Mapping the Impossible is a brand new open-access student journal
publishing peer-reviewed early-career research into fantasy and the
fantastic.

For more information about the journal and submissions click here>>

https://fantasy-research.gla.ac.uk/index.php/submissions/

Aims and Scope

We welcome submissions from undergraduate and postgraduate students (and
from those who have graduated within the last year) from any higher
education institution. We publish articles on any aspect of fantasy and the
fantastic and any work within this transmedial genre. Increasingly,
students from more established disciplines (including, but not limited to,
Literature Studies, Game Studies, Film and Television Studies, Media
Studies, Philosophy and Theology) elect to write essays on a fantasy
related topic that intersects with their primary discipline.

Robert Maslen defines Fantasy as that which ‘focuses instead on what
certainly did not happen and never could, foregrounding the impossibility
of what it represents.’ While this is only one definition of how fantasy
works, and certainly not definitive, we find ‘representing impossibility’
to be a useful starting point when approaching fantasy, the fantastic, and
the techniques of wider speculative fiction. However, we would like to note
that this is only a starting point. We are open to papers that explore all
different kinds of interpretations and definitions of fantasy across
disciplines and across media.

Our second issue, to be published in March 2022, will be a general issue.
Submissions for this issue are currently open.

Deadline: We operate with a rolling submissions window, meaning that we are
always open to submissions for our general issues.

Mapping the Impossible exclusively accepts academic papers between 3000 and
5000 words in length, including references but excluding bibliographies.
Along with your paper, we ask you to submit a 300-500 word long abstract,
and a 100 word long biography. Please attach these to an email as separate
Word documents, each clearly labelled with your name. For instance:
TerryPratchettSubmission.docx, TerryPratchettAbstract.docx,
TerryPratchettBiography.docx

Please note that we ask for your paper to conform to the Mapping the
Impossible Style Guide
<https://fantasy-research.gla.ac.uk/index.php/style-guide/> when you submit
it. Your paper should also be anonymised as far as possible when you submit
it (except for the file name!), as per our double blind review policy.

When you’re ready to submit, send your email to
[log in to unmask] with the subject line “Submission – [your
name][date of submission]” You will receive a confirmation email within
seven days, to say that we have received your submission.

The board meets at least once a month to discuss submissions, and you
should expect to hear back from us within five weeks.


Kind regards,

Judith Schofield

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