An article by Ken Faig Jr. in the latest issue of The Fossil (January 2020) reveals a new journal from the International Society of Literary Juvenilia, the Journal of Juvenilia Studies. I’m pleased to see that the new journal is open-access, and has so far produced three issues and includes book reviews. It’s been added to my JURN search-engine, which enables the discovery of articles in open-access arts & humanities journals.

The journal is devoted to discussion of the works of young writers, and of the juvenilia of famous writers when they were young, rather than literature for ‘juveniles’ (as Lovecraft’s era termed them, though marketeers and librarians would today refer to them as ‘young adults’). This makes the journal relevant to The Fossil and the history of amateur journalism, and also to Lovecraft because so many of the producers of amateur publications were youngsters. The Journal of Juvenilia Studies could thus be the place to land an article on this aspect of Lovecraft’s complex network of postal ‘zines / correspondence / book-borrowing / letters-pages / boy-printers and so on.

As for The Fossil, this also offers a publication opportunity — the editor remarks in the latest issue that he’s keen to see more “articles related to amateur journalism” from new hands.