journals and collections of essays

Teaching Literary Maximalism

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Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:04am
Benjamin Bergholtz and Yonina Hoffman/Louisiana Tech or U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 15, 2025

Call for Papers

Teaching Literary Maximalism

 

Queering the Public Humanities

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Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:04am
Elle Lapsen / Interspaces
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 1, 2025

Interspaces is an open-access, student-led journal that welcomes submissions in interdisciplinary work and research from inside and outside the proverbial ivory tower of the academic world. Interspaces currently seeks submissions for a special themed section, “Queering the Public Humanities.” The pitch deadline (200 words) is November 1, 2025. The final submission deadline is January 15, 2026. Click the link above to learn more about the theme and submission guidelines.

SEXTANT Journal: Call for submissions

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Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:03am
SEXTANT: masculinities, sexualities & decolonialities
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 17, 2025

SEXTANT (ISSN 2990-8124) is an online journal which navigates the lenses of masculinities, sexualities, and decolonialities.

SEXTANT aims to shift our understanding of these subjects while looking at the ways they intersect, especially in areas that are often overlooked. 

SEXTANT features the work of researchers, activists, and artists, welcoming submissions in a wide variety of mediums, such as research papers, book reviews, creative writing, visual art, and digital projects.

Now accepting submissions for Volume 3, Issue 2. Deadline for submissions is November 17, 2025.

Contaminated Bodies, Contaminated Lands: Transcorporeality in Eco-narratives

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Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:03am
Interdisciplinary Literary Studies. A Journal Of Criticism and Theory
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Call for Abstracts for a Special Issue

 Interdisciplinary Literary Studies. A Journal  Of Criticism and Theory 

Contaminated Bodies, Contaminated Lands:

Transcorporeality in Eco-narratives

Editors

Dr. Paula Wieczorek, Assistant Professor, Department of English Studies, University of Information Technology and Management, Poland. E-mail: pwieczorek@wsiz.edu.pl

The Cultural Imaginaries of (Dis)Trust

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Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:03am
Vilnius University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Journal LiteratūraVilnius University

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

The Cultural Imaginaries of (Dis)Trust 

 

 

 

Though more to know could not be more to trust,
From whence thou camest, how tended on: but rest
Unquestion’d welcome and undoubted blest.
Give me some help here, ho! If thou proceed
As high as word, my deed shall match thy meed.

 

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS — Mini Plays Review | December 2025 Issue Theme: UNFINISHED BUSINESS

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Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:03am
Mini Plays Review
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 15, 2025

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS — Mini Plays Review | December 2025 Issue
Theme: UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Deadline      December 15, 2025  
Format:       1-Minute Plays and Monologues  
Length:       Maximum one page (A4 size)  
Submission Email: miniplaysmag@gmail.comWebsite: 

The curtain didn’t close. The letter was never sent. The apology… still unspoken.

Mini Plays Review invites you to explore the weight of what’s left hanging — the stories suspended mid-air, the emotions caught in the throat, the promises half-made and paths not taken.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 'SNOWFALL AND STARLIGHT': A Christmas Haiku Anthology

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Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:03am
Fresh Words – An International Literary Magazine
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 28, 2025

                                                                      CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
SNOWFALL AND STARLIGHT: A Christmas Haiku Anthology

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/announcements

Submissions: specialanthologyfreshwordsmag@gmail.com

Deadline: November 28, 2025

Publication Date: December 5, 2025

SARGASSO Call for Contributions: Post-Narrative Futures in Caribbean Letters and Cultures

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Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:03am
Sargasso A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language & Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 31, 2025

The editors of Sargasso invite submissions for a volume on post-narrative futures in Caribbean letters and cultures that will engage works of literature, art, and culture that challenge, subvert, reimagine, and transcend, dominant colonial, postcolonial, and traditional forms of narrative.

Adapting Thackeray

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Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:02am
Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 19, 2026

Special Issue, Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film Call for Papers: 

Adapting Thackeray 

 

Dark Skies Appalachia

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Wednesday, September 24, 2025 - 12:02am
Anna Creadick
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 20, 2025

Edited Collection Dark Skies Appalachia

Proposal Deadline: 20 October 2025

Estimated Publication Date: 2027

 

Call for Papers: Dark Skies Appalachia

We invite proposals for contributions to Dark Skies Appalachia, a multidisciplinary collection which will explore the influence of a dark night sky on identity, culture, and sense of place in the Appalachian region, as well as the ecological and human impacts of light pollution and efforts to protect dark skies in and beyond the region. 

Comics and Animal Studies

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Wednesday, September 17, 2025 - 12:41pm
CLOSURE: Journal of Comics Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Call for Papers – CLOSURE: Journal of Comics Studies #13 (November 2026)

Open Call for Submissions

 CLOSURE: Journal of Comics Studies will once again provide a platform for all facets of comic studies in its thirteenth issue, to be published in Fall 2026. From cultural, visual, and media studies to social and natural sciences and beyond, CLOSURE invites essays and academic reviews that engage with the »state of the comic.« Whether in-depth analysis, comic theory, or innovative new approaches—for the open topic section, we welcome diverse contributions from the interdisciplinary field of comics research.

Thematic Section: »Animal Studies«

The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies (JOTSS) -- Inaugural Issue -- Call for Papers

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Wednesday, September 17, 2025 - 10:22am
The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies (JOTSS)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, December 13, 2025

 

The Manuscript: Journal of Taylor Swift Studies (JOTSS)

Binghamton University’s Inaugural Issue

Call for Papers

Submission Deadline - December 13th, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST

Submission Website: https://orb.binghamton.edu/jotss/

 

Introduction and Journal Scope:

Post-Truth and Indigenous Environmental Justice in Canada: Myths, Media, and Reality

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Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - 3:26pm
Open Cultural Studies (De Gruyter), Edited by Kamelia Talebian Sedehi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) and Paula Wieczorek (University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów, Poland)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 31, 2025

Open Cultural Studies (www.degruyter.com/culture) invites submissions for a special issue entitled Post-Truth and Indigenous Environmental Justice in Canada: Myths, Media, and Reality.

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