-access peer-reviewed academic e-journal, invites original and unpublished, interdisciplinary, research papers and book reviews from various interrelated disciplines including, but not limited to, literature, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, law, ecology, environmental science, and economics.

ReFocus: The International Directors Series: David Cronenberg (Re-CFP)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 - 2:41am
Edinburgh University Press
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 20, 2025

ReFocus: The International Directors Series: David Cronenberg

Edinburgh University Press

Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg is widely regarded as one of the finest proprietors of the body-horror genre. Cronenberg’s filmography traverses the realm of the corporeal beyond its bare form, testing the limits of what a body can do. His films explore the intricate relations between the market, science, and desire. Cronenberg also examines disease and illness, situating their grotesque ramifications in the soma and the psyche, while many other later film narratives diverge from Cronenberg’s earlier focus on body horror to exhibit a wide spectrum of directorial capabilities.

Early Scholars Publication Grants: Translating Cultures

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Tuesday, March 11, 2025 - 1:55am
UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 26, 2025

The King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS), through its UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures, and with support from the Literature, Publishing and Translation Commission, offers Early Scholars Publication Grants. These grants support the publication of outstanding PhD dissertations that critically examine contemporary debates related to the UNESCO Chair's two themes and adopt a global perspective that moves beyond Eurocentrism. Early Scholars Publication Grants will be awarded for this year's two themes:

1) Translating Cultures in the Digital Age

CFP: Translating Cultures and Artificial Intelligence

updated: 
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 - 1:55am
UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 5, 2025

With the support of the Literature, Publishing, and Translation Commission, the UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS) announces a call for contributions to an edited volume on Translating Cultures and Artificial Intelligence. Organized by the Chair’s Translating Cultures Lab (TCL), this edited volume will reconceptualize, redefine, and expand the current conversations on translating cultures in the context of contemporary technological developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Memory, Narrative Designs, and Strategies of Preservation

updated: 
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 - 1:55am
Indian Network for Memory Studies (INMS) and Centre for Memory Studies (CMS), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 16, 2025

                                     Indian Network for Memory Studies (INMS) International Conference 2024

                                               

                                             In association with Centre for Memory Studies (CMS) IIT Madras

 

                                              Memory, Narrative Designs, and Strategies of Preservation

     

                                                                  27-29 October 2025 IIT Madras

Call for Submissions: Qutub Minar Review July 2025 Issue

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Tuesday, March 11, 2025 - 1:54am
Qutub Minar Review
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 20, 2025

                                                                         CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Website: https://qutubminarreview.wordpress.com/about/

Submission Email: editorqutubminarreview@gmail.com

Submission Deadline: June 20th, 2025

Qutub Minar Review is inviting poetry, short stories (maximum 500 words for each story), one minute plays, interviews, book reviews, memoires and travelogues for July 2025 issue. Submission guidelines are as follows:

General guidelines:

[LAST CALL] CFP: Victorians Institute Journal, Vol 52

updated: 
Monday, March 10, 2025 - 3:30am
Victorians Institute Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Act fast! Less than one month remains before the editorial deadline for Volume 52 of The Victorians Institute Journal.

We are still accepting manuscripts between 7k-9k words on any aspect of Victorian and Edwardian literature, art, and culture for publication in Volume 52 of the journal, which will be published later this year.

For complete submission instructions and to upload your manuscript for consideration, please visit http://www.editorialmanager.com/vij and follow the steps given by the online system. Any submissions uploaded after the April 1 deadline will be considered for Volume 53.

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