Call for Submissions
NEW! CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
"The Power Between Us: Building Community, Cultivating Resilience, and Collective Power"
Special IssueTatiana C. Parker, Guest Editor
Roberta Hurtado, Journal Liason
Submission Deadline: November 2026
Tentative Publication: May 2027
Description: This special issue of Gatherings: an interdisciplinary, intersectional feminist journal examines how connection, relationships, networks, structures, and collective practices influence belonging, resilience, well-being, opportunity, and power. The definition of community can be understood as a place, relationship, network, shared identity, institution, cultural tradition, or collective practice, and is shaped by close ties among people with shared identities or experiences, relationships that connect people across difference, and links to institutions and decision-makers. The issue also approaches the subject critically by exploring what resources make connection possible, who carries the burden of sustaining it, what systems have failed, and how communities can move from survival toward flourishing.
This call for submissions is open to contributors in Central New York and beyond and invites work that reflects on community as it is experienced, studied, created, and practiced across disciplines, sectors, cultures, and contexts. We welcome contributions from scholars, practitioners, artists, organizers, educators, students, community leaders, and people drawing upon lived experience. Consistent with the values of the guest editor, selected contributions will undergo and participate in a blind peer review of other selected submissions.
We welcome formal scholarly essays, creative writing, and visual formats that can be digitally reproduced, including graphic art, photography, and scanned paintings.
PENDING ISSUE
"Abandoned at the Gate: An Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Feminist Analysis of Gatekeeping in Academia"
Special IssueJaynelle D. Nixon, Editor
Submission Deadlines:
- Full/Complete Submissions (NO ABSTRACTS) for Peer Review: May 1, 2026
- Acceptance Notification: August 31, 2026
- Publication Date: November 2026
Description: This special issue of Gatherings: an interdisciplinary, intersectional feminist journal invites scholars, artists, and activists to reflect on gatekeeping in academia. We welcome submissions in the form of traditional academic papers, as well as essays, memoir, interviews, video or audio pieces, artwork that can be reproduced digitally, and other formats that can be published digitally. Click here for full CFS.