Short Fiction in Theory & Practice (Journal)

ISSN 20430701 , ONLINE ISSN 2043071X

Short Fiction in Theory & Practice provides an international forum for all those writing, reading, translating or publishing the short story, in all its diversity – including flash fiction, the novella, cycles, sequences, anthologies and single-author collections; hypertext, popular fiction (e.g. science fiction, horror), the prose poem, the non-fiction story and other hybrid genres. It looks at the short story from the practitioner’s viewpoint; we are concerned with the ongoing process and philosophy of composition rather than the ‘postevent’ dissection of literary texts.

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Category: Cultural Studies


Principal Editor

Ailsa Cox
Edge Hill University
coxa@edgehill.ac.uk

Associate Editors

Aleix Tura Vecino
University of Glasgow, UK
aleix.turavecino@glasgow.ac.uk

Andrea Ashworth
Edge Hill University, UK
ashworta@edgehill.ac.uk

Notes for Contributors Download


Aims & Scope

Short Fiction in Theory & Practice is an interdisciplinary journal celebrating the current resurgence in short-story writing and research. Looking at short fiction from a practice-based perspective, it explores the poetics of short-story writing, adaptation, translation and the place of the short story in global culture.

All submissions are peer-reviewed. Contributions are welcome from individuals who do not consider themselves academics, and may take the form of personal commentaries, reflections, interviews and reviews, as well as conventional essays. We are pleased to consider proposals from those publishing or promoting the short story, as well as from short-story writers.

Submissions

To submit an article, please follow the 'Submit' button on the left of this page.
 
Download the Notes for Contributors above for information on format and style of submissions. If you need this document in a more accessible format, please contact info@intellectbooks.com. Find more information on Intellect's Accessibility page.
 
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All articles submitted should be original work and must not be under consideration by other publications.
 
Journal contributors will receive a free PDF copy of their final work upon publication. Print copies of the journal may also be purchased by contributors at half price.

Peer Review Policy

All articles undergo initial editorial screening either by the journal's Editorial Team and/or incumbent Guest Editors. Articles then undergo a rigorous anonymous peer review by two referees, following the guidance in Intellect's 'Peer review instructions'. Based on this feedback, the Editors will communicate a decision and revision suggestions to authors. To appeal an editorial decision, please contact the main Editor who will consider your case.

Ethical Guidelines

The journal follows the principles set out by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Read our Ethical Guidelines for more on the journal's standards.

Principal Editor

Ailsa Cox
Edge Hill University
coxa@edgehill.ac.uk

Associate Editors

Aleix Tura Vecino
University of Glasgow, UK
aleix.turavecino@glasgow.ac.uk

Andrea Ashworth
Edge Hill University, UK
ashworta@edgehill.ac.uk

Principal Editor

Ailsa Cox
Edge Hill University
coxa@edgehill.ac.uk

Associate Editors

Aleix Tura Vecino
University of Glasgow, UK
aleix.turavecino@glasgow.ac.uk

Andrea Ashworth
Edge Hill University, UK
ashworta@edgehill.ac.uk

Principal Editor

Ailsa Cox
Edge Hill University
coxa@edgehill.ac.uk

Associate Editors

Aleix Tura Vecino
University of Glasgow, UK
aleix.turavecino@glasgow.ac.uk

Andrea Ashworth
Edge Hill University, UK
ashworta@edgehill.ac.uk

CFP: ‘Materiality in the Short Fiction of Alice Munro’ Download

Submission deadline: 1 September 2024



General Call for Papers 

Contributions are invited for Short Fiction in Theory and Practice, a peer-reviewed journal looking at the short story from a practice-based perspective. Once overlooked by literary critics, and sometimes dismissed as a practice run for the novel, the short story is finally receiving due attention as a major art form, and one which is especially suited to the digital age. Short Fiction responds to this resurgence, providing an international forum for the growing number of writers who integrate critical research with their own creative practice.

While there are a number of literary magazines publishing short fiction, there are fewer opportunities to discuss its writing and transmission. We are seeking articles which explore the poetics of short-story writing (its reading, adaptation and translation) and the place of the short story in global culture. While celebrating the uniqueness of short-story writing, we will also explore its diversity. We intend to cross generic and disciplinary boundaries, welcoming contributions which explore the connections between short fiction and other means of expression.

Article submissions

Articles should be between 4000 and 8000 words in length. Topics may include (but are not limited to):

  • Short-story composition, writerly practice and the poetics of short-story writing
  • Transmission and publishing contexts (e.g. the anthology; online publication; the short story and radio; short-story prizes; the role of the editor)
  • Writing flash fiction, the novella, sequences, cycles and hybrid forms
  • Sub-genres, e.g. the science-fiction short story, the supernatural, crime fiction
  • Multimedia and hypertext; short stories online
  • Autobiographical and non-fiction short stories
  • Oral storytelling
  • Short-story writing and identity, e.g. race, class, gender, nationality
  • Readings of, and responses to, texts by contemporary short story authors
  • Translation and adaptation
  • The short story and other media (e.g. photography, music)
  • Political, cultural, social contexts (e.g. the short story as samizdat, postcolonialism and short-story writing)

The editors will also consider 

  • Original creative work if it embodies or incorporates a substantial element of the writer’s poetics
  • Interviews with writers
  • Translations of short fiction not previously published in English

Please contact the editor in the first instance, with proposals for translations, interviews or creative work.

All articles submitted should be original work and must not be under consideration by other publications.

Journal contributors will receive a free PDF copy of their final work upon publication. Print copies of the journal may also be purchased by contributors at half price.

Special Issue Call for Papers

‘Materiality in the Short Fiction of Alice Munro’

Guest edited by Corinne Bigot, University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, and Christine Lorre, Sorbonne Nouvelle University

‘People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing and unfathomable—deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.’

(Munro, Lives of Girls and Women, 1971)

Throughout her fourteen collections of short stories, Alice Munro has shown a clear interest in how her characters’ inner life and perception of the world are defined by the material things most immediate to them, as exemplified in the epigraph, a well-known quotation from Lives of Girls and Women. Materiality is an integral dimension of culture (Tilley et al., 2006), and in Munro’s work, it is central to an understanding of social, gendered and individual existence, as the two are interconnected. Material things nurture the imagination, where they stick and develop as significant, unfathomable images. They embody the mystery of life, being paradoxically, like landscape, both “touchable and mysterious” (Munro, 1974). They physically anchor characters in the here and now, but they also speak to mind and spirit. They can embody connections as well as disconnections. Whether they are kept or discarded, over time, they haunt the protagonist and lead on to chains of memories, repeatedly re-membered, and with variations. They may become symbols of something larger than themselves, but more often than not they remain images stored up in memory, as so many active links to the past that transform the perception of the present. Objects act as signs that relate to the signified – and often as an index of atmosphere – but also, beyond that, to coded concepts, in a dual dynamic that binds surface and depth, that fuses realism and myth.

The international, peer-reviewed journal, Short Fiction in Theory and Practice (Intellect Books) is inviting original submissions for a special issue to be published in Spring 2025, that will explore material culture in Alice Munro’s work. We welcome critical articles, short fiction, and reflections on practice that investigate any aspect of the question of materiality in Munro’s short fiction.

Suggested topics might include, but are not limited to:

  • Material domains: architecture, home furnishing, technology, food, clothing, style.
  • Everyday materiality: houses and their contents, the materiality of domesticity.
  • Materiality and social class: class markers, social distinction, social belonging
  • The lifecycle of things: things made, exchanged, consumed.
  • Things and their meanings: performance, transformation, obsolescence.
  • Things and social identity: politics and poetics of displaying, representing, conserving material forms.
  • Material forms and the (gendered) body: embodied subjects, body care, role of the senses, phenomenology.
  • Material forms and sociality: subjectivities, intimacies, social and familial relations, worldviews.
  • Materiality and remembrance: signs of time passing, change, transformation, evolving interpretation.
  • Materiality and circulation: exchange and consumption, technology.
  • Materiality and discards: remains, junk, waste.
  • Archeological or ethnographic situations: materiality in alien settings.
  • Material memory: cultural memory, monuments and memorials.

Articles should be 4,000–8,000 words long and must not exceed 8,000 words including notes, references, contributor biography, keywords and abstract. All submissions are peer-reviewed. Contributions should be submitted electronically through the journal webpage by clicking the submissions tab.

For style guide and submission details please see https://www.intellectbooks.com/short-fiction-in-theory-practice.

For further enquiries please contact the editor, Professor Ailsa Cox, coxa@edgehill.ac.uk.

The deadline for submissions is 1 September 2024.

Principal Editor

Ailsa Cox
Edge Hill University
coxa@edgehill.ac.uk

Associate Editors

Aleix Tura Vecino
University of Glasgow, UK
aleix.turavecino@glasgow.ac.uk

Andrea Ashworth
Edge Hill University, UK
ashworta@edgehill.ac.uk

Editorial Board

Jochen Achilles
University of Wuerzberg, Germany

Isabel Alves
University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal

Timothy Baker
University of Aberdeen, UK

Julie Bates
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Alexander Beaumont
York St John University, UK

Erin Bell
University of Detroit Mercy, US

Alex Benson
Bard College, US

Ina Bergmann
University of Würzburg, Germany

José Bértolo
NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal

Corinne Bigot
Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle, France

Carmen Birkle
Philipps University, Germany

Naomi Booth
Durham University, UK

Nick Bradley
Cambridge University, UK

Isabelle Brasme
University of Nimes, France

Kym Brindle
Edge Hill University, UK

Rita Bueno Maia
Catholic University of Portugal, Portugal

Stephen Burn
University of Glasgow, UK

Ashley Chantler
University of Chester, UK

Kritika Chettri
University of North Bengal, India

Philip Coleman
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Billy Cowan
Edge Hill University, UK

Alexander Creighton
Harvard University, US

Gill Davies
Independent Scholar, UK

Aaron Deveson
National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

Elke D’hoker
KU Leuven, Belgium

Dan Disney
Sogang University, Korea

José Duarte
University of Lisbon, Portugal

Lucy Dawes Durneen
Cambridge University, UK

Karen D’Souza
Edge Hill University, UK

Melanie Ebdon
Staffordshire University, UK

Leena Eilitta
Helsinki University, Finland

Lucy Evans
University of Leicester, UK

Paul Fagan
Maynooth University, Ireland

Ana Raquel Fernandes
University of Lisbon, Portugal

Nicholas Foxton
Kingston University, UK

Sean Gregory
Leeds Arts University, UK

Gaïd Girard
Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France

Andy Hedgecock
Independent Scholar, UK

Ursula Hurley
Salford University, UK

Bettina Jansen
Independent Scholar, Germany

Stefano Jossa
Royal Holloway University of London, UK

Helena Kadmos
The University Of Notre Dame Australia

Barbara Korte
University of Freiburg, Germany

Naomi Kruger
University of Central Lancashire, UK

Laurie Kruk
Nipissing University, Canada

Zoe Lambert
Lancaster University

Laura Lojo-Rodriguez
University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Micaela Maftei
Independent Scholar, Canada

Paul March-Russell
Independent Scholar, UK

Saskia McCracken
Independent Scholar, UK

Moy McCrory
University of Derby

Andy McInnes
Edge Hill University, UK

Adnan Mahmutovic
Stockholm University, Sweden

David Malcolm
SWPS University, Poland

Victoria Margree
University of Brighton, UK

Cecilia Maria Beecher Martins
University of Lisbon, Portugal

Bénédicte Meillon
University of Perpignan, France

Laurent Mellet
Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France

Ana Cristina Mendes
University of Lisbon, Portugal

Sylvia Mieszkowski
University of Vienna, Austria

Judith Misrahi-Barak
Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France

Jennifer Murray
University of Franche-Comté, France

Pablo Muslera
University of South West Australia, Australia

Ira Nadel
University of British Columbia, Canada

Derek Neale
The Open University, UK

Helen Newall
Edge Hill University, UK

Bran Nicol
University of Surrey, UK

Chiara Nifosi
University of Chicago, USA

Mohamad Rashidi Mohd Pakri
USM, Malaysia

Gerald Preher
University of Artois, France

Joanne Reardon
The Open University, UK

Christine Reynier
Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France

Eleanora Rao
Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy

Sue Roe
Independent Scholar, UK

C. D. Rose
Independent Scholar, UK

Michelle Ryan-Sautour
University of Angers, France

Suzanne Scafe
London South Bank University, UK

Barbara Schaff
University of Göttingen, Germany

Oliver Scheiding
University of Mainz, Germany

Philip Schweighhauser
University of Basle, Switzerland

Sarah Schofield
Edge Hill University, UK

Laura Tansley
University of Glasgow, UK

Jonathan Taylor
University of Leicester, UK

Tom Ue
Dalhousie University, Canada

Dagmar Vandebosch
KU Leuven, Belgium

Minna Vuohelainen
City University London, UK

Sarah Whitehead
Kingston University, UK

Emma Young
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Principal Editor

Ailsa Cox
Edge Hill University
coxa@edgehill.ac.uk

Associate Editors

Aleix Tura Vecino
University of Glasgow, UK
aleix.turavecino@glasgow.ac.uk

Andrea Ashworth
Edge Hill University, UK
ashworta@edgehill.ac.uk

 
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Principal Editor

Ailsa Cox
Edge Hill University
coxa@edgehill.ac.uk

Associate Editors

Aleix Tura Vecino
University of Glasgow, UK
aleix.turavecino@glasgow.ac.uk

Andrea Ashworth
Edge Hill University, UK
ashworta@edgehill.ac.uk

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