Calls for Papers
Call for Papers: Research and Teaching Cluster. Editors: Stephen Voss (VIctoria) and Deanna Reder (Simon Fraser). "Reconciliation in Action":
It has now been over a decade since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission wrapped up. How have English (or cognate) departments across Canada responded to the TRC’s Calls to Action? What concrete actions have been taken to advance decolonization and Indigenization? Has your department made curricular changes to transform your programs? Has your department changed its hiring practices? Where are the resistance points? Are there stall tactics you have seen employed? What emotional resiliencies are needed to do this work? Are there any anti-racist initiatives that you or your colleagues have undertaken? Does your department or university have ongoing relationships with local Indigenous nations and if so, how is that reflected? If your department or administration has been unwilling, what are the strategies you personally have undertaken? Even if we are teaching more Indigenous works than we were a decade ago, have we seriously thought about what’s at stake in deciding who teaches those works and how?
This cluster in ESC invites contributions that address the challenges and successes English departments have had in the last decade. What are the success stories? Where have there been failures? What resistance has been encountered and how (or has) it been overcome? What work remains to be done? What models can we adapt and adopt, and how can we share strategies for doing better?
Please direct questions and inquiries to the co-editors. 200-word abstracts due to Deanna Reder and Stephen Ross by 30 June 2026.
Pawaatamihk Journal of Métis Thinkers is an open-access journal that publishes twice per year, showcasing Métis scholars and voices across disciplines. We are inspired by the ways that Métis thinkers are building knowledge in many different spaces—within and outside of academia—and dream that this journal will become a nourishing home for Métis thought. Knowledge shared through scholarly papers, visual art, poetry, book reviews, and community stories is included in each edition, and we put intentional care toward making space for 2SLGBTQ+ and gender diverse thinkers, scholars at different career stages, and community members not affiliated with academic institutions. We welcome submissions from all professions and disciplines that in some way speak to the priorities, experiences, histories, and dreams of Métis peoples. For more information, please follow this link.
CFP Creative Writing: Contemporary Indigenous Horror As a companion to analysis in Contemporary Indigenous Horror (contracted with University Press of Mississippi), we are looking for creative pieces to be published within this academic volume. To acknowledge the various ways in which Indigenous scholarship may engage in an ongoing conversation with other forms of expression and writing, we welcome both traditional as well as more exploratory approaches to fiction, poetry, flash, and related hybrid, experimental intertexts that rupture settler-colonial categorizations of genre. Word/line count should be as follows:
Flash Fiction: about 500-1000 words
Short Stories: about 1000-4000 words
Poetry: maximum of about 110 lines
Experimental, hybrid words: some flexibility
Please send submissions and a 100 word bio to editors Naomi Simone Borwein (nborwein@uwo.ca) and Krista Collier-Jarvis (Krista.Collier-Jarvis@msvu.ca) by July 14th, 2026.The deadline for submissions is July 14th, 2026. This issue is co-edited by Dr. Naomi Simone Borwein and Dr. Krista Collier-Jarvis.
La Palabra Journal Issue 54: Indigenous Literatures. Please follow this link for a full description: https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/la_palabra/announcement/view/593
We are opening a call for papers for issue 54, a special dossier on Indigenous literatures, which will include, among others, the following subtopics:
Indigenous literary criticism and new Indigenous literary genres.
Relationships between writing and orality.
Literacies of Land and place.
Challenges of translation and editing.
Myths, legends, and archaic texts.
Contemporary poetry, narrative, and essays.
Transcending political, geographical, and disciplinary borders through interdisciplinary texts.
Interrogating the literary imagination about Indigenous people in non-Indigenous literatures.
We will accept articles between January 1 and August 31, 2026. They may be written in Spanish, English, or Portuguese. The length should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words. Authors must follow all the submission guidelines set out on the journal's website: https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/la_palabra/about/submissions
We can answer any questions you may have by email: lapalabra@uptc.edu.co
