This issue of the Axon: Creative Explorations journal will explore the relationships and connections between Creative Writing, Place and History and will be published in the December–January 2024-25 issue.
The editors, Paul Hetherington and Cassandra Atherton, now invite 150-word abstracts for proposed articles related to the relationships and connections between Creative Writing, Place and History, which might include topics such as:
- Poetry and place
- Poetry and history
- Genius Loci as a concept
- Creative writing and the factual
- Writing about ‘what actually happened’
- Recreating histories
- The relationship between truth, facts and invention
- Visiting writing locations
- Understanding the ‘other’ in other places
- The creative use of documentary resources
- Biography and creativity
Abstracts for articles on other related topics are also welcome.
All abstracts should be submitted by 30 APRIL 2024 at Axon’s Submissions Manager (https://axoncreativeexplorations.submittable.com/submit)
If an abstract is accepted by the editors, the full article will be due by 31 OCTOBER 2024.
Articles, essays, papers and other scholarly contributions are peer reviewed in a double blind process and in producing a research-based paper, authors should be drawing on a sound framework of scholarship relevant to the paper’s topic, rather than purely on personal experience and/or anecdotal evidence. Papers are expected to make a contribution that extends the current literature in the field. Authors are welcome to take a creative or lateral approach to their topic or to incorporate images or other graphic work.
Further information for authors is available here: https://axonjournal.com.au/contribute
Final revised articles, papers, essays and interviews (including endnotes) will be a minimum of 3,000 words and maximum of 6,000 words in length.
Please note: poems for the issue will be solicited by the editors. Unsolicited poems should not be submitted.