Gothic Nature: New Directions in EcoHorror<\/a><\/em>. The chunky first issue is already online, seemingly coming out of the Gothic Studies \/ Ecocriticism postgrad crowd in academia. They are obviously happy to range into popular culture. Note also that they will also review suitable works.<\/p>\n* Journal of the British Fantasy Society<\/em>, call for papers for a future (late 2020 or 2021) special issue “about works of fantasy translated into English”.<\/p>\n* MDPI’s Humanities<\/em> journal is planning a Special Issue on the “relationship between modernism and science fiction”. <\/p>\n* Journal of Dracula Studies<\/em>, is planning a Special Issue on witches.<\/p>\n* Gothic Studies<\/em> is planning a Special Issue on ‘Tales of Terror: Gothic and the Short Form’ (Nov 2021). They appear to want papers on how the very short form, brevity, elision, the left-unsaid, tight story-mechanics, etc, contribute to the effectiveness of terror-tales.<\/p>\n* Announced is a new wide-ranging Religion and Comics<\/em> series from Claremont Press. Not open access, but “paperbacks with a price point between $20-$30” rather than the usual $80 academic tome.<\/p>\n* The Outer Dark Symposium, 27th – 28th March 2020, Atlanta, USA. The focus is on “contemporary Weird fiction writers”, and it appears to be something of a social convention for writers as well as a symposium.<\/p>\n
* Conference on Contemporary Folk Horror in Film and Media, Leeds Beckett University in the UK, 30th – 31st July 2020. Probably with a British slant, I’m guessing. Think Wicker Man<\/em> and Penda’s Fen<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A quick round-up of some calls, new journals, conferences, of possible interest… * A new open access journal, Gothic Nature: …<\/p>\n
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