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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Principal Editor

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

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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.

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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.

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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

Principal Editor

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

Principal Editor

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

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Call for Papers: The Short Story and Ecology Download

Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2023



General Call for Papers 

Contributions are invited for Short Fiction in Theory and Practice, a new, 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  

The Short Story and Ecology

 

If you knew you were at the last days of the human story,

what would you write? How would you write?

—Ben Okri

 

In The Ecological Thought (2010), Timothy Morton argues that art is central in this moment of climate emergency. Because art is ‘a place in our culture that deals with intensity, shame, abjection and loss’ (10), it can help us face and represent the realities of the current environmental crisis, if not imagine ways out of it and worlds beyond our present one. Moreover, Morton reminds us that ‘all art – not just explicitly ecological art – hardwires the environment into its form’ (11). The choice to write a novel over a lyric poem, for example, determines the way in which a literary text engages with and represents the world within which it is produced. With all this in mind, we want to ask: what relationships exist between the short story and the environment?

Short stories concerned with ecology are clearly on the rise. Recent important collections such as Lesley Nneka Arimah’s What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky (2017) or Diane Cook’s Man v. Nature (2014), and anthologies like John Joseph Adams’ Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction (2015) all attest to the way in which short story writers are using their art to address the issues presently affecting the planet. But in what precise ways are they doing so? What have short stories today and, in the past, had to say about climate, nature, and our interaction with them? And is the short story in any way an especially suited form to address these issues? Typically seen as an urban form, the short story has long been associated with the city and its fast-paced rhythms, with the development of modern technologies like photography and cinema. Yet, the connection between short fiction and the natural world, from fairy tales to the stories of Sarah Orne Jewett or Ursula K. Le Guin, remains to be mapped and thoroughly explored.

The short story is also concerned with the environment in other ways. To begin with, short stories create their own environment to the extent that, as a distinct literary form, they engage in particular ways or world-making. Further, short stories rarely arrive to readers as standalone texts, but characteristically depend on their association with or integration in specific textual environments for their success. The collection, the cycle, the anthology, the magazine or the website all constitute ecosystems where the short story has lived and continues to live. The study of these aspects of short fiction would amount to the formulation of an ecology of the short story.

We welcome creative work and scholarly articles between 4000 and 8000 words addressing any aspect of the rich intersection between the short story and the environment. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Climate (short) fiction
  • Nature in/and the short story
  • Short fiction and environmental activism
  • Ecocritical approaches to short fiction
  • The short story and climate migration(s)
  • Environment as form in short stories
  • Context as environment in short stories
  • Utopian/dystopian short fiction
  • Writing, reading and teaching the short story in a context of climate emergency
  • The ecology of fairy tales and oral storytelling
  • Indigenous stories

 

Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2023

Please visit the Short Fiction in Theory and Practice website for submission guidelines at: https://www.intellectbooks.com/short-fiction-in-theory-practice

For informal enquiries please contact Associate Editors Aleix Tura Vecino (aleix.turavecino@glasgow.ac.uk) or Andrea Ashworth (Ashworta@edgehill.ac.uk).

 

Principal Editor

Ailsa Cox
Edge Hill University
coxa@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

Joanna Wilson-Scott
University of Aberdeen, UK

Kim Wiltshire
Edge Hill University, UK

Principal Editor

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

 
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Contents

  • Volume (13): Issue (1)
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Principal Editor

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

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