JAWS: Journal of Arts Writing by Students (Journal)

ISSN 20552823 , ONLINE ISSN 20552831

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.

For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe, visit the Discover platform here.

From volume 11 (2025), JAWS: Journal of Arts Writing by Students will be published as JAWS: Journal of Art & Writing.



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 Editor

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

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

Notes for Contributors Download


Aims & Scope

JAWS is an international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes new art and writing from early- to mid-career researchers and practitioners working across artistic mediums. 

Founded as the Journal of Arts Writing by Students at Chelsea School of Art in 2013 and published by Intellect since 2015, the journal was the first of its kind entirely dedicated to students' work in artistic research. JAWS publishes writing about art and writing as art. We welcome practice-based research, visual essays, book reviews and interviews by practitioners and researchers. 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. 

As a platform, we foster criticality and experimentation. The support and expertise of an established network of editors and peer reviewers allow for co-produced reflection and discussion, guiding our contributors to publish reimagined approaches to writing in artistic scholarship and creative practice. We aim to balance such experiments with the academic rigour of peer review alongside attentive and diligent editorial processes.

Please visit the JAWS website at: www.jawsjournal.com

Submissions

To submit an article, please follow the 'Submit' button on the left of this 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, 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 Editor

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

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

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

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

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

Hatty Nestor
University of Reading, UK
k.h.a.nestor@reading.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 and 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). 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 Editor

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

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

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

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

 
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Contents

  • Volume (8): Issue (1)
  • Cover date: 2022


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  • Volume (8): Issue (2)
  • Cover date: 2022


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  • Volume (6): Issue (1)
  • Cover date: 2020


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  • Volume (6): Issue (2)
  • Cover date: 2020


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  • Volume (5): Issue (1)
  • Cover date: 2019


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  • Volume (5): Issue (2)
  • Cover date: 2019


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  • Volume (4): Issue (1)
  • Cover date: 2018


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  • Volume (4): Issue (2)
  • Cover date: 2018


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  • Volume (3): Issue (1&2)
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  • Volume (2): Issue (1)
  • Cover date: 2016


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  • Volume (2): Issue (2)
  • Cover date: 2016


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  • Volume (1): Issue (1)
  • Cover date: 2015


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  • Volume (1): Issue (2)
  • Cover date: 2015


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 Editor

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

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

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