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<b><font face="Arial" size="2">Shakespeare 400: A Special Issue of <i>TEXT</i></font></b></p>
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<span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="http://www.textjournal.com.au/" target="_blank"><font face="Arial" size="2">http://www.textjournal.com.au/</font></a></span></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="2">Editors: <i>Associate Professor Laurie Johnson, Dr. Dallas J. Baker</i></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="2">This special issue of <i>TEXT</i> takes the opportunity of the 400<span style="line-height:normal"><sup>th</sup></span> anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death to explore the nexus between Creative Writing and Shakespeare Studies,
in particular the ways that Shakespeare and his work are being studied and applied in the context of the practice and pedagogy of creative writing (broadly defined)<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">. This special issue aims to provide researchers and creative
practitioners with an opportunity to:</span></font></p>
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<li style="margin:0px 0px 5px; line-height:normal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="line-height:normal"></span>"write back" to Shakespeare</font>
</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 5px; line-height:normal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="line-height:normal"></span>discuss/explore writing practice, process or pedagogy informed or inspired by Shakespeare</font>
</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 5px; line-height:normal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="line-height:normal"></span>explore and discuss Shakespeare's work as works of a writing practice (scriptwriting, poetry)</font>
</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 5px; line-height:normal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="line-height:normal"></span>discuss aspects of Shakespeare’s writerly biography</font>
</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 5px; line-height:normal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="line-height:normal"></span>engage in broader discussion of Shakespeare that connects literary studies and creative writing</font>
</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 5px; line-height:normal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="line-height:normal"></span>explore questions such as how might Creative Writing as a discipline inform Shakespeare Studies and vice versa.</font>
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<font face="Arial" size="2">For this Special Edition of <i>TEXT</i>, we are calling for submissions of research papers that engage with the work of William Shakespeare in the context of Creative Writing, including the teaching of writing and playwriting. In
the context of the teaching and practice of Creative Writing, papers can address questions or themes such as:</font></p>
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<li style="margin:0px 0px 5px; line-height:normal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="line-height:normal"></span>Presentism: What Shakespeare and his work might mean in the current historical moment.</font>
</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 5px; line-height:normal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="line-height:normal"></span>Eco-critical Shakespeare Studies</font>
</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 5px; line-height:normal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="line-height:normal"></span>Textual materialism: understanding Shakespeare’s written works and/or or ways of writing back to Shakespeare based on an understanding of
the technologies of text in early-modern theatre (cue scripts, parts, plots etc.)</font>
</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 5px; line-height:normal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="line-height:normal"></span>The nexus between Digital Humanities and Shakespeare Studies (e.g. computational analysis, stylistics)</font>
</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 5px; line-height:normal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="line-height:normal"></span>Re-imagining Shakespeare and his writing in relation to “the other 99%” (Shakespeare’s contemporaries, lost plays etc.)</font>
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<font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Fiction, scholarly non-fiction, plays and essays may also be acceptable but need to be negotiated with the editors (by email). If accepted,
</span>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 <a href="http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue30/content.htm" target="_blank">
<span style="line-height:normal; color:rgb(4,99,193)"><i>Creative Writing as Research</i></span></a> special issues to familiarize yourself with the ERA statements.</font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="2">Deadline for initial submissions:<b> June 15</b><span style="line-height:normal"><b><sup>th</sup></b></span><b> 2016</b></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="2">Please include an abstract of no more than 250 words and 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.</font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="2">Final revised submissions Due: <b>September 1</b><span style="line-height:normal"><b><sup>st</sup></b></span><b> 2016</b>. Publication Date:<b> October 2016 </b></font></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(44,48,62)"><font face="Arial" size="2">Email: <a href="mailto:Dallas.Baker@scu.edu.au" target="_blank">
<span style="color:rgb(4,99,193)">Dallas.Baker@scu.edu.au</span></a> or <a href="mailto:Laurence.Johnson@usq.edu.au" target="_blank">
<span style="color:rgb(4,99,193)">Laurence.Johnson@usq.edu.au</span></a></font></span></p>
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