Who can submit?

While our themed issues rely on contributions solicited by guest editorial teams, open call issues are peer-reviewed by members of our editorial board. We encourage submissions from artists, scholars, writers, performers, directors, choreographers, musicians, designers, students, teachers, programmers, and spectators. You need not have a publication record. Authors who have published with us in the past are also welcome to share their work again.

What should a submission look like?

Generally, we encourage the publication of shorter work, though there is not prescribed word limit. Prospective authors are encouraged to explore the website, as well as the book Imagined Theatres: writing for a theoretical stage, for a sense of possible approaches, bearing in mind that these are merely suggestions. We emphasize the written word, but are open to submissions that take advantage of the digital form in interesting ways. Images, sounds, and videos are welcome. If we do not have the means to share your work immediately, we will try our best to develop new methods of transmission to accommodate your visions. We request a limit of three submissions per author.

Glosses

As mentioned above, each text is paired with a critical response, or “gloss,” extending the argument or view of each imagined theatre in new directions. You are welcome to submit both a theatre and its gloss if you would like. You are also welcome to submit independent glosses that respond to previously published texts; in this instance, please let us know which text you are referencing. Otherwise, once a theatre is accepted the IT editorial team will help you find a gloss writer to respond to your work.

How to submit

All submissions should include contact information, a brief contributor’s bio, and the word “submission” in the title of the email.

Please send your work as an attachment in one of the following formats:

• Word document (.doc) files
• Rich Text Format (.rtf) files
• Text (.txt) files
• Portable Document Format (.pdf) files
• JPEG, TIFF, PNG for image files

There are no submission fees, publication fees, or page charges for this journal. All work must be original; copyrighted images or media will not be published.

For more information, please write info@imaginedtheatres.com.

Editor

Daniel Sack

University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Editorial Board

Natalie Alvarez

Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

Patrick Anderson

University of California-San Diego, USA

Joseph Cermatori

Skidmore College, USA

Broderick Chow

The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK

Augusto Corrieri

University of Sussex, UK

Ricardo Dominguez

University of California-San Diego, USA

Peter Eckersall

City University of New York, USA

Kyle Gillette

Trinity University, USA

Helena Grehan

Murdoch University, Australia

Matthew Goulish

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA

Nicola Gunn

Performance maker, Australia

Carla Harryman

Eastern Michigan University, USA

Jen Harvie

Queen Mary University of London, UK

Lin Hixson

Performance maker, USA

Rachel Joseph

Trinity University, USA

Petra Kuppers

University of Michigan, USA

Claudia La Rocco

Poet and Critic, USA

Megan Lewis

Colorado State University, USA

Michael McMillan

London College of Fashion, UK

John Muse

University of Chicago, USA

Jennifer Parker-Starbuck

Royal Holloway University of London, UK

Tina Post

University of Chicago, USA

VK Preston

Concordia University, Canada

Jack Isaac Pryor

Penn State Abington, USA

Rebecca Schneider

Brown University, USA

Aaron C. Thomas

Florida State University, USA

Caroline Wake

University of New South Wales, Australia

Fintan Walsh

Birkbeck University of London, UK

Isaiah Wooden

Swarthmore College, USA