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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please find below and attached a CFP for a Special Issue of <i>
Text</i>, to be published in October 2015. Please feel free to distribute this to your respective networks.
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<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Call for Papers:
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#2C2F3D">A Special Issue of
<i>TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses </i></span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#2C2F3D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#3A5450">http://www.textjournal.com.au/
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#2C2F3D">Editors:
<i>Dr. Jay Daniel Thompson (La Trobe University), Dr. Dallas J. Baker (Southern Cross University)
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#2C2F3D">This special issue of
<i>TEXT </i>reflects and builds on <i>Australia Queer</i>, a pioneering collection of queer writing.
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The 1990s saw the rise of queer theory and politics. Annamarie Jagose has described queer ‘as an umbrella term for a coalition of culturally marginal sexual self-identifications and …
a nascent theoretical model which has developed out of more traditional lesbian and gay studies’ (1996: 1). In Australia, the arrival of queer was heralded by the work of writers such as Christos Tsiolkas, Dean Kiley and Fiona McGregor; the activism of groups
such as the Australian chapter of ActUp; and scholarly work which includes journals such as
<i>Critical InQueeries </i>(1995-98) and a 1996 Special Edition of <i>Meanjin</i>, entitled ‘Australia Queer’.
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">For this Special Edition of
<i>TEXT</i>, we are calling for submissions—fiction, scholarly non-fiction, plays and essays— that address the question of what ‘Australia queer’ might mean in the current historical moment. Is ‘queer’ still viable, twenty years after its inception, or has
it been superseded? What does it mean, in the early twenty-first century, to be ‘Australian’ and ‘queer’? What might ‘Australia queer’ mean?
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Scholarly papers should be no more than six thousand words in length. Creative works will usually be 3,500 – 5,000 words in length, or poetry or short fiction up to 3,000 words
in length, or as agreed by editors. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#2C2F3D">Creative work must be accompanied by an ERA research statement that clearly explains the submission’s relevance as a research outcome. Peruse any of
<i>TEXT </i>journal’s <i>Creative Writing as Research </i>special issues to familiarise yourself with the ERA statements.
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#2C2F3D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#2C2F3D">Deadline for initial submissions:
<b>March 1st 2015 <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#2C2F3D">Please include a brief biography (200 words max, in
<i>TEXT </i>style) and ensure that you include your email address for reply. Submissions MUST be in
<i>TEXT </i>style and formatting. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#2C2F3D">Final revised submissions Due:
<b>July 1st 2015</b>. Publication Date: <b>October 2015 <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#2C2F3D">Email: </span><span style="color:blue">Dallas.Baker@scu.edu.au
</span><span style="color:#2C2F3D">or </span><span style="color:blue">Jay.Thompson@latrobe.edu.au</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Warm regards, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Dr. Jay Daniel Thompson</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Research and Publications Officer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Book Reviews Editor, Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (JASAL)<br>
<b>Judith Lumley Centre</b> | <b>La Trobe University</b>| Level 3, 215 Franklin Street | Melbourne VIC 3000<br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Ph: +61 3 9479 8792 </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">| F: +61 3 9479
8811 | E: <a href="mailto:jay.thompson@latrobe.edu.au"><span style="color:blue">jay.thompson@latrobe.edu.au</span></a> |
<a href="http://www.latrobe.edu.au/jlc"><span style="color:blue">www.latrobe.edu.au/jlc</span></a>
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