travel writing

Crossroads of Literary Creation: Fact, Fiction, and Everything In-between

updated: 
Friday, January 9, 2026 - 7:06pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 18, 2026

Crossroads of Literary Creation:
Fact, Fiction, and Everything In-between

A Transdisciplinary Conference
Online, February 11-12, 2026

Conference page: https://labrc.co.uk/2025/12/06/crossroads-of-literary-creation/

Participation fee: £100
Prices exclude eventbrite fees

Call for Papers:

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie” – Stephen King

“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.” – Doris Lessing

SSATW (Travel Writing) at ALA 2026

updated: 
Friday, January 9, 2026 - 7:05pm
Society for the Study of American Travel Writing at American Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

ALA 2026: Society for the Study of American Travel Writing CFP

 

CALL FOR PAPERS – Deadline, January 21, 2026

Society for the Study of American Travel Writing

American Literature Association 37th Annual Conference

May 20-23, 2026, in Chicago, IL.

 

CFP for Journal of Travel Literature Studies

updated: 
Thursday, December 18, 2025 - 10:54pm
Journal of Travel Literature Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Journal of Travel Literature Studies (JTLS) (ISSN: 3106-6674，EISSN：3106-6682) is a rigorously peer-reviewed international academic journal, formally published by Hong Kong HIEP Press.. The journal is edited by Professor Tian Junwu of Beihang University. The journal welcomes submissions in both Chinese and English. It is dedicated to advancing foundational theoretical and methodological research in the field of travel literature. Unconstrained by temporal or geographical boundaries, JTLS seeks to showcase the diverse textual paradigms and narrative characteristics of travel literature, while encouraging interdisciplinary perspectives and pluralistic critical approaches.

Tryst with Travel: Historical and Literary Perspectives (Extended Deadline)

updated: 
Friday, November 14, 2025 - 12:41pm
Gargi College
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

CONCEPT NOTE

Call For Papers

Travel is perhaps the most enduring and evocative leitmotif of life, both in a very real and

metaphoric sense. Essentially spinning from that chequered gamut, Travel Literature records

human interactions and experiences within the diverse landscapes and cultures of the world. Its

significance lies in its ability to document encounters with differences, recording their observations

of previously unknown lands and articulating evolving perceptions of space, place, and identity.

One of the earliest examples of this is found in the works of Herodotus. His Histories blend

accounts of his journeys with observations on cultures, customs, and geographies of the ancient

Seeing the Other Empire: British Travel Writing and Imperial Rivalry in Europe and the Near East, 1783–1914

updated: 
Monday, November 3, 2025 - 3:29pm
University of Strasbourg
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 24, 2026

Call for papers – International PhD and early-career symposium 

Seeing the Other Empire: British Travel Writing and Imperial Rivalry in Europe and the Near East, 1783–1914

University of Strasbourg, 24 April 2026

 

Organisers: Arman Martirosyan and Suheyla-Hacer Sahin

Research group SEARCH (UR 2325)

 

Call for Papers for an Edited Volume - Train Narratives in India: Marking 100 Years of the Electric Train in India (1925–2025)

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:52am
DoctorsBhattacharya
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 20, 2025

 

Call for Papers for an Edited Volume

Train Narratives in India: Marking 100 Years of the Electric Train in India (1925–2025)

 

Concept Note

2025 marks the centenary of the electric train in India, a moment that invites us to reflect on the rich and complex presence of trains in the subcontinent’s cultural imagination. From their colonial introduction as instruments of control and commerce to their transformation into symbols of progress, partition, migration, and everyday life, trains have profoundly shaped the way India moves—and tells stories.

Welty's Dissident Spaces Panel at Conference of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature (March 28-31, 2026 at Fisk University in Nashville, TN)

updated: 
Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:49am
Eudora Welty Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 5, 2025

Welty's Dissident Spaces

Panel at Conference of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature (March 28-31, 2026 at Fisk University in Nashville, TN)

Co-coordinated by Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Mae Miller Claxton, & Rebecca L. Harrison

Special Issue of Waves: Experiencing Environments

updated: 
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 - 4:14pm
Waves: An Undergraduate Journal / University of Florida Writing Program)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 31, 2026

The Waves team is excited to announce an upcoming special issue, “

Call for Manuscripts: Digital Defoe

updated: 
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 12:42pm
Digital Defoe
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 19, 2026

Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries (https://cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe/) is an open-access, mutually-anonymous peer-reviewed journal exploring the intersection of Defoe and/or his contemporaries and digital humanities.

We strongly encourage the submission of innovative digital and multimedia projects, as well as experimental essays and pedagogical approaches.

 Full submission guidelines and archived issues of the journal may be found on the website: https://cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe/policies.html

Waves of Exchange: Shakespeare and the Theatrical Imagination of the Mediterranean

updated: 
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 11:07am
NEMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

This panel explores the regenerative power of early modern drama and travel narratives, focusing on how these texts reimagine cultural encounters, expand geographic and imaginative boundaries, and challenge traditional understandings of self and the other, with particular emphasis on the Mediterranean as a vital site of exchange. In harmony with the conference theme of (Re)generation, this panel invites papers that investigate how Shakespeare and his contemporaries engaged with the Mediterranean as a space of constant (re)formation, where diverse cultures, languages, and religions converged, influencing both dramatic form and narrative structure.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

CFP: 2026 Steinbeck Conference, “Steinbeck in Times of Crisis," March 11-13, 2026

updated: 
Friday, September 12, 2025 - 10:40am
International Society of Steinbeck Scholars
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 1, 2025

Call For Papers: “Steinbeck in Times of Crisis”

March 11-13th, 2026
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

The International Society of Steinbeck Scholars invites proposals related to the ways in which John Steinbeck’s work offers insights into human experience during moments of crisis—including personal, social, cultural, political, or ecological. We seek contributions that broaden understanding of how Steinbeck's writing addresses such themes as conflict, collaboration, resolution, resilience, and survival, and how these resonate in today's world.

Travel and Cinema: A View for the Present

updated: 
Monday, September 8, 2025 - 5:40pm
The American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) 2026 Annual Meeting
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 2, 2025

Chair: Sanjukta Banerjee, York University

 

CfP ACLA 2026 - Translationscapes of Southeast Asia

updated: 
Monday, September 8, 2025 - 11:59am
Camellia Pham (Harvard University), Phrae Chittiphalangsri (Chulalongkorn University)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 2, 2025

To designate a space as “Southeast Asia” is already to engage a particular epistemology and toponym. Conveniently positioned as the marginal extension of both Indian and Chinese spheres, hence the colonial coinage of “Indochina,” the landscape of what we now call “Southeast Asia” (SEA) emerges from intersecting, if not competing, imperial imaginaries. A regional construct shaped by strategic demarcation and modern taxonomies, SEA (Đông Nam Á, Asia Tenggara, Asie du Sud-Est, Asia Selatan-Timur, Timog-Silangang Asya, Echia Tawan-ok Chiang Tai, Dōngnányà/Nányáng) has been translated into political discourse and variously reappropriated in local languages and scholarly traditions.

Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, & Personal Narrative

updated: 
Thursday, August 28, 2025 - 8:06am
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 31, 2025

Call for Papers

Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, & Personal Narrative

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open: September 1, 2025

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2025

 

Series on Travel Writing

updated: 
Thursday, August 28, 2025 - 8:05am
Instituto Nuevos Horizontes
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 1, 2026

Tinta regada (Spilled Ink) a multilingual publication, invites submissions for a Series on Travel Writing (Literatura de viajes). 

The editors of the literary magazine of the Instituto Nuevos Horizontes welcome personal commentaries, essays, poetry, short story and other forms, in any language, up to 2,500 words.

Send questions and submissions to nuevos.horizontes.uprm@gmail.com. 

Panel: On the Path of Joan of Arc: Tracing Johannic Itineraries through Art, War, and Tourism (Panel at International Conference for Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI)

updated: 
Friday, July 18, 2025 - 7:15am
International Joan of Arc Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

 Key cities in Joan of Arc’s history often emphasize associations with the Maid as important parts of their cultural identities and contributors to their economies. Catholic and secular organizations alike propose tours for those who wish to “live” some dimension of Joan’s history by visiting the sites where she was born, fought, and died.