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The editors of English: the Journal of the English Association are pleased to initiate in 2017 the opening of an annual essay competition exclusive to postgraduates. The competition provides an ideal opportunity for students to enhance their CV through the publication of their work in an excellent high-profile journal that caters to a very wide range of genres, periods, and critical approaches.

We are looking for essays that provide new perspectives on canonical and/or non-canonical Anglophone literatures, and therefore welcome submissions that focus on single authors/texts or a range, and which develop original arguments beyond simple close reading, while engaging with recent scholarship in relevant fields. The competition is open to any postgraduate student who is registered on a doctoral programme at any institution anywhere in the world, by, or within three months of, the submission deadline: September 30th 2017 (Winner announced December 2017).

All essays are subject to an anonymous peer review by a panel of established experts in literary studies and all will be considered for publication in English: the Journal of the English Association. The award of £250 and publication in the journal will be made to the winner. There will also be a runner up prize of £100. Each will receive a year’s subscription to English.

Submissions
Submissions should be made through the journal’s submission portal: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/english

Please include EPEP in the submission title to indicate it is to be considered for the prize.

Submissions should meet the journal’s criteria for publication outlined on the journal webpages: https://academic.oup.com/english/pages/General_Instructions

The Journal of Modern Literature invites submissions for a special cluster on “Embodiment in 20th and 21st-century literature and literary culture”

Topics addressed may include disability and diverse forms of corporeality and mindedness; pain and pleasure; sensory experience and mentation; new materialist approaches to embodiment; bodies and literary form.

How to submit

Submissions should conform to MLA 8th edition style for documentation and manuscript formatting, and should include a 100-150 word abstract and 3-5 keywords. Submissions must be under 9,000 words for the entire submission package, including the abstract, notes and works cited. No simultaneous submissions or previously published material.

Deadline February 1, 2018. Submit manuscripts as a Word or RTF attachment to jml.editorial@gmail.com. We accept only electronic submissions.

The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945 invites submissions from scholars of intermodernism and the interwar period.

A one-day conference on Hugh MacDiarmid and Scottish Modernism, 1900-1930 is to be held at Edinburgh University on 11th August 2017.

A quick reminder that the CFP for the next Modernist Network Cymru (MONC) conference on the theme of ‘Word and Image’ closes this Friday, 24 February 2017.