Life Writing
Special Issue 2005

"Reconsidering Genre"

Guest editors: Gabriele Helms and Laurie McNeill

PHILAMENT invites contributors for its fifth edition. This upcoming issue is to
circulate around ideas of Ornament.

Deadline: Friday 27th August 2004.

Ornamental ideas, suggestions, texts or otherwise:

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Star Trek Franchise Effect: Cultural Reception and Interpretation

Call for Papers: The Star Trek franchise and associated cultural phenomena, a volume to be edited by Lincoln Geraghty.

NMEDIAC, The Journal of New Media & Culture, is soliciting traditional
research and or theory-based articles for the upcoming Winter 2004 issue.
The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2004.

NMEDIAC is a scholarly peer-reviewed online publication. It is an
intellectual canvas where the cultural spaces and experiences of new media
are theorized and rigorously explored within global and local
contingencies of the present and past. In particular, we encourage
submission of cross-disciplinary research of new media texts, users, and
technologies. Works that incorporate either or both humanities and social
science approaches to scholarship are welcome.

NMEDIAC, The Journal of New Media & Culture, is soliciting traditional
research and or theory-based articles for the upcoming Winter 2004 issue.
The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2004.

NMEDIAC is a scholarly peer-reviewed online publication. It is an
intellectual canvas where the cultural spaces and experiences of new media
are theorized and rigorously explored within global and local
contingencies of the present and past. In particular, we encourage
submission of cross-disciplinary research of new media texts, users, and
technologies. Works that incorporate either or both humanities and social
science approaches to scholarship are welcome.

Call for contributions to a volume on depression and narrative.

Call For Papers for the inaugural issue of _Shakespeare_, the journal of
the British Shakespeare Association

Contributions are invited for the inaugural issue of a new journal
entitled _Shakespeare_ to be published by Routledge in 2005. The
journal will bring together Shakespeare scholarship and Shakespeare in
performance in order to open newly emergent debates across disciplines,
and will be published online twice a year and in a bound paper volume
comprising two issues once a year. For this inaugural issue
contributions on all topics and approaches to Shakespeare will be
considered. The articles selected will be peer-reviewed.

Oprah Winfrey is arguably the most important influence on reading and
literacy in the past fifty years. She devotes considerable time on her
talk show to reading and talking about books, and every book she asks
her TV audience to read immediately becomes a bestseller. Furthermore,
Oprah's book club continues an ongoing literary debate in America. Its
middle-class women's readership provokes critical anxiety about the
state of American letters, and the ability of a commercialized American
culture to sustain artistic production, that has been a recurring theme
in American cultural debates since at least Van Wyck Brooks' "America's
Coming of Age." Given Oprah's importance in this long-standing culture

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 15 August 2004

                          M/C - Media and Culture
            is calling for contributors to the 'order' issue of

                                M/C Journal
                   http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

The award-winning M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a
crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and
peer-reviewed journal.

Readers are invited to submit pieces for a book project which will
consist of original feminist fairy tales and psychological/cultural
analytical/interpretative essays about the tales. If you are interested
in participating, I'll need expressions of interest, abstracts, or
proposals by 9/15/04; I must have the stories and essays by 1/15/05.
Since some of the writing you do may involve self-disclosure, I will
need your mailing address so that I can mail you the requisite Indiana
University "human subject" permission form for this type of writing
project if I accept your work for inclusion in the collection. I will
also send-via e-mail-if you'd like to see it, a model story ("Beauty and

'Bush Culture' Review Series

Bad Subjects invites reviews (750-1000 words) or review essays (1000-3000 words) on music, books, comics, films, television, theater, art, street performance, or any cultural production associated with the political culture created by the current Bush administration. We will be especially interested in critical discussions of anti-Bush culture and their counter-politics.

Bad Subjects is a heterodox progressive journal located on the English Server (Iowa State University) at http://eserver.org/bs, with approximately 5000 readers daily. This review series will help inaugurate a new website for the journal to be unveiled on September 1, 2004.

Call for Content:

Alexander Street Press is seeking brief biographies of American Dramatists
in exchange for publishing credits. Bios need to be 500-800 words and will
be included in scholarly collections for electronic publication. Interested
parties should contact Wendi Slagle at wslagle_at_astreetpress.com with the
subject of the email as BIOGRAPHIES.

Wendi Slagle
Editor
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
Fax: 305-489-3702
wslagle_at_Astreetpress.com

Deadline extended

I am seeking contributors for a volume in the Dictionary of Literary
Biography series with the working title _North American University
Presses_. Entries will range in length from 3000-8000 words, and offer
a chronological overview of the history of each press, discuss the
press's significance, editorial emphases, and current publishing
activities. Contributors receive a small honorarium and a copy of the
volume. The deadline for submission of completed entries is 1 January
2005.

The following presses, with essay lengths, are still available: