american

Fabulating history in contemporary bio/fiction

1 /2027

Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philologia

philologia.studia@ubbcluj.ro

Guest editors

Ágnes Zsófia Kovács, University of Szeged, Hungary

agnes.zsofia.kovacs@gmail.com

Anna Kérchy, University of Szeged, Hungary 

Website: westcoastreview.org

West Coast Review (SDSU Press) is seeking art, flash fiction, short stories, and any creative prose that falls in-between. This includes creative non-fiction, memoires, craft essays and experimental prose pieces. We accept all genres--we just want pieces that are bold and embrace the diversity found on the west coast!

Guidelines:

We accept simultaneous submissions, but please withdraw your submission if accepted elsewhere. We do not accept previously published work. We do not consider work posted to blogs, personal websites, or social media to be previously published. We do not accept work that has been created with AI.

We are happy to announce that the Department of English Studies at the University of Zadar is organizing an international scientific conference titled Contemporary Horizons in English Studies (CHES). The conference theme, Contemporary Horizons in English Studies, casts a wide net, encompassing diverse areas and perspectives within the field. As we reflect on decades of growth in English studies and the 70-year history of our department, we also look toward the new horizons that continue to expand the boundaries of our discipline. Inspired by our department’s interdisciplinary spirit, the theme highlights a variety of research, teaching, and creative work taking place across English studies.

Environmental Histories of New England, 1600-2025

Friday, September 18, 2026

Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA

Deadline 1/1/26 

Studies in American Humor, the journal of the American Humor Studies Association, invites submissions of scholarly papers for a special issue of the journal to appear in fall 2027, edited by Wesley Scott McMasters and Todd Nathan Thompson. The topic of this special issue is “Periodicals, Period: Humor and Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers and Magazines.” This special issue will be an extension of a well-received panel on this topic (co-sponsored by the American Humor Studies Association and the Research Society for American Periodicals) at the 2025 American Literature Association conference.

This call is for the American Literature Association Conference in Chicago, May 20-23, 2026!

The Sherwood Anderson Society is dedicated to the examination and exploration of the works of Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941).  The scholarly interests of this society are, but not exclusively, Anderson’s relationship fellow writers, author’s biography, the Midwest, expatriatism, the fiction of war, cosmopolitanism vs provincialism, urban vs rural, stylistic modernism, and pre and post-industrial United states. Please contact Doug Sheldon at sheldond@uic.edu with any inquiries.

Call For Presentations I: Sherwood Anderson at 150!

Penn State’s Center for American Literary Studies presents

Urgent Lessons from Antifascist Works of American Literature and Culture

Friday, December 12, 2025, Noon—1:00 p.m. EST via Zoom

 Register here

https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QD77CICpR267kwXJgIB56g

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email

Call for Papers from the Carson McCullers Society

American Literature Association Annual Convention, May 20-23, 2026, Chicago, IL

The Short Fiction of Carson McCullers: New Directions in Scholarship

Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference 2026

“Building Spaces of Freedom,” March 28th-31st at Fisk University, Nashville, TN

Panel: Building Emerging Spaces of Freedom

The Emerging Scholars Organization (ESO) invites papers that center emerging perspectives on SSSL’s conference theme, Building Spaces of Freedom. This panel foregrounds the ongoing labor of emerging scholars who navigate long histories of exclusion, gatekeeping, and uneven access while also reshaping southern studies through new interventions, methods, and archival practices.

The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) welcomes proposals for its annual conference, hosted by the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France.

This year's conference invites papers on any topic relating to histories of women and gender non-conforming people in the Americas, but encourages proposals for papers, panels or roundtables that explore the subject of confinement.

Call for Papers

The Society for the Study of American Literary Naturalism

American Literature Association 37th Annual Conference

May 20-23, 2026

Chicago, IL

The Frank Norris Society, The Jack London Society, the Stephen Crane Society, and the Theodore Dreiser Society have united for the American Literature Association into the Society for the Study of American Literary Naturalism.