Due to the dates of Spring Break, the deadline for submissions for M E S T
ER 2005 Call for Papers has been extended to April 15, 2005.

M E S T E R

2005 Call for Papers, General Issue

Mester, the yearly graduate student academic journal of the Department of
Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA, seeks articles for its upcoming general
issue to be published in June 2005.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Slayage.tv's 'Watcher Junior'

Lynne Edwards (Editor) and Katy Stevens (Associate Editor) of Watcher
Junior, invite your submissions for the first issue of WJ, a refereed,
electronic journal for undergraduate student scholarship in Buffy
Studies. WJ is located at Slayage: The Online International Journal of
Buffy Studies (http://www.slayage.tv).

Completed essays and research papers will be reviewed by members of the
board and will be accepted for publication if three reviewers
approve.  Essays that do not receive approval for publication will be
returned with feedback for re-submission.

Call for Papers: Theorizing Fan Fiction (edited volume)

New deadline: May 15, 2005

Overview

Creating a Critical Conversation on Mark Strand

Mark Strand is one of America's best poets, yet little critical work
has been published on Strand's poetry. This panel invites papers that
address any aspect of Strand's poetry from a critical perspective. The
deadline for abstract submissions is April 25, 2005. The AWP conference
will be held in Austin, TX in March 2006.

Please send abstracts (200-500 words), either by email, or snail mail
to:

Dr. Julianna Gray
Haley Center 9030
English Department
Auburn University
Auburn University, AL 36849
vicejul_at_auburn.edu

CUE's second issue is now available, featuring new
work by Rita Dove (Pulitzer Prize winner, and author
of American Smooth), Russell Edson, A. Van Jordan
(author of Rise and the forthcoming M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A),
Sally Keith (author of Dwelling Song, winner of the
University of Georgia's Contemporary Poetry Series for
2003) Mark Yakich (author of Unrelated Individuals
Forming a Group Waiting to Cross, winner of the 2003
National Poetry Series), Robin Behn (author of Horizon
Note, winnter of the 2003 Brittingham Prize in
Poetry), Matthea Harvey (Sad Little Breathing
Machine), Matthew Thorburn, Justin Jamail, Joel
Bettridge, an interview with Karen Volkman (Crash's
Law, Spar), and much more.

CUE's second issue is now available, featuring new
work by Rita Dove (Pulitzer Prize winner, and author
of American Smooth), Russell Edson, A. Van Jordan
(author of Rise and the forthcoming M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A),
Sally Keith (author of Dwelling Song, winner of the
University of Georgia's Contemporary Poetry Series for
2003) Mark Yakich (author of Unrelated Individuals
Forming a Group Waiting to Cross, winner of the 2003
National Poetry Series), Robin Behn (author of Horizon
Note, winnter of the 2003 Brittingham Prize in
Poetry), Matthea Harvey (Sad Little Breathing
Machine), Matthew Thorburn, Justin Jamail, Joel
Bettridge, an interview with Karen Volkman (Crash's
Law, Spar), and much more.

Call for Papers

The fifteenth biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies will take place March 9-11 2006 in Sarasota, Florida. The program committee invites one-page abstracts of proposed twenty-minute papers on topics in European and Mediterranean history, literature, art, and religion from the fourth to the seventeenth centuries. Interdisciplinary work is particularly appropriate to the conference's broad historical and disciplinary scope. Planned sessions are welcome.

Call for Contributors: Facts on File Companion to Pre-1600 British
Poetry
Edited by Michelle M. Sauer

Looking for qualified individuals to write short entries on various
topics related to poetry, poets, and specific poems of the medieval and
Tudor eras. This includes Irish, Scottish, and Welsh verse as well.
Contributors will receive full credit for their work.

If you are interested, please send an inquiry to:
<pre1600poetry_at_yahoo.com>. Your e-mail should contain a brief overview
of your qualifications and interests. Graduate students welcome to
inquire. There are a series of rolling deadlines.

CFP: Revising the Force: Critical Engagements with the Star Wars
Trilogies (anthology).

Call for Papers for Modern Fiction Studies

      Toni Morrison * Summer 2006
      Deadline for Submission: 1 Sept. 2005

CFP: MP E-Journal

LiNQ (Literature in North Queensland) is a long-running journal
published in May and October by the Dept.of Humanities at JCU (Qld,
Australia). LiNQ seeks submissions of short fiction, poetry and
essays/thinkpieces from both publsihed and new authors. Poetry in the
original language is especially welcome and will be printed with a
facing page translation. B/W photos and illustrations are welcome.
Please send submissions/ queries to the General Editor, Dr Dosia
Reichardt,English, JCU Cairns, PO BOX 6811, Smithfield 4868, Australia.
email: Dosia.Reichardt_at_jcu.edu.au

Call for Papers:

Call For Proposals: "Agency in the Margins: the History of Outsider
Rhetoric"

Edited by Anne Meade Stockdell-Giesler, Ph.D.