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The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature seeks articles, creative fiction and poetry, book reviews, and notes in the spirit of or regarding the life and work of Rawlings, her circle, and other authors who use the state of Florida as a source of in.
The annual conference of the American Literature Association will meet at the Westin Copley Place in Boston on May 23-26, 2019 (Thursday through Sunday of Memorial Day weekend).
The Jonathan Bayliss Society will sponsor one roundtable discussion on Experiments in Narrative Form in American Fiction.
American fiction abounds in experimental narrative form, from Melville, Dos Passos, and Djuna Barnes through Faulkner, Kerouac, Barth, Kathy Acker, Jonathan Bayliss, and many others. The Jonathan Bayliss Society invites proposals on American novels that engage in such experiment.
The roundtable will be comprised of several brief (8-10 minute) presentations.
Graduate students are especially welcome to submit proposals.
Elizabeth Bowen Review: Volume 2, 2019, Call for Papers
The editors of the Elizabeth Bowen Review are seeking scholarly and innovative essays for publication in the second volume of the journal in May 2019.
Essays may cover any theme or specific work, but the editors are particularly interested in the less-explored areas of Bowen scholarship. These include:
Bowen’s short stories
Bowen as a reviewer and critic
Bowen’s travel writing (e.g. A Time in Rome)
Bowen’s non-fictional writings (Bowen’s Court, Seven Winters, The Shelbourne)
Bowen as a comic writer
Call for Papers | 2019 Annual Karl Barth Conference
June 16-19, 2019
Fifty years from Barth’s own death and one-hundred years from the publication of the Römerbrief, the conference examines how fresh encounters with Karl Barth’s dogmatic theology and biblical exegesis might stimulate, inform, shape, and challenge contemporary reflection on the range of eschatological themes in Christian theology.
Paper and panel proposals are invited for
Palimpsests: V International Flann O'Brien Society Conference
16-19 July 2019
Hosted by University College Dublin, Newman House and the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) in cooperation with The International Flann O'Brien Society.
Guest Writers
This is a CFP for a panel proposal "Moves Towards Modernism: The British Theatre Before WWI," which will hopefully take place at the 2019 Comparative Drama Conference in Orlando, Florida from April 4-6, 2019. See the Comparative Drama Conference website for more information on the conference and keynote, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
CFP: “Staging the Space Between, 1914-1945”
21st Annual Conference of The Space Between Society: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945
May 30-June 1, 2019
South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD
What is the role of staging in The Space Between? What does it look like, where does it occur, and how does it function?
MSIA2
“The Times they are a Changin’: Spaces and Temporality”
Postgraduate Event for the Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA)
12 September 2019
Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo
Call for Papers: Postgraduate Roundtables
Please consider submitting an abstract to the panel described below for the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, to be held June 26-30, 2019, at the University of California, Davis. Representing Empire in British Modernism—A Crisis of Environmental Aesthetics
The editors of English: The Journal of the English Association are pleased to invite submissions to the journal's annual essay prize competition exclusive to postgraduates.
The competition is open to any postgraduate student who is registered on a doctoral programme at any institution anywhere in the world, by, or within three months of, the submission deadline.
The deadline for submissions is October 22nd, 2018 with the winner being announced in January 2019.