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Tag Archives: CFP
CFP: Reading the Fantastic: Tales Beyond Borders conference, University of Leeds, 23rd-25th April, 2015
Also approaching the deadline of 31 January 2015, this conference and workshop at the University of Leeds looks fantastic (if I can say that), and offers much to postgraduates as well as established scholars–and invites contributions from outside academia. We … Continue reading
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Tagged art, CFP, Fairy tales, Fantasy, Folklore, Genre, music, myth, the fantastic, workshop
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CFP: Wonderlands: Reading/Writing/Telling Fairy Tales and Fantasy, 23 May 2015, University of Chichester
Apologies for the late posting of this CFP for the postgraduate symposium at the University of Chichester–the deadline is 31 January 2015, so anyone interested (and I can’t see why they wouldn’t be!) will have to hurry. Timed to coincide … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice in Wonderland, CFP, Children's literature, dystopia, Fairy tales, Fantasy, utopianism, wonder lands, YA Fiction
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CFP: Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2015, 8 June 2015, University of Liverpool
An exciting conference for postgraduates to present their research at the University of Liverpool, well-known as a pioneering centre for research into science fiction: Returning for its fifth consecutive year, CRSF is a one day postgraduate conference designed to promote … Continue reading
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Tagged CFP, Fantasy, horror, science fiction, speculative fiction, YA Fiction
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CFP for A Second New Edited Collection (Memory in Post-Apocalyptic and Dystopian Tales)
Heather Urbanski is seeking articles for a collection on post-apocalyptic and dystopian narratives–a mode that has come into the forefront recently in YA fiction, where it has also encountered paranormal romance. Generously, Urbanski is seeking work from ‘under-represented groups’ and … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalypse, CFP, dystopia, Film, graphic novels, memory, popular culture, TV, video games
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CFP: Victorian Authenticity & Artifice, 13-15 July 2015, Senate House, London
A conference by the Victorian Popular Literature Association. There is certainly room for work on fiction of the undead and other allied and suitably Gothic themes in popular literature. The organisers invite a broad, imaginative and interdisciplinary interpretation of the … Continue reading
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Tagged CFP, Gothic, popular fiction, Victorian Gothic
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Call for Submissions — Spectral Visions: Grim Fairy Tales
Spectral Visions Press are calling for literary work in the mode of the Gothic fairy tale for their anthology, Spectral Visions: Grim Fairy Tales. I may have forgotten to post this before, but there is still time to submit short … Continue reading
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Tagged CFP, creative writing, Fairy tales, Gothic, poetry
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CFP: Monstrum – the peer-reviewed scholarly journal of monsters and all things monstrous
I’m very honoured to have been appointed to the Editorial Board of Monstrum, a new and exciting journal for the study of monsters and the monstrous from the Spectral Visions Press. Contributions are being sought for the inaugural issue, which … Continue reading
CFP: Utopias, Realities, Heritages. Ethnographies for the 21st century, SIEF2015 12th Congress Zagreb, Croatia 21-25 June 2015
This looks like a fabulous conference, hosted by the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore. There are opportunities to share research on the fairy tale, particularly their utopian content (and including, I would think, contemporary adaptations).
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Tagged adaptation, CFP, Fairy tales, Folklore, utopianism
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OGOM Company of Wolves CFP – Beyond excited to announce this!
Conference, University of Hertfordshire, Sept 3rd-5th 2015: Call for Papers and Panels OGOM: ‘The Company of Wolves’: Sociality, Animality, and Subjectivity in Literary and Cultural Narratives—Werewolves, Shapeshifters, and Feral Humans Wolves have long been the archetypal enemy of human company, … Continue reading
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CFP: Brave New Worlds: The Dystopia in Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Newcastle University, 29 April 2015
Not strictly Gothic, but there’s space to contribute something to this conference, I think: Brave New Worlds: The Dystopia in Modern and Contemporary Fiction The modes of the Gothic and the dystopian often interact, especially in recent YA fiction, where, … Continue reading
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Tagged body, CFP, dystopia, gender, Genre, Gothic, politics, posthumanism, SF
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