journals and collections of essays

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS — Mini Plays Review | September 2026 Issue

updated: 
Monday, June 8, 2026 - 4:12pm
Mini Plays Review
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 31, 2026

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS — Mini Plays Review | September 2026 Issue 

Theme: Echoes of the Digital Age

This issue explores how human connection, conflict, identity, and memory are being rewritten in a hyper-connected yet deeply isolated world. We are looking for sharp, short scripts that capture the friction between our physical lives and our digital existence.

Subthemes for Submission:

  • 1. Phantom Vibrations: The psychological weight, anxiety, or obsession of waiting for a notification that never comes.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | The Soliloquist Journal

updated: 
Monday, June 8, 2026 - 3:49pm
The Soliloquist Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 10, 2026

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | The Soliloquist Journal ( https://thesoliloquistmagazine.my.canva.site/#submit )
Theme: The Architecture of Solitude

Deadline: July 10, 2026

Publication: July 15, 2026

Solitude is rarely a vast, empty space—it is built. It has walls we erect to protect our innermost selves, windows through which we watch a noisy world, drafty corners of loneliness, and sacred sanctuaries of deliberate peace.

Journal of Taylor Swift Studies (JOTSS) Special Edition 2026

updated: 
Monday, June 8, 2026 - 1:12pm
The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies (JOTSS)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 30, 2026

The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies (JOTSS)
Binghamton University’s Special Edition

Colloquially Speaking! Ruminations on the Possibilities of the Field: Call for Papers

Submission Deadline: August 30, 2026

Submission Website: https://orb.binghamton.edu/jotss/

Proposals for edited volume on 21st cent. Women Poets and Resistance

updated: 
Monday, June 8, 2026 - 12:18pm
Esther Sánchez-PArdo / U.Complutense
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Proposals for edited book on 21st cent. Women Poets and Resistance

We –a group of scholars and poets– are assembling a collective book on 21st century Women's Poetries, which will be submitted as an edited collection for one of the series at Palgrave Macmillan. Two of our contributors fell down and we are trying to find a couple of good proposals which can be a good fit and complete our collection.

Indraprasth: An International Journal of Culture & Communication Studies

updated: 
Sunday, June 7, 2026 - 6:37am
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

    Indraprasth: An International Journal of Culture & Communication Studies, (ISSN 2278-7208), the annual journal published by the University School of Humanities and Social Sciences (USHSS) at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University invites unpublished research papers for its upcoming issue, Volume XV (2026), titled “New Paradigms, New Epistemes: Literature and Criticality in the 21st Century.”  

CfP: Themed Dossiers for Mediapolis – A Journal of Cities and Culture

updated: 
Sunday, June 7, 2026 - 4:30am
Linda Kopitz | Mediapolis – A Journal of Cities and Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 31, 2026

Mediapolis – A Journal of Cities and Culture is an interdisciplinary open access online journal, drawing a connection between culture and the built environment – understood in the broadest sense. We publish research in different forms, from research articles to Q&A interviews and readings list, and across different academic fields, including but not limited to media studies, urban studies, geography, architecture and art history as well as digital humanities. 

Critique: Journal of English Language and Literature

updated: 
Saturday, June 6, 2026 - 2:44am
Department of English Literature, Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 31, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS

Critique: Journal of English Language and Literature

https://critique.gcuf.edu.pk

Submission Deadline: 31 July 2026

 

 

The Editors of Critique: Journal of English Language and Literature invite the submission of original scholarly articles for consideration in the forthcoming issue of the journal.

Call for abstracts - Forward Thinking: New Voices for the Future

updated: 
Thursday, June 4, 2026 - 9:28am
Utrecht University / University of Glasgow
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Call for abstracts - Forward Thinking: New Voices for the Future

In an era marked by ecological breakdown, epistemic instability, and widening global precarity, the very notion of “the future” has become a site of intense conceptual struggle. We invite scholars carrying out visionary work across the humanities — philosophy, literary theory, political thought, cultural studies, and related fields — to articulate bold and innovative interventions on what it means to think futurity today. 

Agricultural and Rural Development in the Twentieth Century

updated: 
Wednesday, June 3, 2026 - 7:43pm
Leo Chu
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 15, 2026

Agricultural and Rural Development in the Twentieth Century
Yearbook for the History of Global Development

Volume co-editors Leo Chu (University of New South Wales) and James Lin (University of Washington, Seattle)

Extended Call for Papers for dialog-Special Issue No. 47

updated: 
Wednesday, June 3, 2026 - 8:38am
Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 12, 2026

[EXTENDED DEADLINE] CALL FOR PAPERS FOR DIALOG JOURNAL

Special Issue No. 47

Theme: Creative Afterlives of Texts

Note from the Editor: Owing to technical difficulties, the journal website has not yet been updated to display the revised and extended submission deadline (12th June, 2026). Please consider the extended deadline communicated through this announcement as official and valid.

 

Special Issue of Studia Neophilologica on Thomas Lovell Beddoes

updated: 
Tuesday, June 2, 2026 - 8:04am
Andrew Hodgson (University of Birmingham)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 2, 2026

2028 will mark the two hundredth anniversary of Thomas Lovell Beddoes’s completion of the first version of his masterpiece Death’s Jest-Book. This special issue of Studia Neophilologica, coinciding also with the centenary of a journal that has been the home of many significant essays on Beddoes’s writings, will offer new readings and accounts of Beddoes’s life, work, and reputation.

Contributions are invited for essays between 5 and 8,000 words on all aspects of Beddoes’s career. Topics might include:

 

Call for Papers: ‘Routes & Roots: Transnational Genealogies of Art Education’

updated: 
Monday, June 1, 2026 - 12:01pm
International Journal of Education Through Art
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 28, 2027

Call for Papers: International Journal of Education Through Art

Special Issue: ‘Routes & Roots: Transnational Genealogies of Art Education’

Guest Editors:

Dustin Garnet University of British Columbia

dustin.garnet@ubc.ca

Indira Bailey Claflin University

ibailey@claflin.edu

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-education-through-art#call-for-papers

Deadline extended: 2nd International Conference of the Just Transition Knowledge Network (JETNET) - Transitions in Extractive Regions: Sustainable Closures, Repurposing and Developmental Pathways

updated: 
Monday, June 1, 2026 - 1:47am
Just Transition Research Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2026

Background

The Just Transition Knowledge Network (JETNET), an initiative of the Just Transition Research Centre at IIT Kanpur, invites national and international participants to its Annual Conference 2026.

Animal Adaptations--Call for Additional Chapters

updated: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026 - 2:20pm
Justyna Włodarczyk and Michael Fuchs
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

Animal Adaptations

 

We invite proposals for a small number of additional chapters for an edited volume on animal adaptations, edited by Justyna Włodarczyk (University of Warsaw) and Michael Fuchs (University of Innsbruck).

 

Electoral Politics in India in the Post-Liberalization Era

updated: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026 - 8:44am
Department of Political Science, Seth Soorajmull Jalan Girls’ College (Affiliated to the University of Calcutta), Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Submissions are invited for an upcoming edited volume exploring the development of electoral politics in India in the post-liberalization era. This comprehensive publication will be brought out by the Department of Political Science, Seth Soorajmull Jalan Girls’ College (Affiliated to the University of Calcutta), Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Concept Note:

vol. 1, issue 1 cfp - "in search of our gardens: femme-of-center pleasure activism in the Third World"

updated: 
Saturday, May 30, 2026 - 7:40pm
visions of marronnage: journal of liberation studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 10, 2026

grounding

recent conversations illustrating the gap between the notion of “living life” and the realities of our day-to-day functioning (often framed as “being in survival mode” or “the difference between surviving and thriving”) have served to underscore the importance of our rituals of pleasure and joymaking. the essentiality of these rituals, as reclamations of agency, methods of healing, and ways of maintaining community, is especially relevant for those throughout the African Diaspora and the broader Third World* global community who identify as femme-of-center. 

 

CFP: From Blueprints to Praxis: Practical Disruption in Academia and Beyond

updated: 
Saturday, May 30, 2026 - 4:38pm
Journal of Auto-Academia
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 1, 2026

Often, when thinking of academia, the ideas of books, writing, and theory are what make up the idea of the scholar. Many scholars who speak about activism, liberation, mutual aid, living in a collective community, and many other topics of concern for the JOAA team, do not always live the practice they write. This year, we are hoping to disrupt this focus on the blueprints of freedom and look into the way folks are working in the world to build, support, create, and live praxis in their lives.   

Appalachian Glass: Furnace of Meaning and Memory--Call for Creative Nonfiction

updated: 
Saturday, May 30, 2026 - 4:36pm
Todd A. Comer
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Appalachian Glass: Furnace of Meaning and Memory

This edited collection addresses a major gap in current work focused on Appalachia’s glass industry. We have catalogs and reference books. We have histories focused on class, labor, and gender. We have histories focused on the rise and demise of glass factories. But the human work of meaning, identity, and memory--in the context of Appalachian glass--has yet to be gathered and shared in book form. 

Developmental Perspectives in the Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS)

updated: 
Saturday, May 30, 2026 - 12:59am
TENET: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College, University of Delhi
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 5, 2026

India is poised to press home its civilisational charisma and unique advantages in the quest to realise its goals under the mission Viksit Bharat 2047. Fuelled by conceptual, imaginative and practical inputs derived from the continuously preserved Indian Knowledge Systems (Bharatiya Jñāna Paramparā), India’s developmental mission is not for its own exclusive benefit; rather, it is to guide the world in its anxious search for an alternative holistic paradigm of growth that preserves the universal core of human life and values, restores our vital spiritual connections with natural environments and rejuvenates an organic sense of community even as global enterprise prospers and enables a sense of economic well-being and security in people.

 

Edited Volume — Call for Contributions: Theorizing Gender, Sex and Sexuality through Speculative Literatures

updated: 
Tuesday, May 26, 2026 - 3:00pm
Drs. Joshua Horton and Sandra Cox
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Theorizing Gender, Sex and Sexuality through Speculative Literatures

Edited Volume — Call for Contributions

Editors: Drs. Joshua Horton (Arizona State University) and Sandra Cox (Southeast Missouri State University)

contact emails: jthorto2@asu.edu and scox@semo.edu

Deadlines:

Abstracts (200-300 words) due September 30, 2026 (responses to submitters can be expected about a week after the deadline)

Call for Papers: ‘Hip-Hop Diaspora: Memory, Technology and the Politics of Electric Infrastructure’

updated: 
Tuesday, May 26, 2026 - 10:17am
Global Hip Hop Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 15, 2026

Call for Papers: Global Hip Hop Studies

Special Issue: ‘Hip-Hop Diaspora: Memory, Technology and the Politics of Electric Infrastructure’

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/global-hip-hop-studies#call-for-papers

Guest editors

Pablo D. Herrera Veitia, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Francesca D’Amico Cuthbert, University of Toronto, Canada

Myrtle D. Millares, University of Toronto, Canada

Dennis Howard, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

CFP: Psychoanalysis in An Indian Key

updated: 
Tuesday, May 26, 2026 - 6:23am
IPA COWAP-Routledge Book Series
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Indian psychoanalysis consistently finds itself in a space of translation—concepts and praxis generated through Euro-American epistemes are translated on the page and in the clinician’s office. Concepts forged in specific Euro-American contexts encounter Indian affective, political and cultural worlds that resist and reshape them. In India, these juxtapositions between lived worlds and psychoanalytic theory have often been navigated through recourse to Hindu mythology, or rarely, through strict adherence to European epistemes.

CALL FOR ESSAYS ON GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ

updated: 
Tuesday, May 26, 2026 - 2:10am
MELOW: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Papers are invited for an anthology to be brought out by a reputed international publisher on the theme, “100 Years of Gabriel García Márquez.” 

Concept Note

Gabriel García Márquez, born in Colombia in the year 1927, is acknowledged as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. As we head towards his birth centenary, it is time to look back at this literary giant, reassess his contribution and its impact on literary history.

Performing Data in Australasia

updated: 
Monday, May 25, 2026 - 3:55am
Performance Paradigm
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 26, 2026

Performing Data in Australasia

Performance Paradigm Volume 21

 

Guest Editors 

Mara Davis Johnson (U of Wollongong), Benjamin Laird (Flinders U/Australian Creative Histories and Futures), Sarah Thomasson (Te Herenga Waka – Victoria U of Wellington/U of Queensland), James Wenley (Te Herenga Waka – Victoria U of Wellington). 

 

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