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