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Erudite Creative Writing Techniques: 2026 AWP Conference Session

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:08pm
Anna Faktorovich / Anaphora Literary Press
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 14, 2025

I would like to organize a session at the AWP Conference, March 4-7. I would like to present the research I am currently developing for a book called "Writing Erudite Speculative Fiction". I hope to find other presenters who would like to discuss strategies about formulaic, genre-based, or other types of fiction writing strategies, especially aimed at the literary or sophisticated marketplace. This session is tailored for professors of creative writing who want unique approaches to teaching. The rules are: 

Luminous Call for Papers

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:06pm
Sophia Luminous
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Greetings everyone!

We are excited to announce the commencement of abstract submissions for the fourth volume of Sophia Luminous.

Sophia Luminous ( ISSN: 3048-6211) is a national-level, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary online research journal for students, published by Sophia College for Women (Autonomous), Mumbai, India. It is devoted to the discussion of the innovative, novel, and contemporary areas of research by undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and early researchers from an array of disciplines.

This issue is not thematically restricted, and we invite previously unpublished research papers that are written by students ranging from undergraduate to MPhil degree.

Emerson, Memory, and Oblivion

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:06pm
PAMLA / Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Emerson, Memory, and Oblivion

CFP "For the Record"

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:05pm
liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 15, 2026

liquid blackness ISSUE 11.1 CFP – “FOR THE RECORD”CFPs

liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 11, no. 1, Spring 2027

Submissions due January 15, 2026

Chenkaantal - Call for papers - Date Extended to June 2025

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:05pm
Maheswari Publishers (The publishing unit of PANDIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST- TN32D0026797)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

 

Aims and Scope

Chenkaantal (E-ISSN: 2583-0481) is a pioneer Diamond Open Access Journal for Tamil studies. The journal is dedicated to the academic research of Tamil language, Tamil Literature, Tamil Culture, Tamil Linguistics and other modern trends in Tamil studies.

Call for

Literary Musings - Regular Issue July 2025

updated: 
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - 2:04pm
Literary Musings
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Call for - Literary Musings Online - 2584-1459 - July 2025
Academic Journal
Research Academy

Sapphic Echoes: Representations of Female Love and Desire in Literature and the Visual Arts

updated: 
Tuesday, May 27, 2025 - 2:54pm
Diana Shaffer / PAMLA 122nd annual conference, San Francisco, CA, Nov 20-23, 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Sapphic Echoes: Representations of Female Desire in Litererature and the Visual Arts

This panel asks questions and invites responses that explore representations of female love and desire in literature and the visual arts. How have the complex poetics of female love and desire—the desire to have something, or escape something, or punish, or know—been represented over time? What strategies have been employed to subvert literary conventions defined predominantly by male perspectives on home, love, war, victory and loss? How have female characters navigated the interplay between things done (overtly) and thought (covertly) to reveal the inner web of desires, fears and conflicts that constitute a female poetics of love and longing? 

JEASA - Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia - permanent call

updated: 
Monday, May 26, 2025 - 10:31am
Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

 

The Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia (JEASA) was founded and has been maintained by the European Association for Studies of Australia (EASA) since 2009. It is a double blind peer-reviewed, open-access online journal published twice a year, intended to showcase both European and Australian scholarhip in the field of Australian studies.

CFP From the European South, 19, Fall 2026 Special Issue: Dark Tourism in Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Contexts: Topographies of Suffering, Narrative Constructions and the Consumption of Place(s)

updated: 
Monday, May 26, 2025 - 10:31am
From the European South journal
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

CFP From the European South, 19, Fall 2026

Special Issue: Dark Tourism in Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Contexts: Topographies of Suffering, Narrative Constructions and the Consumption of Place(s) 

Guest Editors: Eleonora Federici (University of Ferrara) and Marilena Parlati (University of Padova)

Call for Papers for dialog no 45 (spring 2025)

updated: 
Monday, May 26, 2025 - 10:17am
Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 25, 2025

Call for Papers

dialog, No. 45, Spring 2025

dialog, a Peer-reviewed, Bi-annual International Journal of the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India is open to submissions for its next issue, No. 45, Spring 2025 (ISSN: 0975 - 4881). dialog provides a forum for interdisciplinary research on diverse aspects of culture, society and literature. For its forthcoming issue, Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University specifically invites:

 

CFP Blood and Bile: Perspectives from the humanities, art and gaming culture on Blasphemous

updated: 
Monday, May 26, 2025 - 4:38am
Jonas Müller-Laackman; Victoria Mummelthei / c:hum
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

In the fictional world of ‘Cvstodia’, a nameless ‘penitent’ traverses a world in which the ‘miracle’ - a divine entity - is worshipped through physical torment and suffering in a gloomy body horror style. In doing so, ‘Blasphemous’ transforms the established conventions of the ‘souls-like’ genre: the difficulty typical of the genre and the cyclical approach to failure are theologically charged. The progress made by defeating boss enemies is enhanced by sacred weapons and rituals, while the level design is recontextualised as a spiritual pilgrimage. These elements are embedded in an elaborate ecclesiastical infrastructure and open up multiple levels of analysis, e.g:

EXTENDED DEADLINE - Henri Bergson: Memory and Intuition

updated: 
Sunday, May 25, 2025 - 12:08pm
PAMLA: Special Session
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 31, 2025

In accordance with the conference theme, “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion,” the work of French philosopher Henri Bergson is more than relevant. Bergson’s Matter and Memory published in 1896 explores not only how memory functions in human activity, but the levels of memory and its importance to our lives.

Special Issue of Scopus Indexed Journal Dia-noesis ISSN: 2459-413X (print) ISSN: 2732-7507 (on-line)

updated: 
Sunday, May 25, 2025 - 5:53am
Special Guest Editor- Dr. Shikha Sharma Assistant Professor, Department of English , SRM University, Delhi NCR , India
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 20, 2025

This call for papers seeks to explore the rich and complex intersection of philosophical inquiry and narrative accounts of trauma and exile. Moving beyond disciplinary boundaries, it aims to investigate how philosophical concepts – such as subjectivity, time, memory, ethics, and belonging – are challenged, reshaped, and illuminated through the lived experiences and narrative expressions of those who have endured trauma and/or forced displacement.

Shakespeare: New Voices

updated: 
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 - 2:55pm
Dr Ian McCormick
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

In the context of media hostility and panic, what are the challenges faced by new scholars, audiences and learners?

How should Shakespeare be positioned in the twenty-first century cultural landscape?

Following the success of WOKE SHAKESPEARE: Rethinking Shakespeare for a New Era ... this * new * edited volume aims to explore some of the most recent conversations about teaching and performing Shakespeare in the age of woke cultural politics, culture wars, and social justice debates.

 

Contributors are invited to consider:

Teaching Twenty-First Century Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 - 11:32am
Mitch R. Murray
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Edited Collection: Teaching Twenty First Century Literature

Call for Papers: Giovanni Boccaccio’s One Hundred Tales

updated: 
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 - 4:27pm
Teaching the Middle Ages
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 21, 2025

Call for Papers: Giovanni Boccaccio’s One Hundred Tales

In honor of the 650th year of Giovanni Boccaccio’s passing, the Giovanni Boccaccio’s One Hundred Tales project is accepting papers on individual tales of The Decameron. We welcome papers and proposals from students!

 

About the project

17th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 6:01pm
Northwestern State University of Louisiana
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

The 17th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference will be held September 13, 2025, at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The conference committee is now accepting presentation proposals for the upcoming conference. Presentation proposals on any aspect of the 2025 conference theme “Louisiana Dramas,” as well as creative texts by, about, and/or for Louisiana and Louisianans, are sought for this year’s conference.

Trans Joy in Latin American Cinema

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:41pm
William R Benner Texas Woman's University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Call for Papers

Trans Joy in Latin American Cinema

Joy is a fundamental element of human life, yet its depiction in media and academic discourse— especially in relation to marginalized communities—remains limited. Representations of the trans* community, in particular, often center narratives of exclusion, violence, and trauma. As Shuster and Westbrook (2022) note, this tendency reflects a broader “joy deficit” in the sociological study of marginalized people, overshadowing the transformative power of joy and solidarity.

Journal of European Popular Culture

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:41pm
Journal of European Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 7, 2025

 

Journal of European Popular Culture

Intellect Publishers

Next issue - call for article/s

JEPC 16.1 and JEPC 16.2 - 2025 

& JEPC 17.1 - 2026  

This peer-reviewed journal seeks lively submissions for its latest issues on any aspect of European cultural and creative activity.

The 2025 issues are open at present

This peer reviewed journal is interested in contemporary practices, but also in historical, contextual, biographical or theoretical analyses relating to past cultural activities in Europe.

Inner Circles: Kinship, Inclusion, and Inaccessibility

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:41pm
Postcolonial Narrations
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

The family is often conceived in terms of exclusivity, closeness and intimacy. The word ‘intimate’ – intimus, or ‘most interior’, in the Latin – suggests that this relationship touches our innermost part, that which is deepest and hidden from view. Familial ties are further corporealized in terms of blood, or the physical proximity of shared space, resources, and memories, and acts of care. Broader ethnic, linguistic, cultural and national communities may be framed as extensions of this familial ‘inner circle’, as the concept of the body politic suggests; the family, for Rousseau, is ‘the first model of political societies’ (The Social Contract).

JEASA - Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia - Special Issue on Voicing Otherness: Reconfiguring Australia’s Postcoloniality?

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:41pm
The European Association for Studies on Australia
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

JEASA (the Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia) is looking for other 3 papers to conclude its special issue on 

Voicing Otherness: Reconfiguring Australia’s Postcoloniality?. This was originally a panel organized by professors Salhia Ben-Messahel 

(Université de Toulon, France) and Marilena Parlati (University of Padova, Italy), but we would like to further open the discussion to other

scholars worldwide.

This is the call:

Τ Ε Κ Μ Η Ρ Ι Α, 2 Greeks and Local Historiography

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:38pm
Università degli Studi di Salerno
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Following the first Τ Ε Κ Μ Η Ρ Ι Α Meeting, held in October 2023, and the publication of the Proceedings in December 2024 (https://shorturl.at/FQXE6), the initiative comes to its second edition, offering once again a space for exchange, confrontation and discussion in the wake of interdisciplinarity. Subject of this second Study and Research Meeting will be Greeks and Local Historiography.

The topics of the proposals may include:

Ekphrasis and the Music of Literature: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts

updated: 
Monday, May 19, 2025 - 3:38pm
Diana Shaffer / PAMLA 122nd annual conference San Francisco, CA, Nov 20-23.2025
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Ekphrasis and the Music of Literature: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts 

This roundtable invites proposals that explore the intersection of visual, aural, and verbal frontiers.  Although ekphrasis and musical form mirror words, they directly affect the emotions at a primordial level not available to verbal articulation. Ekphrasis translates words into visual images, whereas musical form translates them into sounds and rhythms. What are the differences between these modes of expression and how they affect their audiences? Papers that focus on the relationship of music to literature, the visual arts to literature, or on the interrelations of all three art forms are invited. 

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