CFP: The Genesis and Generation of Creative Writing (April/May 2027 issue)
We invite 150-word abstracts for proposed articles, which might include topics such as:
- New models for ‘inspiration’
- Reconceptualising the ‘Muse’
- Intertextuality and the genesis of new creative writing
- Cultural works (e.g. works of visual art) and the genesis of new creative writing
- Starting points in the creative process
- Creative writing, ‘inspiration’ and the factual
- Finding creative writing prompts in the real
- Recreating histories in creative writing
- Truth, invention and ‘inspiration’
Abstracts for articles on related topics are also welcome.
All abstracts should be submitted by 30 October 2026 through the Axon Submittable site: https://axoncreativeexplorations.submittable.com/submit
If an abstract is accepted by the editors, the full article will be due by 15 February 2027.
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.
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.