2025 Article Submission
Window will open Monday, March 24, 2025,
and will close Monday, June 30, 2025.
Please make sure that essays and book reviews adhere to the JFA Submission, Accessibility and Sensitivity Review Handbook and JFA In-House Style Guide before submission to journal@fantastic-arts.org. Please wait until this submission window closes before querying about review status.
JFAs-Submission-Accessibility-and-Sensitivity-Handbook
and
Current JFA In-House Style Guide
Subject Matter
Like the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts from which it was generated, JFA welcomes papers on all aspects of the fantastic in world literatures and media, as well as interdisciplinary approaches including African/Diaspora Studies, anthropology, area studies, critical game studies, disability studies, future studies, gender studies, history, Indigenous studies, music, philosophy, political science, postcolonial studies, psychology, queer studies, religious studies, science and technology studies, and sociology. All papers are made available in English. Those interested in publishing in other languages in addition to English are asked to inquire with our Acquisitions Editor at jfa.editor@fantastic-arts.org with the subject line “Languages.”
Submissions should contain a more in-depth discussion than a conference-length paper and demonstrate a grasp of current scholarship on the subject. The length of articles generally varies from 3,500-9,000 words and ranges from 15-35 pages.
Submissions are peer-reviewed in accordance with our peer review statement and the BIPOC Anti-Racist Statement on Scholarly Reviewing Practices. If submissions are flagged at any point of the review process for the risk of promulgating potentially misrepresentative, stereotypical, ableist, or racist views, contributors will be asked to address these problems before the review process can continue.
An accessibility or subject reviewer can recommend a final rejection, which will be upheld by the Journal. Please be aware that there is an upper limit of three review rejections of an essay, even without a reviewer’s request for a final rejection, that will nevertheless result in a final rejection. This means that if an essay does not pass an accessibility and sensitivity or subject review, the submission may only be revised and submitted twice more before the Journal‘s final rejection. Please pay careful attention to feedback from any and all anonymized reviews. Be aware that requests for revision are alternatives to final rejection. Please respect and leave in place editorial revisions reviewers may have made for you. Should you wish to discuss revisions, immediately contact the Acquisitions and Reviews Editor-in-Chief at jfa.acquisitions@fantastic-arts.org. Please also be aware that compromising your or a reviewer’s anonymity will also result in an immediate final rejection of the essay.
JFA also publishes reviews of scholarly works addressing the fantastic, broadly construed. Reviews of fiction are limited to reissues of speculative works with new introductions and scholarly apparatuses, and speculative works with the potential to impact scholarship in the genre. Books and other media received are advertised on the IAFA discussion list (which can be subscribed to through the IAFA homepage at www.iafa.org), and IAFA members are encouraged to suggest titles for review. Questions and suggestions may be addressed to the Acquisitions Department through Submissions Editor-in-Chief Tedd Hawks at journal@fantastic-arts.org with the subject line including the phrase “Book Review.”
Formatting the Manuscript
Since the refereeing process is anonymous, the author’s name should not appear anywhere on the text file itself, including the notes. No title page is needed. However, an abstract of 100-150 words should be included with each submission.
Please ensure that all citations and the Works Cited entries are in current MLA style. Please do not use automatically generated notes; end notes (only) must be entered manually. A paper that doesn’t meet our printing parameters can take many hours to adjust. To avoid needless changes and delays, it is best to use our guidelines from the start. For complete guidelines, please refer to the Submission, Accessibility and Sensitivity Review Handbook (see below). In case of conflicting instructions, defer to the Submission, Accessibility and Sensitivity Review Handbook.
Contributors are responsible for acquiring all permissions to quote and/or use illustrations that accompany their article, and for paying (or arranging to have their institutions pay) all usage fees, including copyright.
Submitting
All submissions should be copied to Submissions Editor-in-Chief Tedd Hawks at journal@fantastic-arts.org. Scholarly articles are processed through the department of the JFA‘s Acquisitions and Reviews Editor-in-Chief, Novella Brooks de Vita, jfa.acquisitions@fantastic-arts.org. Book reviews are solicited, however the journal’s Submissions Editor-in-Chief Tedd Hawks may be contacted for information on books available for review and to suggest books for review.
PLEASE NOTE
If you have submitted an article or other correspondence to the JFA’s acquisitions email and have not yet heard back, please resend your query to both jfa.acquisitions@fantastic-arts (dot) org and journal@fantastic-arts (dot) org. Thank you for your interest.