journals and collections of essays

[LAST CALL] CFP: Victorians Institute Journal, Vol 53

updated: 
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 4:40pm
Victorians Institute Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Act quickly! Less than one month remains before the editorial deadline for Volume 53 of The Victorians Institute Journal.

Through April 1st, we are still accepting manuscripts between 7k-9k words on any aspect of Victorian and Edwardian literature, art, and culture for publication in Volume 53 of the journal, which will be published later this year.

Afrofuturism in African Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, March 17, 2026 - 12:41pm
Dr. Paul M. Mukundi
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 30, 2026

Afrofuturism in African Literature
Edited Volume — Call for Contributions

Motherhoods around the World – Second Call for Papers for a Special Issue

updated: 
Monday, March 16, 2026 - 3:50am
Zsuzsanna Lénárt-Muszka and Zsófia Orosz-Réti, University of Debrecen
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

Special issue of the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies


We are issuing a brief second call for papers for the special issue Motherhoods around the World in the peer-reviewed, Scopus indexed journal, the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies.

Due to the withdrawal of one or two previously accepted contributions, additional article slots have become available.

 

Call for papers: The Journal of Marlowe Studies

updated: 
Friday, March 13, 2026 - 1:39pm
Andrew Duxfield
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

The Journal of Marlowe Studies, the only peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the study of Christopher Marlowe, invites submissions for its 2027 issue. We welcome scholarly exploration of Marlowe’s works, reviews of relevant books, and reviews of productions of Marlowe’s plays from anywhere in the world. Submissions are welcome from scholars at all career stages.

The journal is co-edited by Lisa Hopkins and Andrew Duxfield. If you have any questions, please feel free to email Andrew on a.duxfield@liverpool.ac.uk.

Journal Website: https://journals.shu.ac.uk/index.php/Marlstud/index

Distinctly Canadian Voices – Second Call for Papers for a Special Issue

updated: 
Friday, March 13, 2026 - 1:38pm
Zsuzsanna Lénárt-Muszka, University of Debrecen
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Special issue of the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies


We are issuing a brief second call for papers for the special issue Distinctly Canadian Voices in the peer-reviewed, Scopus indexed journal, the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies.

Due to the withdrawal of one or two previously accepted contributions, additional article slots have become available.

We invite new submissions that explore the representations of Canada and Canadians in fields as diverse as literature, film, television, visual art, and other media, both in Anglophone and Francophone contexts.

Call for Abstracts - A Cultural History of the Avant-garde in East Asia - A Companion Series

updated: 
Friday, March 13, 2026 - 12:58pm
De Gruyter Brill
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

A Cultural History of the Avant-garde in East Asia

Part of: Cultural Histories of the Avant-Garde: A Companion Series (www.brill.com/CHAG)

 

The companion series is part of an ongoing, large-scale project launched by De Gruyter Brill (a merger of two international publishing houses) that uncovers the cultural history of the avant-garde in major regions of the world. The series on East Asia consists of four volumes, each dealing with specific decades and topics as follows: 

BABEL-AFIAL Special Issue: Babel/s in the 21st Century

updated: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 4:45pm
Dept. of English, University of Vigo, Spain.
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

 

BABEL AFIAL journal. Dept of English, French and German, University of Vigo, Spain. Call for Papers for No. 35, Special Issue: “BABEL/S IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: LINGUISTIC AND LITERARY NEGOTIATIONS, CULTURAL (MIS)ENCOUNTERS AND TEXTUAL VARIATIONS IN THE ANGLOPHONE WORLD”. Deadline:  31 March 2026. Contact info: babelafial@uvigo.gal. Journal info (both English & Spanish versions) at: https://revistas.uvigo.es/index.php/AFIAL/announcement/view/38

 

CFP Reminder: Humanities Bulletin, 9.1, May 2026, UK, London

updated: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 4:43pm
London Academic Publishing
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 25, 2026

Humanities Bulletin - Call for papers
Submission Deadline: April 25, 2026
Vol. 9, No. 1 - May, 2026

ISSN 2517-4266

Humanities Bulletin is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed Journal which features original studies and reviews in the various branches of Humanities, including History, Literature, Philosophy, Arts.
This journal is not allied with any specific school of thinking or cultural tradition; instead, it encourages dialogue between ideas and people with different points of view. Our aim is to bring together different international scholars, in order to promote the dialogue between cultures, ideas and new academic researches.
The Journal is hosted by London Academic Publishing, London, UK.

A Weaponised Earth: The Elements of Death and Disappearance

updated: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 4:37pm
The Philosopher
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 1, 2026

Speaking of the agency of nature is now common practice. The biosphere is recognised as being life sustaining and its vitality essential to human existence. Following thinkers such as Felix Guattari, nature has also been recognised has having subjective qualities, inseparable from the meaning and values humans attribute to life and the visions we conjure of what constitutes a just and habitable future. The philosophical legacy of Immanuel Kant looms large over this aesthetic terrain, notably his work on the beautiful and the sublime, which still compels us to consider the complex relationship between humans and life-world systems.  

 

Call for Papers: ‘Heated Rivalry: Queering Sports in Popular Culture’

updated: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 4:35pm
Journal of Fandom Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 21, 2026

Call for Papers: Journal of Fandom Studies

Special Issue: ‘Heated Rivalry: Queering Sports in Popular Culture’ 

Guest Editors:

Yvonne Gonzales, University of Southern California

Kirsten Crowe, University of Southern California

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-fandom-studies#call-for-papers

The Cinema of the Thunder Dragon: A Critical Mapping of Bhutanese Visual Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 2:12pm
Raiganj University and University of North Bengal
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

We invite original scholarly contributions for an edited comprehensive volume dedicated to
the histories, aesthetics, industries, and cultural politics of cinema in Bhutan. As Bhutanese
filmmaking gains increasing regional and global visibility—through both popular and festival
circuits—this volume seeks to offer the first sustained, interdisciplinary mapping of its
cinematic landscape.

Heated Rivalry: Queering Sports in Popular Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 2:09pm
Journal of Fandom Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 13, 2026

Since the release of the Canadian-produced streaming TV show Heated Rivalry, the show and its actors have exploded across traditional and social media, prompting wide discussions about sexuality in sports and the female consumption of MM (male/male) romance. Based on the Game Changers novel series by Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry follows the illicit romance between two male hockey players. In the months since, both NHL ticket and queer romance novel sales have skyrocketed; parodies of Heated Rivalry have popped up on SNL and off-Broadway stages.

“Hegel’s Philosophy of Action”

updated: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 2:08pm
"Open Philosophy" De Gruyter Brill
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

for a topical issue of Open Philosophy

HEGEL’S PHILOSOPHY OF ACTION

 

Open Philosophy (https://www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/opphil/html) invites submissions for the topical issue “Hegel’s Philosophy of Action”, edited by Bojana Jovićević (University of Ljubljana) and Gregor Schäfer (University of Basel/University of London).

 

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Neo-Victorian Crime: A Companion

updated: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 2:08pm
Helen Davies and Maria Isabel Romero-Ruiz
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Neo-Victorian Crime: A Companion – extended cfp

We are seeking 3 additional chapters for an edited collection, Neo-Victorian Crime: A Companion, which is currently under contract with Peter Lang publishers.

Historical Horror: Women, History, and Horror in the Twenty-First Century

updated: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 1:19pm
Stephanie Russo, Macquarie University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Critical essays are invited for an edited collection on the Historical Horror novel in the twenty-first century. This volume will focus on the intersection of women, history and the horror novel. It will explore representations of gender, sexuality and power in historical horror novels.

Horror and history have been intertwined since the publication of the first Gothic novel, Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, in 1764. The past is a useful landscape for the horror novel, as it allows both a distancing—horror is imagined to happen on other shores or in other times—as well as a closer exploration of the horrors to be found at home.

University of Toronto Quarterly - General Submissions CFP

updated: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 1:14pm
University of Toronto Quarterly
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

University of Toronto Quarterly (UTQ) is currently seeking submissions. Established in 1931, UTQ publishes innovative and exemplary scholarship from all areas in the humanities. As an interdisciplinary journal, UTQ favours articles that appeal to a scholarly readership beyond the specialists of a given discipline or field.

FEMSPEC - Call for Production Editor and Book Review Editor

updated: 
Wednesday, March 4, 2026 - 7:49pm
Femspec
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 31, 2026

FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to challenging gender through speculative means in any genre, seeks volunteers to fill the following roles:

 

PRODUCTION EDITOR

 

Duties include:

 

Collating and formatting content for each new issue of the journal.  Liaising with the journal's editor and other volunteer collective members to make changes to the issue's content and layout until the end of each issue's production period.

 

FEMSPEC - Call for Website Editor

updated: 
Wednesday, March 4, 2026 - 7:48pm
Femspec
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 31, 2026

FEMSPEC, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to challenging gender through speculative means in any genre, seeks volunteers to fill the following roles:

 

Website Editor

 

Duties include:

 

Updating FEMSPEC's website at the collective's request - this could include updating biographies of collective members, altering the website's layout, adding or removing content from various pages in the website, and updating the website with information about the current issue of the journal

 

Special Issue on Sport Romance

updated: 
Wednesday, March 4, 2026 - 3:23am
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

The Journal of Popular Romance Studies is calling for papers for its special issue on Sport Romance.

Intimate Empires

updated: 
Monday, March 2, 2026 - 1:20pm
New Voices in Postcolonial Studies Magazine
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Theme: Intimate Empires

Call for Contributions - New Voices in Postcolonial Studies Magazine

 

One Hundred Years of Gabriel García Márquez

updated: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026 - 10:52am
MELOW: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 5, 2026

One Hundred Years of Gabriel García Márquez

Proposed Dates: 1-2 May 2026

Proposed Venue: SRM University, Sikkim

Organized by: MELOW (The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World)

Gabriel García Márquez, born in Columbia 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.

Yeshe:A Journal of Tibetan Literature, Arts and Humanities

updated: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026 - 7:00am
Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani, Priyanka Chakraborty
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Call for Submissions

Yeshe: A Journal of Tibetan Literature, Arts and Humanities is an international open-access and peer-reviewed annual e-journal, which provides an outstanding platform for Tibetan writers, translators and all research scholars in the area of Tibet Studies to publish their works. 

Yeshe is currently open to submissions of academic articles, reviews, and interviews related to Tibet, as well as poetry, performance, prose, art, and fiction written in English or translated into English) for its sixth annual issue to be published in October 2026. Please check our submission page for the guidelines.

CRITICALPRODUCTIVE JOURNAL NO. 05 Call for Projects: Mediascapes + Urban Identity

updated: 
Sunday, March 1, 2026 - 6:52am
CriticalProductive Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

“The urban” has taken many forms in the history of film, video and moving image works—with both documentary depictions and speculative representations of poverty, marginal life and geographies, displacement and gentrification, social alienation, racial and ethnic identities, gender and sexual identities, politics and social activism. As both a trope and a subject, the urban—a conceptualization of lifeways existing within the construct of “the city”that are beyond economic capture—has emerged as a distinguishing conceptual frame for understanding the ways that cities have succumbed to their own commoditization and commercialization.

Indigenous Futurisms Beyond the West: Arab and Global South Speculative Fiction

updated: 
Thursday, February 26, 2026 - 8:23pm
Finnish Literary Research Society Annual Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 28, 2026

Finnish Literary Research Society Annual Conference 2026

 May 20-22, 2026

 

Online Panel: Indigenous Futurisms Beyond the West: Arab and Global South Speculative Fiction

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