Open Call – Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings – Issue 11.1 (Spring 2026)
The Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (ISSN 2506-8709) offers an online publication platform to researchers who wish to explore various aesthetic ‘crossings’ concerning media, genres and/or spaces. Targeted squarely at investigating the ‘in-between,’ the journal seeks contributions from scholars broadly covering medial, literary, generic, spatial and cultural crossings that bridge a plurality of potential discourses, modalities, and methodologies. We particularly welcome articles focusing on e.g. intra-, inter- and transmedial phenomena, hypermedia, genre hybridization and mixing, (inter-/cross-)cultural exchange, networks, interactions, contact zones, entanglements, cross-border movements, multilingualism, transnationality, topographies, etc. JLIC publishes two issues a year and has a running open call.
We welcome contributions between 5,000 and 6,000 words (references and footnotes included) in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian or Spanish. All manuscripts are peer-reviewed. JLIC supports textual as well as multi-media formatting. All work submitted to JLIC should reference and be formatted according to our Author Guidelines. Articles should be submitted in Word format and figures, video and audio files etc. should be saved separately from the text.
The deadline for full articles is 15 June 2025.
Please send an abstract of maximum 350 words (in English and, if applicable, also in the language of your article, i.e. Dutch, French, German, Italian or Spanish), a list of 3-5 keywords (in the same (two) language(s)) and a 100-word author bio (in English only) to jlic@vub.be by 1 February 2025. The editorial board will notify all contributors who applied by 20 February 2025.
Potential contributors should bear in mind that a two-stage review process is envisaged. In the first stage, articles will be reviewed by one of the journal editors. In the second stage, articles will be double-blind peer-reviewed by at least one external anonymous expert referee. Articles will be published free of charge and open access on the website of JLIC. Contributions will be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY NC 4.0).
JLIC considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that:
- the manuscript is your own original work, and does not duplicate any other previously published work, including your own.
- the manuscript has been submitted only to the Journal of Literary and Intermedial Crossings; it is not under consideration or peer review or accepted for publication or published elsewhere.
- the manuscript contains nothing that is abusive, defamatory, libellous, obscene, fraudulent, or illegal.
- the author has obtained the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in their article. Limited use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted without securing formal permission, for the purposes of criticism and review. If you wish to include any material in your article for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this critical agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission.