Additional Calls for Papers

𝔖everal sources have pointed out some more calls for papers that may well be of interest to Society members. A trio of them comes from Society member Michael Torregrossa, who notes

Carl Sell and I are organizing three virtual sessions for NeMLA's 2027 convention next March (3/6-9-2027). Details below.

We welcome submissions on medievalisms (as well as materials from other periods). Proposals are due by 9/30/2026.

• Fostering Interpretive Communities in the Classroom and Research through Adaptation Studies (Roundtable) (Virtual)
• Fusion or Fracture in the Hundred Acre Woods: Community in Adaptations of Winnie-the-Pooh (Virtual)
• Using Comics to Build Community: Approaches to Teaching Comics (Roundtable) (Virtual)

Society member Margot Lamy also points out a pair of others. One of them is a general CFP for MAMO, details for which are available here. The other is for the British Fantasy Society's journal, which is seeking articles on gender in fantasy, writing:

Fantasy has long explored lifeworlds and paradigms outside of societal norms. Orlando, Virginia Woolf’s gender-fluid protagonist, declares, ‘I’m sick to death of this particular self. I want another.’ World myths, legends, folk tales, and fairy tales are early promoters of gender-fluidity, populated by the likes of Inanna/Ishtar; Hermaphroditus, the offspring of Hermes and Aphrodite; androgynous Dionysus; Ardhanarishvara; Ometeotl; Guanyin; cross-dressing thunder and trickster gods; heartsick seafaring maidens disguised as sailors; and the mercurial ontologies of the Fae. In this issue we will explore how gender is portrayed and explored in Fantasy. Fantasy plays an important role in enlarging what is possible, and creating refugia for the marginalised and other modalities. In an increasingly intolerant, xenophobic, and close-minded world, where Far Right governments roll back hard-won freedoms and civil rights legislation, and undermine, mock or openly attack important principles of equality, diversity, and inclusivity, this function of Fantasy is never more vital, for as Orlando states, ‘He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.’

The BFS Journal is seeking original, unpublished, human-authored articles of between 2000-8000 words (including bibliography). Possible approaches include:

• Non-binary identities and challenging binaries.
• Found families and marginalised identities in YA Fantasy
• The portrayal of matriarchies and patriarchies in Fantasy worlds.
• The rise of Romantasy and the female gaze.
• The performance of gender.
• Power and gender roles.
• Queer Fantasy and destabilisations of heteronormativity in Fantasy.
• The divine masculine and feminine in Fantasy.
• Masks, disguises, masquerades and carnivals.
• Friendships and relationships in Fantasy.
• Flirting, courting, and marriage in Fantasy.

Send the Abstract (200 words), including title, keywords, and a 100-word bio to the Editor (Dr Kevan Manwaring) by 31st August. The BFS Journal Winter issue will be published December 2026. Completed articles, if commissioned, will be due in by 30th September when they will undergo peer-review. Send to: bfsjournal@britishfantasysociety.org.

Submission details are available here.

This is all in addition to our standing call for contributions to the blog; we can always use more content here! It's also in addition to our own CFP for #Kzoo2027. We're happy to offer platforms for your work, both within and without academe.

Members of the Society interested in submitting are still encouraged to do so. Those wishing to discuss session-formation with other Society members remain encouraged to use the Society Discord to do so; those not already having access to the Society Discord may still request it by emailing the Society at talesaftertolkien@gmail.com. And those having CFPs they'd like to see distributed continue to be similarly encouraged. We'd still love to hear from you!