The peer-reviewed NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture invites submissions for its 2010 issues. NINE seeks to promote the study of all historical aspects of baseball and centers on the cultural implications of the game wherever in the world baseball is played. The journal reflects an eclectic approach and does not foster a particular ideological bias.

Submissions can be emailed to tstrecker@bsu.edu. Electronic submissions are preferred. Hard-copy submissions can be addressed to

Trey Strecker, Editor
NINE: A Journal of Baseball History & Culture
Department of English
Ball State University
Muncie, IN 47306-0460

500-word proposals for papers and panels on all aspects of narrative in any genre, period, nationality, discipline, and medium. Submit with brief vita by 30 Oct 2009 to narrative@case.edu

*Call for Papers:
International Conference on Narrative
8-11 April 2010
Cleveland, Ohio*

NATIONAL POPULAR & AMERICAN CULTURE
ASSOCIATIONS 2010 JOINT CONFERENCE

March 31-April 3, 2010
The Conference will be held at the Renaissance Grand Hotel St. Louis, with additional space reserved at the America's Center, 701 Convention Plaza--across the street from the Renaissance Grand Hotel.
Renaissance Grand Hotel St. Louis

800 Washington Avenue

St. Louis, Missouri 63101

(314) 621 9600

1 (800) HOTELS-1 (800 468-3571)

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 30, 2009

We welcome papers and presentations on any aspect of the Gothic in film, literature, or other forms of cultural expression. All critical approaches are welcome.

Deadline - December 15th 2009

The Vampire in literature, Culture and Film area of the PCA/ACA is soliciting papers and/or presentations on any aspect of the television series' BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER OR ANGEL or any other aspect of the Whedon universe.

Please email a 250-300 word abstract to:
Melissa Anyiwo, Curry College
manyiwo0807@curry.edu

Visit the PCA/ACA Website for more details:
http://pcaaca.org/conference/national.php

MYNAH: A Literature and Arts Quarterly seeks to publish emerging and established creative writers whose work helps promote tolerance, liberty, openness, transparency and democracy, through literature and arts, in and around Pakistan. By launching MYNAH, the editorial team seeks to establish an institution where all are welcome and encouraged solely because of the merit of their creativity. By establishing a transparent and anonymous review process, MYNAH hopes to create a culture where all contributors are comfortable about the editorial decisions. With the editors of MYNAH, there are no hierarchies other than talent and courage.

Center: A Journal of the Literary Arts invites submissions for a symposium on the importance of place in creative nonfiction, to appear in its next issue (spring 2010).

We encourage you to consider place from a variety of perspectives. What is its role in the essay? in memoir? in literary journalism? How do concerns about conveying a sense of place affect your own work? in what ways do you see issues of place animating the work of others? How is place specific or general? Must place be physical or is it temporal as well? What role does craft play in the development of place?