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Call for Book Chapters
The Plant Turn: Literature, Ecology, and the Green Imagination Across Periods
“Under Strong Interest” by Bloomsbury Academic's Critical Plant Studies
Editor's Introduction
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!
The Literary Encylopedia is lacking an entry on the life and literary career of Leonard Cohen of ca. 2500 words covering biography and historical context and giving a brief overview of relevant works.
More detailed information on the Encyclopedia – including its publishing model, editorial policies, specific information for authors, etc. – can be found on its homepage at www.litencyc.com, under the ABOUT tab. If you wish to contribute, please contact volume editor Justin Parks (justin.parks@uit.no).
Chapter Proposal Abstract: Part I – Medieval Seeds
Speculative Futures in CanLit
Call for Papers
Article submissions in English or French are invited for a special 50th-anniversary issue of Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne on the theme of Speculative Futures in CanLit. The issue will be co-edited by John Clement Ball, Laura Moss, and Cynthia Sugars, and with a submission deadline of 15 May 2026.
This issue invites submissions on the myriad manifestations of the “speculative” and “future” in the field of Canadian literature, from submissions about speculative fiction and cultural texts, to environmental and/or political futures, to speculations about the future of Canadian literature itself.
Call for Submissions! The Lamp is seeking submissions for its 2026 issue (Volume 16)!
The Lamp is an international literary journal dedicated to showcasing the creative writing of graduate and professional students. If you write poetry, short fiction, scripts, creative nonfiction, or any other form of textual art, please submit your work to The Lamp at thelampeditor@gmail.com. The deadline is Sunday, 11 January 2026. Please follow our submission guidelines below.
Submission Guidelines:
Guest editor: Maxime Fecteau
Primordial and born of Chaos, Gaia wears many faces. In Hesiod’s Theogony she is a fertile, earth-bodied mother; she is also an insurgent force—ally to the Titans and to violent births. This constitutive ambivalence—nourishing ground and upheaval, regeneration and revolt—guides the 15th issue of MuseMedusa. We follow the figure to probe the regimes of time and action it exceeds, while noting how modern representational devices have narrowed its plurality of faces (Latour, 1991; 2015). In short, understanding Gaia today means holding Greek myth together with attention to planetary change.
Queen’s Graduate Conference in Literature
Call for Papers | Haunted Bodies
Date: May 22-24, 2026 Location: Queen’s University, Kingston and Online
Submissions due: January 12, 2026
Explorations: A Journal of Language and Literature is a peer-refereed online journal published by the University of Opole, Poland (for more information and the current issue see http://www.explorations.uni.opole.pl).
The London Arts-Based Research Centre
Women who Create: The Feminine and the Arts
A Transdisciplinary Conference
Conference webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2025/11/18/women-who-create-2026/
March 28-30, 2026
Where:
March 28-29: In person participation at Cambridge University and online
March 30: Fully online
Fees (for both presenters and attendees):
195 GBP (in person)
100 GBP (Online)
Prices exclude eventbrite fees
Abstract: Deadline January 15, 2026
- Call for Presentation Proposals - Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference
Saturday July 11 – Sunday July 12, 2026
University College London (Bloomsbury Campus)
This is the exciting 29th Annual Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference!
Closing Date for Submissions: January 24, 2026*
The conference will be held in person.
Proposal submission: conference@greatwriting.org.uk
The International T. S. Eliot Society’s hosting a two-day, virtual symposium open to all members free of charge (registration is required, please see information below). Rather than a traditional conference featuring several panels of 20-minute scholarly presentations, this symposium will consist of two ninety-minute sessions (one each day) that will emphasize discovery and conversation while promoting work in progress and community. The first session, on Thursday, March 5 (at 10 a.m. EST), will feature 5-minute presentations and discussion about newly published primary materials; the second session, on Friday, March 6 (at 10 a.m. EST), will provide an opportunity for participants to get feedback on works in progress.
Call for Papers: Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture after 1900
The International T. S. Eliot Society will sponsor a panel at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture after 1900 (in person, Feb. 19-21). We will consider proposals on any topic relating to T. S. Eliot’s life, work, and influence. If you are interested in attending in person, please send a proposal of about 300 words and a brief bio to dickeyf@missouri.edu by December 15, 2025.
Williams and Little Magazines
In his Autobiography William Carlos Williams describes little magazines as having “saved [his] life as a writer” (135). Poetry and other small magazines (including The Dial, Others, and The Little Review) were vital in growing Williams’s audience and in hosting and shaping the conversation around his modernist poetics. In 1920, Williams even joined artists Marsden Hartley, Lola Ridge, and Robert McAlmon in founding their own, Contact.
We invite papers on Williams, print culture, and the little magazines. Possible subjects include:
Stevens and Fiction | American Literature Association 2026 | Chicago, IL | May 2026
Whether you have a chapbook coming up or want to start a new one, need a seedling idea for a novel or a first draft of a novelette, a play, a series of artistic sketches (note: sub the word writing with art every time we use it,) we have a one of a kind experience to make your writing take shape. A concentrated, transformative, and FUN experience to break your patterns and look at your writing in a different light! Writing does NOT have be a boring, grating “icebreaker” type deal.
Robert Lowell Society is inviting new papers on Robert Lowell, his work and his times, to be presented at the 37th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, May 20–23, 2026 in Chicago.
The New American Studies Journal: A Forum (Göttingen University Press) invites submissions for a forthcoming special issue in 2026 that focuses on Chinese American literature. We invite submissions of both academic essays and creative works.
Deliberate Poetics: Erasure, Materiality, and the Politics of the Page
Juxtapositions: Research and Scholarship in Haiku seeks academic essays for a special themed section in Juxta 12: AI and haiku (as well as related poetic forms such as haibun, haiga, senryu, and tanka). Topics may be wide-ranging, including tributes to haijin who have influenced the author’s work by engaging/not engaging AI tools to write in someone else’s style.
Guidelines:
Deadline: July 15, 2026
Call for Papers for a special issue of the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry on “Concrete and Visual Poetries in Britain, Ireland, and Beyond”, edited by Colin Herd and Greg Thomas.
Send 250-300 word abstracts for 5,000-7,000-word articles to ConcreteAndVisualPoetries@gmail.com by 10 January 2026.
Poems Invited for dec 2025 Issue of Taj Mahal Review 48th Issue
WRITING THE MIDWEST: A Symposium of Scholars and Creative Writers
The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML)
May 28-29, 2026. Kellogg Hotel and Convention Center, East Lansing, Michigan
About SSML and The Writing the Midwest Symposium: The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML), founded in 1971, exists to support the study and dissemination of work in Midwestern literature, art, film, and scholarly study.
Call for Submissions – The Soliloquist Winter 2026 Issue
Theme: Beneath the Surface
Winter is a season of stillness—but beneath the frost, roots are reaching, rivers are flowing, and stories are gathering strength.
For our Winter 2026 issue, The Soliloquist invites poets and writers to explore what lies hidden: the unspoken truths, buried memories, secret longings, submerged identities, and quiet rebellions that shape who we are. We seek work that dives below the obvious, the curated, the polished—into the depths where vulnerability, resilience, and revelation intertwine.
It’s time again to submit your creative work to Unearthed, the literary and art journal produced by SUNY College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry. We invite writers, poets, artists, and creatives of all kinds to submit to our upcoming Fall 2025 issue. In this issue, we invite you to reflect on what it means to nourish—to feed, to sustain, to grow, to heal.
ALA Symposium “American Poetry” (March 27-28, 2026)
The recently formed Society for the Study of American Poetry will hold its second conference in partnership with the American Literature Association (ALA) from March 27–28, 2026, at the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Massachusetts. Organized by Dr. Alfred Bendixen (Princeton University), the gathering will feature a keynote address by Dr. Evie Shockley (Rutgers University), Director of Creative Writing and Writers House and Zora Neale Hurston Distinguished Professor of English.
Paper proposals are welcome on any aspect of Hardy’s life, work, and legacy for the Twenty-Seventh International Hardy Conference and Festival (Dorchester, Dorset, UK; July 25th—August 1st 2026). Significant Hardy anniversaries in 2026 include the 150th anniversary of The Hand of Ethelberta, the 140th anniversary of The Mayor of Casterbridge, the 120th anniversary of The Dynasts (Part 2), and the 110th anniversary of Selected Poems. Proposals for papers on any of these anniversary texts are especially welcome.
Papers should be planned for delivery times of a maximum of 20 minutes (approximately 2000 words).
Call for Submissions
Queering Sikh Identity and Desire through Lyrical Uprisings and the Poetics of Becoming
We invite poets from India and its diaspora to submit work that explores queerness in relation to their Sikh identity, sexuality, and the body. You do not need to identify as LGBTQIA+ to contribute—this call is open to those navigating self-discovery through poetry, as well as those who affirm and celebrate their queerness on the page.
Poetry’s Environments (June 9-11 2026)
Poetry shapes and transforms experiences and attitudes toward nature and ecology, just as the natural environment maps the poetic imagination. Poetry roots itself in the environment of the breath, the voice, the hand, and the ear. It roams over pages of books and across digital, computational, performative, archival, monumental, and ephemeral landscapes. Poetry emerges and resides in institutional and ad hoc ecosystems, and it sounds and senses within and without the body of the poet, the audience, the blade of grass.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: LITERATURE TODAY’S DECEMBER 2025 ISSUE
Website: https://literaturetodayjournal.blogspot.com/
Email: editorliteraturetoday@gmail.com
Submission Deadline: December 15, 2025
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