Call for Submissions

As part of my academic work, I have been working with a fantastic editorial team to prepare a special issue of the New American Studies Journal. As part of that endeavor, we get to do something I rarely see: INVITE CREATIVE WORK into the academic fold.

So, here it is—a VERY niche Call for Submissions. Historical fiction writers, upmarket fiction, poets, artists—have at it! :)

Call for Creative Submissions:

“Transatlantic Women at Work: Service in the Long Nineteenth Century”

For a special issue of New American Studies Journal, the Intercontinental Cross-Currents Network solicits creative considerations of women in wide-ranging service roles in the transatlantic world during the long nineteenth century.

We are interested in original short fiction (5000-word max), poetry, photography, artwork, audio works, or videography that engages with any of following broad topics: 

·       Women’s wartime service and aid to the resulting populations displaced by wars 

·       Various social societies and their important role in women’s service 

·       Life writing 

·       Women and race in service 

·       Women, wealth, and class as they pertains to service or philanthropy

·       Service and shared space across class, national, gendered, or racial boundaries 

·       Women’s service as propaganda 

·       Notions of service in women’s, sexuality, or gender studies 

·       Women’s service in historiography and narratives of women’s service 

·       Archives of women’s service 

·       Creative portrayals of women’s unacknowledged or unidentified service 

Visual Art Guidelines: JPEG format and 300 dpi or higher. Up to 3 images may be submitted.

Selected works will be included in a multimodal and online special issue of the New American Studies Journal alongside a collection of academic essays on this expansive topic.

Please send your submission and a brief CV to Khristeena Lute at khristeenalute@gmail.com by March 30, 2023.

Issue Editors: 

Laura-Isabella Heitz, MLU Halle-Wittenberg 

Khristeena Lute, SUNY Adirondack  

Julia Nitz, MLU Halle-Wittenberg  

Sandra H. Petrulionis, Penn State University, Altoona 

Esther Wetzel, MLU Halle-Wittenberg 

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