poetry

North, South, East, West

Cardinal points and regions

in contemporary British literature and arts

International conference SEAC / CECILLE

Université de Lille, 19-20 October 2023

Organized by Claire Hélie

Keynote speaker: Prof. Katy Shaw (Northumbria University)

This MLA session for Philadelphia (2024) invites proposals exploring Morris’s relevance for the twenty-first century. Topics could include beauty, design (including Morris’s influences on black artists such as Kehinde Wiley & Althea McNish), architecture, ecology, the environment, sustainability, pollution, socialism, the carceral system, labor, leisure.

Please include a 250-word abstract and short bio no later than Tuesday, 28 February 2023, to jnixon@salemstate.edu

Editor Leah McCormack (University of South Dakota) invites prospective contributions from experienced professors of creative writing from around the world for Creative Strategies: A Multi-Genre Guide to Writing Feedback on Student Manuscripts, which is under contract to be delivered to Routledge by December 2024 as part of the Routledge Studies in Creative Writing book series. 

Founded in Paris in 2007, the Transatlantic Walt Whitman Association (TWWA) invites students, researchers, and Whitman enthusiasts to participate in its 13th annual Whitman Week, consisting of a seminar for students interested in Whitman and Whitman’s poetry, and a symposium bringing together international scholars and graduate students. In 2023, the Whitman Week will take place for the first time in Rome, at Sapienza University of Rome from June 12 to June 17.  

Please view the full Call for Papers on the website: https://whitmanweekrome2023.com/

Seminar Structure

PLEASE NOTE: The deadline for submissions to The Lamp has been extended to Monday, 30 January 2023. 

Call for Submissions! The Lamp is looking for submissions for its 2023 issue (Volume 13)! 

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 Monday, 30 January 2023. Please follow our submission guidelines below. 

Submission Guidelines: 

Dante Alighieri expressed the transcendence of the human condition beyond its limitations through the verb trasumanar in Paradiso 1. It is rare evidence that Alighieri had thought of a kind of "transhuman" change in the early 1300s. In the past years, we witnessed the change raised by the feminist movements, especially the last wave called ''transfeminism'', which pointed out how ''being human'' it is not enough for the subjectivities in order to be recognized by politics. For this reason, the word ''posthuman'' was used to show how monsters can be active participants in our society, being part of us.

This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of Isobel Armstrong’s field-defining Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics (1993; 2nd edition 2019).  This roundtable seeks to mark the occasion by gathering a diverse range of panelists at the 2023 NAVSA conference in Bloomington, IN (Nov. 9-11) to discuss the volume’s lasting impact.  How has Armstrong’s study influenced your own work?  How has it shaped the field as a whole?  What aspects of the book have yet to receive the full recognition they deserve?  What are the gaps or oversights in the first and second editions that need to be acknowledged?

Issue #34 (2023) of RSA Journal: Rivista di Studi Americani, the official journal of the Italian Association for North American Studies (Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord-Americani – AISNA) will feature a special section, edited by Cristina Iuli (Università del Piemonte Orientale) and Pilar Martinez (University of L’Aquila), on Posthumanism andEnvironmental Poetics in American Literature. Scholars from different areas of American literature, culture, and the arts are invited to submit their proposals.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference

Saturday July 15 – Sunday July 16, 2023

University College London*

(*note the exciting new location)

Proposals are invited for presentations at the 26th Annual Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference, to be held Saturday July 15 – Sunday July 16, 2023 at UCL.

Proposals for presentation of critical work about creative writing or for creative presentations (e.g. readings) are equally welcome.

Hugh Kenner: How to Write

Symposium, Université Paris Nanterre, May 5th, 2023

Call for papers

Dear Colleagues,

"Interface" calls for papers for Issue 20: Cultural Contact, Innovation and Tradition

Submission Deadline: January 31, 2023

Publication Date: March 2023

Guest Editors: Matthias Fechner (University of Trier), Chieh Chien (National Taiwan University)

Call for Papers

Interface -Journal of European Languages and Literatures (Home page)

The Charles Olson Society will sponsor a session at the annual American Literature Association Conference, to be held in Boston, May 25-28. We are interested in abstracts that examine the influence of Charles Olson and/or other Black Mountain Poets on poetic practices and their developments up to the present. A variety of poets took up the innovative practices of figures like Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Ed Dorn, Robert Duncan, John Wieners, and others associated with Black Mountain. How have the practices of this fundamentally important school of poetics been extended, transformed, and/or resisted by other poets?

Call For Submissions – Creative Collection - Fears and Phobias – Sunderland Creative Press (University of Sunderland)

Tip-tap on your window, a nightmare comes to taunt you. It starts slowly, softly, building intensity through the dead of night. A thunderbolt of fright strikes through you; you tremble under the covers alone in the dark with creatures of the night, the perpetrators of your restless, anxiety-ridden slumber. Are you brave enough to explore fear a little closer? If you are, then we want to hear about which monsters lurk in your closet, and even the ones that hide under your bed and inside your head. 

Woman Scream Festival aspart of the institutions that collaborate with the initiatives of Action Coalitions for Generation Equality by UN Women, opens its second international call for submission for female poetry. The Woman Scream (Grito de Mujer®) cause celebrates its 13th anniversary of creation since 2011, for this reason, we will be creating a special poetry anthology under the theme “Mother of the Earth”. A compilation of poetry in tribute to farmland women and their rights and an homage to the hundreds of women activists who have raised their voices, suffered abuse or lost their lives standing up for environmental rights.