CFP The Fantasy Worlds of George MacDonald (Special Issue British Fantasy Society Journal) (8/31/2024)

The Fantasy Worlds of George MacDonald

deadline for submissions:
August 31, 2024

full name / name of organization:
Dr Kevan Manwaring/British Fantasy Society

contact email:
kmanwaring@aub.ac.uk

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/04/23/the-fantasy-worlds-of-george-macdonald

British Fantasy Society Journal – Call for Submissions for Winter Issue 2024

Deadline: 31st August 2024

The Fantasy Worlds of George MacDonald

The Scottish writer George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a hugely prolific author of fiction, poetry, essays, and sermons. His works include the influential Fantasy novels, Phantastes: a Faerie Romance (1858), and Lilith (1895), as well as the much-loved children’s classics, At the Back of the North Wind (1871), The Princess and the Goblin (1872), and The Princess and Curdie (1883). Admired by contemporaries such as John Ruskin and Lewis Carroll, MacDonald inspired later generations of Fantasy, in particular, CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien. In December 2024 we celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth. This special issue will explore the Fantasy writing of Macdonald, thematic connections with other writers, and his legacy.

The editor is inviting non-fiction contributions exploring MacDonald’s oeuvre, primarily his works of Fantasy. As well as critical re-examinations of the titles listed above, contributions could explore the following or similar areas:

· Christian Mysticism in Fantasy.

· Death and afterlife – eschatological and posthumous Fantasy.

· The use of Fairy Tales in the works of George MacDonald.

· Representations of the supernatural feminine.

· Celticity and ecolectical Fantasy.

· Macdonald and his connection to the writings of Arthur Machen, Charles Williams, and Fiona MacLeod.

· Adaptations and creative conversations with his work and life.

· Creative criticism and rebellious research about George MacDonald.

Also invited are scholarly reviews of contemporary (or classic) Fantasy in novels, TV, film, graphic novels, computer games, etc.

Submissions should be clearly titled as follows: SURNAME_TITLE_BFSJOURNAL_CFP DEC 24 A 200-word abstract and 100-word author bio should be included. Work needs to original, previously unpublished, and referenced using the Harvard author/date system. The editor retains the right to edit any submission, and contributors must be willing to address any editorial suggestions within good time. Publication is expected late 2024.

Deadline for submissions: 31st August 2024 Send to: kmanwaring@aub.ac.uk

For full submission guidelines please refer to checklist on BFS site (updated soon).

https://britishfantasysociety.org/




Last updated April 25, 2024

CFP Women in the Black Fantastic Conference (8/2/2024; online 12/7-8/2024)

Women in the Black Fantastic

deadline for submissions:
August 2, 2024

full name / name of organization:
Science Fiction Foundation

contact email:
paulmarchrussell@gmail.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/03/01/women-in-the-black-fantastic

Following the success of our conference in 2022, the SFF will be organising a further two-day online event in partnership with Anglia Ruskin University on 7-8 December 2024.

The theme of the conference will be Women in the Black Fantastic and will mark the 40th anniversary of Octavia E. Butler winning both the Hugo Award for Best Short Story and the Nebula Award for Best Novelette.

Keynote Speakers: Nyasha Mugavazi plus one more tbc

In the past decade, and especially since the posthumous success of Parable of the Sower (1993), Butler has become a pillar of contemporary science fiction and fantasy. She has been joined by such authors as Malorie Blackman, Nalo Hopkinson, N.K. Jemisin, Nnedi Okorafor, Nisi Shawl and Rivers Solomon. But, under the umbrella of such movements as Afrofuturism, Africanfuturism and Indigenous Futurisms, Black female creators have been innovating speculative fiction in a variety of other media – film, music, comic books and the visual arts. Over the weekend, we want to celebrate the achievements of women working in, what Ekow Eshun has dubbed, ‘the Black fantastic’, and to look critically at the challenges that they face.

We invite 20-minute papers on topics that may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• The legacy of Octavia E. Butler
• The short story and the short fiction anthology
• Race and literary awards
• Utopia and dystopia
• Speculative fiction and postcolonial theory
• Hybridity, abjection, borders and the human body
• The Black cyborg
• Black sf and YA fiction
• Gender, sexuality and non-heteronormative identities
• Race and climate change fiction
• Migration, exile and displacement
• Alternate history and time travel
• Sf and the African Diaspora
• Legacies of empire and the slave trade
• Black sf and Astrofuturism
• The role of editors, publishers and agents

Proposals of up to 250 words with a bionote of 50 words should be sent to Dr Paul March-Russell at paulmarchrussell@gmail.com by 2 August 2024. We also welcome suggestions of panels. A selection of the papers will be published in Foundation in 2025. All proceeds from the conference will help support the Maureen K. Speller Travel Fund for independent scholars.



Last updated April 3, 2024

CFP PAMLA 2024 Panel: Fantasy and the Fantastic (4/30/2024; Palm Springs, CA 11/6-10/2024)

PAMLA 2024 Panel: Fantasy and the Fantastic

deadline for submissions:
April 30, 2024

full name / name of organization:
Kristin Noone / Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA 2024 Conference)

contact email:
kristinlnoone@gmail.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/04/24/pamla-2024-panel-fantasy-and-the-fantastic


Fantasy and the supernatural, broadly defined, shape many popular narratives and universes—from Lord of the Rings to Game of Thrones, from World of Warcraft to The Witcher, from classical and medieval tales of monsters and dragons to the worlds of N.K. Jemisin, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Nnedi Okorafor, and Ursula K. Le Guin. As a genre, fantasy engages with questions of rhetoric, identity, and power in multiple ways, across media, subgenres, and cultural traditions; the enchantment of fantastic and supernatural narratives casts a persistent and global spell.

For this standing session, all proposals that explore fantasy's evolutions and impacts, the fantastic and the supernatural, and/or intersections of fantasy and diverse genres, media, traditions, or time periods are invited. Proposals which intersect with the PAMLA conference theme of “Translation in Action” are welcome (though this is not a requirement!), particularly those which consider related questions of translation, mediation, interpretation, power and subversion, language-learning and world-construction, and cosmopolitanism.

Please submit your abstract via the PAMLA submission portal: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/CFP

Please see the PAMLA site for more information about the conference and the theme: https://www.pamla.org/conference/2024-conference-theme/

The PAMLA 2024 conference is in person in Palm Springs, CA, on November 6-10, 2024.



Last updated April 25, 2024