Women's Writing

This call for papers for the first special issue of Women’s Writing dedicated to Irish writers invites submissions on innovative topics from the medieval period to the late-nineteenth century. We particularly welcome intersectional approaches, considering gender alongside class, race, ethnicity, nationality, sexuality, religion, and age.

Topics may include but are not limited to:

• Life Writing
• Cultural responses to medical and scientific developments
• Transnational and transcultural encounters
• Nature writing and ecology
• Publication histories
• Archipelagic perspectives
• Women writing women’s bodies
• Travel writing
• Collaborative projects and coterie writing
• Manuscript circulation
• Fable and folklore
• Considerations of empire, colonialism and enslavement
• Correspondence networks
• Literary and cultural retellings

The deadline for abstracts of 300 words in length is 1 August 2024 and prospective contributors are asked to include a 200 word bio with the submission. Enquiries and abstracts should be sent to Lucy Cogan ([email protected]) and Amy Prendergast ([email protected]). If accepted, completed articles of 6,000-7,000 words in length must be received by 16 June 2025.

Instructions for Authors