CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Here you can find information about submitting to anthologies I'm currently editing. Other projects are in the works, so be sure and check back often.

Fiction:

Non-Fiction:

I'm putting together a book of essays about class, race, and gender/sexulaity in the Harry Potter series. I like the series and we think it's about bloody time someone assembled a book like this, a primer, if you will, about these themes in J.K. Rowling's work. And I want to read your abstracts!

In posting this call for essays, I want to make it very clear that as of now I DO NOT have a publisher. But I'm looking for abstracts at this time because this project can only be described as ginormous. So, I need to at least put out the word now and get abstracts to save me trouble, to make the book more tasty for potential publishers, and to actually get it done as close to Book 7's release as possible.

Basically I'm only looking for papers that deal with the books. While I may include one or two papers on fan fiction and fandom, these will definitely be int he minority. I figured there were a lot of scholarly works out there on fan culture already, and both of us really don't have the sociology background to edit such a collection. but if you have a paper on, say, gender performance in Harry Potter rpgs, or the conception of gender in Harry/Draco fan fiction or what have you that you're just dying to share, let me know. Maybe it will fit.

Send abstracts and papers to the appropriately named callforabstracts at gmail.com. I'll be taking abstracts until mid-December.

As far as abstracts go, I'm pretty open on format, though we'd like it to be fairly detailed (400-500 words). If you're working on an essay already, have sources, and would like to mention them, that's great too. If you've got an essay prepared, fantastic! Send it! I ask that essays fall between 3000 and 6000 words, but you've something shorter or longer that you'd like to send, I'd be happy to talk.

Most importantly, if this isn't your bag or your speciality but you know a friend/relative/colleague/ambitious English/Childrens Lit/Gender Studies major/what have you who would be all over this, tell them. If they have any questions, I'd be more than happy to field them over at upstart.crow at gmail.com.

Thanks and happy writing!