Essays, Reviews, and All Other Film-Related Content Invited for "Cinematic Codes Review," a New Journal's First Issues: Open

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Anaphora Literary Press

Anaphora Literary Press plans to start its second journal, dedicated to film and television studies, "Cinematic Codes Review." Its "Pennsylvania Literary Journal" (PLJ) has been in print since 2009, and it is starting to be too thick for its standard $10 cover price. By splitting it into two journals, one for literature and the second for film, both should become more focused. The first couple of issues are particularly important, and hopefully writers will submit essays, film reviews, or any other film related content to fill the pages with content that will be beneficial to film scholars, practitioners and knowledgeable fans. Essays can be about absurdist independent films or about the latest blockbuster. They can come from graduate students, established professors or filmmakers. Like PLJ, "Cinematic" will be a general journal that will always be welcome to contributions in all fields of film studies. Film or television reviews can be as short 200 words, or as long as 8,000 words. Essays can be anywhere from 4,000 to 10,000 words in length. You can also send film-related fiction, poetry, illustrations, photographs, or other creative projects. You can use any citation style, but use footnotes as opposed to endnotes. Screenshots from the films you are discussing are invited. If you use images from the web, check that they are in the public domain.

PLJ has published works by and interviews with New York Times bestselling writers like Larry Niven and Geraldine Brooks. Dr. R. Joseph Rodríguez received the 2015 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship's Article Award for his article, "There Are Many Rooms" which appeared in Volume VI, Issue 1 of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal (El Paso Inc). Hopefully, "Cinematic" will see similar successes with the help of your submissions.

Email your submission or query to director@anaphoraliterary.com, to the attention of Director and Editor-in-Chief, Anna Faktorovich, PhD. Include a biographical paragraph for all genres, and also an abstract for critical essays. The first issue of "Cinematic" will probably come out in May 2016 and the second one in August 2016. Work sent before these deadlines will receive closer consideration. You can view the content of previous PLJ issues by using LookInside on Amazon, or by emailing a request for sample links to pdf issues.