Theme: Reconsidering Roots: The Phenomenon that Changed the Way We Understood American Slavery
Transition is particularly interested in topics that examine Roots in the Age of Obama or Roots’ reception outside of the United States.
Will consider full submissions of short fiction, poetry, and original artwork on the theme. Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words between now and December 1, 2015 to Erica L. Ball (California State University, Fullerton) at eball@fullerton.edu and Kellie Carter Jackson (Hunter College) at kellie.jackson@hunter.cuny.edu. Those invited to send full submissions will be notified by January 2016. Completed essays should be between 2,500-6,000 words and will be due April 1, 2016. Invitation to submit is not a guarantee of publication.
Transition expects nonfiction pieces published to display the virtues of high-quality literary fiction, especially narrative prose, which leads the reader naturally from one sentence to the next. Rich description and attention to voice, tone, imagery, and word choice are all appreciated. Welcomes provocative points of view that stimulate debate. Please see Transition’s full submission guidelines, and its online archive of sample articles, when crafting your proposal.
As a nonacademic journal, Transition does not run footnotes or give strict bibliographic documentation for the ideas expressed in essays. Academic clichés, locutions, and jargon should be avoided. Familiarize yourself with published articles in the open access archive on the Transition website, or to read a recent issue (available on JSTOR) to gain a sense of both the content and style that we seek. Contributors should also expect to revise after Editorial review. More information, with genre-specific guidelines, can be found here https://transition.submittable.com/submit
Guest editors: Erica L. Ball and Kellie Carter Jackson
Abstract deadline: December 1, 2015
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