Friday, July 27, 2007

Announcenment

From Ben Peek
The Australian Journal for Critical Review of Speculative Fiction has been shut down.

There simply hasn't been enough response for the project to justify it, and rather than create something that is full of half measures and compromises, we've elected to close it, and to focus on the other projects that we've all got going. Over the years I've seen too many independent projects emerge that should have been shut down in the early stages to want to create something I couldn't, in all honesty, stand behind. If I am part of the creation--at any level--of a project, I have to be able to stand behind it and say, yes, this is something that you can, and should, read. It simply wasn't happening here, so Alisa Krasnostein, Ben Payne, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and myself, have elected to kill it now.

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Status call

Due to lack of interest, we are assessing whether to go ahead with the Academic Journal project or not.

If you were intending to submit something, or know someone who is, to the Australian Journal for Critical Review of Speculative Fiction, please contact me or one of the other editors or the project email address (critreviewspecfic@gmail.com) to let us know of your intentions.


Many thanks

Alisa Krasnostein

Thursday, February 8, 2007

Call for Papers

The Australian Journal for Critical Review of Speculative Fiction invites submissions of essays for its premier issue, to be published late in 2007. The Australian Journal for Critical Review of Speculative Fiction will be an accredited, peer-assessed electronic journal distributed via pdf.

Essays from 3,000 to 5,000 words.

We are interested in rigorous critical examinations of any facet of literature or other media within the speculative fiction genre. We would like to see works which look at aspects of the long history of science fiction, fantasy and horror, as well as those which deal with recent works and movements within the field. We welcome critical work on speculative fiction throughout the world.

Please submit essay proposals including a 400-word abstract, and a bio detailing your academic and/or critical background. Do not submit complete essays unless requested.

Proposals may be emailed to: critreviewspecfic@gmail.com

Deadline for papers: September 1, 2007

The Australian Journal for Critical Review of Speculative Fiction will be published by Twelfth Planet Press, and administered by the AJCRSF Board, consisting of Ms Alisa Krasnostein, Dr Kathryn Linge, Dr Benjamin Payne, Dr Benjamin Peek and Ms Tansy Rayner Roberts.