CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR VOLUME 19 OF
Katherine Mansfield Studies
THE PEER-REVIEWED YEARBOOK OF THE KATHERINE MANSFIELD SOCIETY
PUBLISHED BY EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
on the theme of
PLACING KATHERINE MANSFIELD

Editors
Dr Erika Baldt and Dr Gerri Kimber

Katherine Mansfield once wrote, ‘How hard it is to escape from places […] - you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences - little rags and shreds of your very life’ (CL1, p. 122). Her journeys ‘From the other side of the world / From a little island cradled in the giant sea bosom’ (CP, p. 103) indelibly shaped the form and content of her writing, and the places that she visited and in which she settled throughout Europe exerted a lasting influence on her.
Following on from the 2025 Katherine Mansfield Society conference at the University of Birmingham, this volume of Katherine Mansfield Studies will re-examine the importance of place in Mansfield’s writings, while also asking: how do we ‘place’ Mansfield today? How do we situate her work in current critical conversations and against new scholarly debates? The editors invite contributions to volume 19, to be published in 2027, that explore these questions and the theme of Katherine Mansfield and place.

Subjects might include (but are not limited to):

•Mansfield’s association with specific places (Wellington, London, Fontainebleau, Germany, etc.)
•Mansfield, the city, and metropolitan urban experience
•Mansfield and suburbia
•Mansfield, the countryside, nature, and non-human worlds
•Mansfield, locality, and regional identity
•Mansfield, the Midlands, and D. H. Lawrence
•Mansfield, borders, and boundary-crossing
•Mansfield, home, and belonging
•Mansfield and travel
•Mansfield and impermanent or temporary residences (hotels, guesthouses, etc.)
•Mansfield situated in contemporary literary theory and criticism
Please email submissions of 5000-6000 words, including endnotes, formatted in Word and in MHRA style*, 12 pt, Times New Roman, double line-spaced, with a 100 word abstract + 5 keywords & 50-word biography, to the editorial team at kms@katherinemansfieldsociety.org

PLEASE NOTE: ALL SUBMISSIONS WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE ENTERED FOR OUR ANNUAL ESSAY PRIZE COMPETITION UNLESS AUTHORS INDICATE OTHERWISE.

*An MHRA Style Guide is available on the Katherine Mansfield Society website: http://www.katherinemansfieldsociety.org/yearbook-katherine-mansfield-studies/

Creative Writing
We welcome creative submissions – poetry, short stories, creative essays, on the general theme of Katherine Mansfield. Please send submissions, accompanied by a brief (50 words) biography, to kms@katherinemansfieldsociety.org.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS 31 AUGUST 2026