Calls For Manuscripts
Below is a current listing of calls for manuscripts that have been sent to us. If you would like to post a call here, please send relevant information to the ASLE Managing Director. Deadlines are in bold.
Those interested in journal and book publication should also consult the following pages:
List of Ecocritical Journals
List of Ecocritical Presses
Book-Publishing Wisdom (from C. L. Rawlins)
August 1, 2008. Artifacts and Illuminations: Critical Essays on Loren Eiseley.
This is a proposed collection of scholarly essays to be edited by Tom Lynch (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) and Susan Maher (University of Nebraska, Omaha). We are soliciting abstracts of articles that apply critical approaches and interdisciplinary approaches to an examination of the prose and poetry of Loren Eiseley. In particular, we seek essays that: apply contemporary critical approaches, including ecocriticism and ecopoetics, to a close reading of Eiseley’s texts; examine the interdisciplinary relationship between science and artistic expression in Eiseley’s writing; contextualize Eiseley’s work within mid-20th century American culture, including the relationship of his writing to the cold war, the space race, environmentalism, the 1960s counterculture, and cultural debates over evolution; position Eiseley within literary history, assessing influences on his work by such figures as Thoreau, Auden, Robinson Jeffers, and Howard Nemerov, as well as Eiseley’s own influence on later writers such as Edward Hoagland and Annie Dillard; and assess Eiseley’s international influence and significance. We have strong interest in this project from the University of Nebraska Press, but do not yet have a contract. Submit abstracts of not more than 500 words and a short vita to: Susan Maher (smaher@mail.unomaha.edu) and Tom Lynch (tlynch2@unomaha.edu). Please email your submission both as a Microsoft Word attachment and within the body of your email. (If using Windows Vista, convert from .docx to .doc format.)
August 1, 2008. Imagination & Place: An Anthology.
The Imagination & Place Press seeks poetry, fiction, essays, and images for the first book in a new series to be published annually. In keeping with the mission of the press to publish works of literature which are grounded in place and soar with imagination, we encourage writers and artists to think, feel, dream, and imagine place in complex and innovative ways. Submit no more than five poems, fiction and essays of no more than 7000 words, and images in JPG format to laciandppress [at] sunflower [dot] com. Include a cover letter with a brief biography. If submitting hard copy manuscripts or images, mail to Imagination & Place Press, Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence, KS 66044; enclose a cover letter with a brief biography and a SASE for reply; no more than ten images if mailed. No manuscripts or images will be returned without proper postage and packaging materials. No previously published works are acceptable; we will take simultaneous submissions with the clear understanding that if the work is accepted elsewhere, we will be notified immediately. Visit www.imaginationandplace.org for more information.
August 31, 2008. American Literature after the “American Century”
We are seeking proposals for a collection of critical essays exploring American Literature after the “American Century.” With this volume, we hope to begin a critical discussion of how American literature has responded to the highly charged social and political climate during the early years of the 21st century. What characterizes literary preoccupations after the 20th century, the so-called “American Century?” How has American fiction incorporated or resisted social, cultural, environmental, economic and political events in the 21st century? How are American writers responding to nationalism and American identity? What is the mood of American literature in the face of the nation's perceived decline in economic and cultural influence around the globe? What themes seem to be preoccupying American literature at this time?
We are especially seeking papers that consider ethnicity, gender, power, and class in 21st century literature.
Please send abstracts of 250-500 words by August 31 to Gioia.Woods@nau.edu and Lance.Rubin@arapahoe.edu
December 15, 2008. EARTH'S BODY: AN ECOPOETRY ANTHOLOGY
Coeditors Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street solicit submissions for an international anthology of ecopoetry. We are looking for a wide and varied array of submissions. Our working definition of "ecopoetry" is flexible; it includes not only what might be called nature poetry, and not only poetry that focuses on environmental issues, but also experimental poetry--poetry that explores language in its relations with the other-than-human. We welcome work by emerging as well as established poets. We welcome serious poems, playful poems, poems in open or traditional forms. Depending on limitations of space, we will consider not only short poems but also poems of several pages. The anthology will include only living poets or poets who were alive as of July 2007, and will include only poems either written in English or already translated into English; for poems not written in English, both the original and the translation must be submitted, and if accepted, both will be published. We will consider work that has been previously published, but the poet (and/or translator) MUST control rights to the work.
Please send up to six poems to BOTH Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street by December 15, 2008. You may send them as email text or by US mail. If they come as email text, make sure the spacing and lineation travel accurately. WE WILL NOT OPEN ATTACHMENTS. Please also include a short bio and a cover letter, and an SASE for our reply.
Ann Fisher-Wirth
English Department
Bondurant C-135
University of Mississippi
University, MS 38677
afwirth [at] olemiss [dot] edu
Laura-Gray Street
English Department
Randolph College
2500 Rivermont Avenue
Lynchburg, VA 24503
lstreet [at] randolphcollege [dot] edu
December 15, 2008. Reading Places: Bioregional Literary Criticism, editors Tom Lynch, Cheryll Glotfelty, and Karla Armbruster. We invite proposals for a collection of original, previously unpublished essays in bioregional literary criticism. We prefer essays (4,500-6,000 words) that are not only theoretically rigorous, but are also written in an accessible and lively enough manner to be usable in both graduate and undergraduate classrooms as well as available to the interested lay reader.
We seek essays that
1) theorize bioregional literary criticism;
2) enact close bioregional readings of texts, both re-readings of familiar texts and recognition of new or neglected works whose importance becomes apparent through a bioregional lens;
3) examine successful bioregional literary praxis, such as community-based writing projects and place-based publishing ventures; and
4) assess the relationships between bioregionalism and issues of post-colonialism, globalization, and environmental justice. We welcome a broad representation of different bioregions, in both North America and internationally.
We currently have a working relationship with the University of Georgia Press, and we plan to seek a contract after we have vetted proposals. We estimate that essays will be due in October 2009.
Send your proposal as an e-mail attachment to all three of us: Tom Lynch (tlynch2@unl.edu), Cheryll Glotfelty (glotfelt@unr.edu), and Karla Armbruster (armbruka@webster.edu). The proposal should include your essay title, an abstract (250-500 words), and a brief biographical sketch. E-mail your proposal both as a Microsoft Word attachment and within the body of your e-mail. (If using Word 2007, please convert from .docx to .doc format.)
Ongoing. The Journal of Ecocriticism is an electronic review that focuses on research which investigates the links between nature, society and literature. It invites manuscripts that address any issue of interest to ecocritics, and especially encourages new scholars in the field to submit work to the journal. Proposals for special issues are also encouraged. Please visit http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/joe for more details.
Ongoing. Green Theory & Praxis: The Journal of Ecopedagogy, a peer-reviewed, open-source academic journal, is proud to announce both a general Call for Papers for its upcoming June and December issues and its recent move from California State University, Fresno to a new home as the flagship journal of the Ecopedagogy Association International. Green Theory & Praxis represents a scholarly effort to present research papers and essays at the transformative nexus of ecological politics and culture, social structures, sustainability education and ecocriticism. The editorial board takes the position that many human societies and their attendant political economy and cultural norms depart strikingly from what is needed to maintain ecological harmony and planetary/ species flourishing. We offer a forum for careful study of the theoretical and rhetorical positions, political and economic adjustments, behavioral and institutional alterations, pedagogical and cultural mobilizations, and spiritual emergences that will or should emerge in response to increasing ecological damage of both a physical and psychic nature. We seek critical analysis of the root causes of various ecological crises and to link theory to concrete prospects for social change through pedagogy broadly conceived. We anticipate transdisciplinary papers, and invite scholars and activists from throughout the world to submit manuscripts for peer review. Please visit http://greentheoryandpraxis.ecopedagogy.org/index.php/journal to submit your work online and receive more information.
The book review editors at Green Theory and Praxis are also looking for reviewers in various areas of Green Studies. If you would like to join our reviewers list, please send a cover letter and vita to the editor of the appropriate area below:
Ecocriticism - Richard Pickard - rpickard@uvic.ca
Ecoliteracy and Environmental Education- Jeri Pollock - jeri.pollock@canteiros.org
Ecopolitics and radical political theory - Sean Parson - sparson@uoregon.edu
Environmental communication - Elizabeth Dickinson - edickins@unm.edu
Environmental Film - Salma Monani - mona0046@umn.edu
Environmental-political economy - Samuel Fassbinder – cassiodorus.senator@gmail.com