Watchung Review invites scholarly papers on the theme of migrations and identity. This is a timely topic, both in academic work and in the media, and one which calls on the rich work of postcoloniality, movement and migration in literature, rhetoric, and interdisciplinary studies on migration and identity.  We encourage submissions which approach these deeply political issues head on, and also papers which interpret the theme more broadly by investigating issues of migration arising in a variety of periods, intellectual spaces and through a range of critical and theoretical lenses.

Topics of interest may include but are not limited to:

• Historical or Temporal Migrations
• Movement across Borders
• Community and Identity
• Homelessness
• Motherlands
• Hybridity
• Displaced Writers
• Renaissance and Early Modern Concepts of Travel
• Global Immigration
• Historiography of Migration
• Migrational Literature
• Oral Migration
• Texts in Translation
• Spatial and Temporal Structures of Texts
• Digital Migration
• Fluidity of Digital Space
• Gamer Migration
• Ecomigration
• Pedagogical Migrations
• Classroom Spaces
• Immigration and Curriculum
• Language Migration

Creative submissions of high-quality prose and poetry that imaginatively address the theme will also be accepted.  Submissions cannot be previously published. 

Scholarly articles should be between 3000-6000 words, include an abstract of 300 words and in MLA format.  Please use endnotes not footnotes. 

Book Reviews should not exceed 2500 words.

Poems should not exceed five pages.  You may submit up to three poems at a time.

Short Stories should be between 2500-5000 words.

Accepted file types:   doc, docx, rtf, txt, html

Deadline:  31st July 2016

Please send inquiries and submissions to watchungreview@gmail.com