general announcements

Social Inclusion, peer-reviewed journal indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index and Scopus, welcomes new and exciting research papers for its upcoming issue "Legal Perspectives on Balancing Life and Work in the 21st Century," edited by Melanie Hack (University of Bergen) and Lisa Waddington (University of Maastricht).

• Submission of Abstracts: 1-15 December 2026
• Submission of Full Papers: 1-15 May 2027
• Publication of the Issue: June/December 2027

About the issue:

Call for Submissions: The Pocket Poet (JANUARY 2027 Issue) deadline for submissions: December 25, 2026 Website: https://thepocketpoetjourn.wixsite.com/the-pocket-poet-1 
 contact email: thepocketpoetjournal@yahoo.com 

Call for Submissions: The Pocket Poet (JANUARY 2027 Issue)

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS  FRESH WORDS — AN INTERNATIONAL LITERARY MAGAZINE

Website:https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/home
Submissions: dramaanthologyfreshwords@gmail.com

  HELLO GODOT! (VOLUME 12)  An Anthology of Existential & Absurd Plays

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2026
Acceptance Notifications: October 05, 2026
Publication: October 2026

StructuresCarleton University
Ottawa, Canada
June 24-26, 2027

JAm It! Journal of American Studies in Italy invites submissions for its 2027 issue (no. 12). This open call welcomes contributions on any topic within the purview of American Studies, with no thematic restrictions.

Matt Dinniman’s LitRPG series Dungeon Crawler Carl (DCC) offers a complex narrative and somewhat unconventional rise to popularity, sparking academic and popular interest across disciplines, including media studies, narrative and genre studies, sociological studies, and fan studies. As such, we seek chapters exploring a range of interests. Of specific interest are chapter proposals addressing:

Call for Papers

Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, and Personal Narrative

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

48th Annual Conference, February 17-20, 2027

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://swpaca.org

Submissions open: September 1, 2026

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2026

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ONE MINUTE BEFORE NOTHING HAPPENS A Special International Anthology of Absurd & Existential One-Minute Plays UMBRELLAS FOR FISH An International Journal of Absurd & Existential Drama Website: https://ufjournal.wixsite.com/umbrellas-for-fish/issues-archive Submission email:  ufjournal@aol.com ABOUT THE ANTHOLOGY Umbrellas for Fish is pleased to announce a special international anthology of Absurd and Existentia

Call for Papers

Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Disaster

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

47th Annual Conference, February 25-28, 2026

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open: September 1, 2026

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2026

AACS 2027: Archipelagic Sovereignties

In June 2027, we invite you to join us on Gadigal Country at the University of Sydney for the Australian Association for Caribbean Studies (AACS) conference, organised by the Discipline of English and Writing and the United States Studies Centre (USSC), and held from the 10th to the 12th of June, 2027. AACS conferences are interdisciplinary, and papers on all topics relating to the Caribbean are considered, including from the natural sciences.

For 2027, we invite presenters to explore archipelagic sovereignties.

The Victorians Institute Journal (VIJ) is now accepting submissions for Volume 54. The VIJ is an award-winning scholarly journal of Victorian and Edwardian literary and cultural studies. We publish a variety of pieces, including articles, reviews, and rare texts. For further details, visit https://vijournal.org/.

Article submissions should be between 7K-9K words, and are welcome to address any aspect of Victorian and Edwardian literature, art, and culture. If you would like to submit a review for consideration, contact us directly through our email: victoriansinstitutejournal@gmail.com.

India's civilizational ethos is deeply rooted in its multilingual and multicultural fabric, where translation has enabled the circulation of ideas, texts, and knowledge across regions and traditions. Etymologically understood as "carrying across," translation in the 21st century extends beyond linguistic transfer to become a critical and interpretive practice.

We are all part of the body politic, and a wound to one is a wound to us all. In this spirit, we invite essays that excavate the less visible impact of ICE’s local mobilizations on Midwestern communities, the imprint on our bodies and spaces—not just on our streets, but in the quiet of our kitchens. Like the diversity of Midwestern landscapes, these essays will illuminate the varied physical, intellectual, spiritual, and artistic responses that arise from the violence of the state against its own people. Essays should be between 750 to 3000 words in length. Along with essays, we will consider poetry, photography, and graphic non-fiction.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: THE CITY IN THREE LINES  An Urban Haiku Anthology

Fresh Words – An International Literary Magazine

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  Key Dates

• Submission Deadline: September 30, 2026