JAWS: Journal of Art & Writing

JAWS: Journal of Art & Writing (Journal)

ISSN 29776813 , ONLINE ISSN 29776821

JAWS is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes new art and writing from early- to mid-career researchers and practitioners working across creative disciplines. JAWS publishes writing about art and writing as art. We welcome practice-based research, visual essays, book reviews and interviews by emergent practitioners and researchers. Supporting criticality and experimentation in arts writing, the journal connects authors to an international audience. JAWS welcomes divergent and/or unconventional forms, as well as more traditional submissions.

Formerly published as JAWS: Journal of Arts Writing by Students, 2015–2025 (ISSN: 2055-2823, Online ISSN: 2055-2831).

Category: Visual Arts

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First published in 2025
2 issues per volume

Editors-in-Chief

Alice Hill-Woods
University of Bristol, UK
editors.jawsjournal@gmail.com

Lizzie Lloyd
University of the West of England, UK
editors.jawsjournal@gmail.com

Associate Editors

Hatty Nestor
University of Reading, UK
k.h.a.nestor@reading.ac.uk

Ralph Overill
Glasgow School of Art, UK
ralphoverill@gmail.com

Rebecca Sibley
University of the Arts London – LCC, UK
rebeccasibley@googlemail.com

Sajad Sotoudeh
University of Bristol, UK
af23066@bristol.ac.uk

Lucy Sames
University of the West of England, UK and Falmouth School of Art, UK
lucy2.sames@uwe.ac.uk

Notes for Contributors Download

Aims & Scope

JAWS: Journal of Art & Writing is an international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes new art and writing by researchers, practitioners and writers from a range of disciplines.

JAWS publishes writing about art and writing as art. We welcome original research articles, practice-based research, visual essays, book reviews and interviews. We encourage divergent and/or unconventional forms, as well as more traditional submissions. As it stands, we only accept submissions in the English language, but our aim is to connect international contributors with an international audience. We publish diverse critical and experimental submissions that are supported by rigorous, double-anonymized peer review, alongside diligent editorial processes. Our interdisciplinary editorial and advisory boards reflect these ambitions.

Scope

JAWS publishes articles, essays, critical reviews, interviews, and texts that perform and reflect on art and/or writing as both a discipline and a practice. Each issue builds around a theme or provocation, and contributions span a wide range of forms, including but not limited to:

Academic submissions up to 6000 words
Artistic Practice and/or Visual essays up to 5000 words / 12 images
Interviews up to 4000 words
Exhibition, book, event reviews between 1000 and 3000 words
Reflective pieces between 1000 and 3000 words

The journal also encourages submissions that challenge existing norms and push the boundaries of what constitutes art and writing.

Submissions

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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.

Intellect has partnered with Enago to offer a 20% discount on their services for our authors and contributors. Enago provide English editing services, including copy editing and translation. This service is intended for potential contributors who would like translation and/or copy editing assistance prior to submitting their work for consideration. Visit their page here to find out more.

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, external 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.

Editors-in-Chief

Alice Hill-Woods
University of Bristol, UK
editors.jawsjournal@gmail.com

Lizzie Lloyd
University of the West of England, UK
editors.jawsjournal@gmail.com

Associate Editors

Hatty Nestor
University of Reading, UK
k.h.a.nestor@reading.ac.uk

Ralph Overill
Glasgow School of Art, UK
ralphoverill@gmail.com

Rebecca Sibley
University of the Arts London – LCC, UK
rebeccasibley@googlemail.com

Sajad Sotoudeh
University of Bristol, UK
af23066@bristol.ac.uk

Lucy Sames
University of the West of England, UK and Falmouth School of Art, UK
lucy2.sames@uwe.ac.uk

Editors-in-Chief

Alice Hill-Woods
University of Bristol, UK
editors.jawsjournal@gmail.com

Lizzie Lloyd
University of the West of England, UK
editors.jawsjournal@gmail.com

Associate Editors

Hatty Nestor
University of Reading, UK
k.h.a.nestor@reading.ac.uk

Ralph Overill
Glasgow School of Art, UK
ralphoverill@gmail.com

Rebecca Sibley
University of the Arts London – LCC, UK
rebeccasibley@googlemail.com

Sajad Sotoudeh
University of Bristol, UK
af23066@bristol.ac.uk

Lucy Sames
University of the West of England, UK and Falmouth School of Art, UK
lucy2.sames@uwe.ac.uk

Editors-in-Chief

Alice Hill-Woods
University of Bristol, UK
editors.jawsjournal@gmail.com

Lizzie Lloyd
University of the West of England, UK
editors.jawsjournal@gmail.com

Associate Editors

Hatty Nestor
University of Reading, UK
k.h.a.nestor@reading.ac.uk

Ralph Overill
Glasgow School of Art, UK
ralphoverill@gmail.com

Rebecca Sibley
University of the Arts London – LCC, UK
rebeccasibley@googlemail.com

Sajad Sotoudeh
University of Bristol, UK
af23066@bristol.ac.uk

Lucy Sames
University of the West of England, UK and Falmouth School of Art, UK
lucy2.sames@uwe.ac.uk

Call for Papers

JAWS 11.1: Bodies in Process

Face-to-face with the idea of process, we might think of praxis, or artistic process, as a practice of continuation and development, of adapting to a constant present. We might think of writers and artists adopting a specific process, or how their bodies accrue the residues of their practice. Process also gestures to layers and strata, and the act of building upon something solid in order to speculate something new. We might think of what is ‘unfinished’ or ‘incomplete’, but how this mediates how we read it. Process is dynamic and agile; process can afford mishaps in the pursuit of something that holds depth. We might think of annotations and strikethroughs, of birth and death and how something persists beyond its intended trajectory. We might think of pace and tempo; we might think of the present moment and how it is inextricable from the processes that led to it. Bodies both stage and are staged by various processes, governed by intra-actions and activities beneath what is immediately visible. In the mutable space of art/writing, we might contemplate such bodies in transition, their affects and effects and how these lead us back to making work that troubles closure.

For Volume 11.1, JAWS: Journal of Art & Writing invites work that contemplates bodies in process, whether that means material bodies doing the work of processing – absorption, digestion, excretion – or bodies of work between starting and finishing and everything in between. We welcome practice-based research, visual essays, book reviews and interviews by emergent practitioners and researchers, and we're particularly interested to receive academic submissions that respond to the theme (up to 6000 words). For academic submissions please submit a 300-word abstract by 31 March 2025. Please submit any completed submissions by 25 April 2025.

Submissions may relate in some way, but are not limited to:

Queer bodies

Metabolising

Digestion

Excretion

Collage

Death studies

Procedural writing/procedural poetry

Feminism

Autotheory

Crip Theory

Migrations

Motherhood

Queer theory

Memoir

Drafts and revisions

Preliminary drawings

Sketchbooks

Gestures

Movement

Intersectionality

Sovereignty

Editors-in-Chief

Alice Hill-Woods
University of Bristol, UK
editors.jawsjournal@gmail.com

Lizzie Lloyd
University of the West of England, UK
editors.jawsjournal@gmail.com

Associate Editors

Hatty Nestor
University of Reading, UK
k.h.a.nestor@reading.ac.uk

Ralph Overill
Glasgow School of Art, UK
ralphoverill@gmail.com

Rebecca Sibley
University of the Arts London – LCC, UK
rebeccasibley@googlemail.com

Sajad Sotoudeh
University of Bristol, UK
af23066@bristol.ac.uk

Lucy Sames
University of the West of England, UK and Falmouth School of Art, UK
lucy2.sames@uwe.ac.uk

Editorial Board

Clementine Butler-Gallie
Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany

Michael Eden
University of Arts London, UK

Roy Claire Potter
Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Advisory Board

Emma Bolland
Independent Researcher

Emma Cocker
Nottingham School of Art and Design, UK

Eduardo Corte-Real
IADE-Universidade Europeia, Portugal

Maria Fusco
University of Dundee, UK

Amanda Hodgkinson
University of Suffolk, UK

Falk Hübner
Fontys Academy of the Arts, the Netherlands

Wiebke Leister
London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK

Jeremy Millar
Royal College of Art, UK

Juan Sádaba
University of the Basque Country, Spain

Craig Staff
University of Northampton, UK

Susannah Thompson
Glasgow School of Art, UK

Editors-in-Chief

Alice Hill-Woods
University of Bristol, UK
editors.jawsjournal@gmail.com

Lizzie Lloyd
University of the West of England, UK
editors.jawsjournal@gmail.com

Associate Editors

Hatty Nestor
University of Reading, UK
k.h.a.nestor@reading.ac.uk

Ralph Overill
Glasgow School of Art, UK
ralphoverill@gmail.com

Rebecca Sibley
University of the Arts London – LCC, UK
rebeccasibley@googlemail.com

Sajad Sotoudeh
University of Bristol, UK
af23066@bristol.ac.uk

Lucy Sames
University of the West of England, UK and Falmouth School of Art, UK
lucy2.sames@uwe.ac.uk

Editors-in-Chief

Alice Hill-Woods
University of Bristol, UK
editors.jawsjournal@gmail.com

Lizzie Lloyd
University of the West of England, UK
editors.jawsjournal@gmail.com

Associate Editors

Hatty Nestor
University of Reading, UK
k.h.a.nestor@reading.ac.uk

Ralph Overill
Glasgow School of Art, UK
ralphoverill@gmail.com

Rebecca Sibley
University of the Arts London – LCC, UK
rebeccasibley@googlemail.com

Sajad Sotoudeh
University of Bristol, UK
af23066@bristol.ac.uk

Lucy Sames
University of the West of England, UK and Falmouth School of Art, UK
lucy2.sames@uwe.ac.uk

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