“We learn when we take risks. We learn when we do something we have not done before…otherwise we are not learning.” – Dr. David Docterman, “Developing Academic Mindsets for Literacy,” 2016.

We are seeking proposals for contributions to an edited collection of essays, titled Unruly Fictions: Geographies of Genre in the Contemporary Global Novel, focused on how the contemporary global novel expands the generic boundaries of fiction. This collection returns to a question that is at this point familiar terrain within literary studies: what is a novel? Our goal in this collection is to approach this question through scholarly essays that span a broad geographic scope and rethink the idea of “global” within and beyond established binaries: global norths and souths, easts and wests, colonial centers and peripheries, travelers and travelees. 

Between the New Negro and Black Arts Movements

Langston Hughes's long career spanned these two movements, with his first collection, The Weary Blues, appearing in 1926, and his final collection, The Panther and the Lash, appearing two months after his death in 1967. The Langston Hughes Society invites papers related to the decades between the New Negro and Black Arts Movements, or to artists who are not typically associated with those movements.

In a world saturated with images in which audiovisual storytelling has dominated for decades shaping the aesthetics and expectations of the audience, and in which binge-consuming TV series on digital platforms and homemade videos on social media have become the trend of the last few years, it is quite unexpected to witness the reemergence of a storytelling that resists visual representation.  Of course, audio storytelling is not new; Stories voiced for the ear to listen have been with us since early on, for as long as there have been stories to share. What has changed in recent years, whetting our story-listening appetite anew, are the computing technologies ever rapidly developed for audio production, distribution and reception.

https://www.acla.org/poetic-language-now

Organizer: Rebecca Kosick

Co-Organizer: Nathan Taylor

Poetry has exploded off the page in recent decades, making a prominent home for itself in new semiotic and material environments. Poems circulate on subway systems, through platforms and apps, on placards at protests, in art museums, and the built environment. These poems, in turn, are composed in a variety of human and nonhuman languages, from Spanglish to mathematics, code to GPT-language models. 

Literary Druid is a journal that fosters research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute for learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.

• Conference theme: Connections
• Date and location of conference: Friday, October 27, 2023 at Northwestern Oklahoma State University in Alva, Oklahoma 
• Length of conference sessions: 45 minutes 
• Length of session proposals: 100 - 150 words
• Session proposal deadline: EXTENDED to October 1, 2023 at 11:59 PM CST
• To submit session proposals, CLICK HERE 
• Conference registration deadline: October 20, 2023 at 11:59 PM CST

Messengers from the Stars:

On Science Fiction and Fantasy

No. 7, 2024

Guest Editor: Ana Daniela Coelho

Co-editor: Diana Marques

Messengers from the Stars is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal, offering academic articles, reviews, and providing an outlet for a wide range of creative work inspired by science fiction and fantasy. The 2023 issue will be dedicated to the following theme:

Adapting Fantasy and Sci-Fi in the Age of Streaming

Call for Online Book Chapters

Title: Transcultural Media Narratives: Mapping the Cross-Cultural Communication Landscape

Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 October 2023

Editors: Prof. Eduardo CAMILO & Prof. Karima BOUZIANE

Publisher and copyright: LABCOM, Comunicação e Artes,

Universidade da Beira Interior,

Rua Marquês D’Ávila e Bolama,

6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal.

Rationale

Call for Papers

Literature-General

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

45th Annual Conference, February 21-24, 2024

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on September 1, 2023

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2023

Call for Papers, Post-Colonial Literature at CEA 2024

March 21-23 | Atlanta, Georgia

The Westin Buckhead Atlanta

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Post-Colonial Literature for our 53rd annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org.

Our conference theme in 2024 is Transformations, and studies related to Post-Colonial Literature seem especially concerned with transformations of all kinds. Please refer to the general Call for Papers for more information.

The deadline for paper and panel proposals for the MWASECS conference has been extended to SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24.

MWASECS 2023 Conference, Nov. 16-18

Devils and Justified Sinners

An online conference on 24th and 25th August 2024 to mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

The conference is entirely online and is open to scholars and experts from around the world.

- DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 29 SEPTEMBER -