Anaphora's two journals, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, and Cinematic Codes Review, are seeking submissions of all types of essays, reviews, and creative works.

Pennsylvania Literary Journal (ISSN#: 2151-3066) is a printed journal that publishes critical essays, book-reviews, short stories, interviews, photographs, art, poetry, and various other genres. Issues are on sale in print-form through Amazon and other distributors. PLJ is also available through the EBSCO Academic Complete and ProQuest databases in full-text. It is listed in the MLA International Bibliography, the MLA Directory of Periodicals, Genamics JournalSeek, and Duotrope’s Digest.

General Call: PLJ is published three times per year. Most issues are generalist, even if there is a cluster in any given issue of similar interviews or essays. Special issues can be used to present a set of conference papers, so feel free to apply on behalf of a conference that you are in charge of, if you think the attending writers might be interested in seeing their revised conference papers published. There is an open deadline and an open essay-length for general submissions. Free books can be requested from major academic publishers for you for your review (1,200-1,600 words); or you can find these at the library or the like and submit the finished book reviews for consideration. Critical essays can be written in any style, including MLA and Chicago.

Cinematic Codes Review: CCR strives to 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 is a general journal that always welcomes 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 (that you made yourself with your computer) are invited. You can view the content of previous CCR issues by using the LookInside feature on Amazon, or by emailing a request for pdf/epub review copies.

Please submit work to Editor-in-Chief, Anna Faktorovich (director@anaphoraliterary.com). Include the author’s biography for all submissions, and an abstract for essays.