Axon

Axon: Creative Explorations Number 5

re·cov·er·y 
/riˈkəvərē/
1. A return to a normal state of health, mind, or strength
2. The action or process of regaining possession or control of something stolen or lost

We now invite submissions for the fifth issue of the journal, which will be published in September 2013. The issue’s guiding theme is recovery; in particular, the issue aims to explore a broad range of perspectives on Asia. Alvin Pang is working with the Axon editorial team as a consultant editor on this issue.

Among other themes and topics, we invite contributions that address:

• Pain, convalescence and resilience as a way of apprehending the Asia-Pacific region and its return to the centre of world affairs, in the context of its complex tapestry of historical humiliation, political turmoil, personal suffering, natural disaster, economic imbalance, cultural amnesia.
• The perceived value of literature—e.g. as a form of intellectual, moral and spiritual tonic, or opposing questions about its material or utilitarian worth.
• The role of the marketplace in defining or challenging received notions of cultural identity and expression.
• The challenges and opportunities of language and translation.
• Dynamic, diverse and different forms of cultural engagement—with, within and across Asia—that deserve wider attention.

Contributions that are off-theme, though still in line with the scope of the journal, are also welcome.

We also welcome papers that range into the fields of the visual and/or performing arts.

Submissions: scholarly articles, essays and interviews, visual, sonic and other digital media are invited. Final revised articles, papers, essays and interviews (including endnotes) will be between 3,000 and 6,000 words in length. All scholarly contributions are double-blind peer reviewed. (Please note that while Axon publishes poetry, all poetry contributions will be directly solicited by the journal’s editors.)

Submissions should be previously unpublished, although works previously published in a workshop or conference proceedings may be submitted for consideration if they have been substantially revised.

Please contribute by entering your email address and writing a message in the fields below. Deadline: 31 May 2013.

Axon: Creative Explorations Number 6

We now invite submissions for the sixth issue of the journal, which will be published in March 2014. The broad theme of the issue is poetry: writing, thinking, making, but contributions that are off-theme, though still in line with the scope of the journal, are also welcome. Dr Lucy Dougan is working with the Axon editorial team as a consultant editor on this issue.

We invite contributions that address:

• Making poetry
• Publishing poetry
• Producing poetry: the role/s of poetry organisations
• Poetry and performance
• Poetry, collaboration and interdisciplinary activity
• Poetry and technology
• Poetry and creative practice
• Poetry and research practice

We welcome papers that range into the fields of the visual and/or performing arts.

Submissions: scholarly articles, essays and interviews, visual, sonic and other digital media are invited. Final revised articles, papers, essays and interviews (including endnotes) will be between 3,000 and 6,000 words in length. All scholarly contributions are double-blind peer reviewed. (Please note that while Axon publishes poetry, all poetry contributions will be directly solicited by the journal’s editors.)

Submissions should be previously unpublished, although works previously published in a workshop or conference proceedings may be submitted for consideration if they have been substantially revised.

Please contribute by entering your email address and writing a message in the fields below. Deadline: 30 September 2013.

Axon: Creative Explorations Number 7

We now invite submissions for the seventh issue of the journal, which will be published in September 2014. The theme of the issue is assemblage. The issue seeks to explore the theoretical uses (and abuses) of the concept of assemblage as an approach to the recombination of cultural materials. Dr Ana Sanchez Laws isworking with the Axon editorial team as a consultant editor on this issue.

We welcome contributions on the following topics:

• Originality – multiplicity - authorship in a binary world: what can assemblage theory offer us?
• Assemblage in museums, libraries and archives
• Digital assemblage, mash-ups, data visualisations
• Visual assemblage, documentary’s ‘collage junk’, video art, film remakes
• Sonic Assemblage, remix practices
• The politics and poetics of assemblage

We welcome papers that range into the fields of the visual and/or performing arts.

Submissions: scholarly articles, essays and interviews, visual, sonic and other digital media are invited. Final revised articles, papers, essays and interviews (including endnotes) will be between 3,000 and 6,000 words in length. All scholarly contributions are double-blind peer reviewed. (Please note that while Axon publishes poetry, all poetry contributions will be directly solicited by the journal’s editors.)

Submissions should be previously unpublished, although works previously published in a workshop or conference proceedings may be submitted for consideration if they have been substantially revised.

Please contribute by entering your email address and writing a message in the fields below. Deadline: 31 March 2014.

Axon: Creative Explorations Number 8

We now invite submissions for the eighth issue of the journal, which will be published in March 2015. This issue focuses on the theme of creative cities. The issue aims to explore the conjunction of creativity and the urban in its varying manifestations. Erin Hinton and Shane Strange are working as consultant editors on this issue.

We invite contributions that address:

• The poetics of urban space and time
• Practicing the urban - the formal and informal ‘making’ of cities.
• Creativity and the ‘everyday’
• Cities and the adequacy of representation
• Interpreting cities
• Creative labour and ‘creative cities’
• Creative cities and the production of culture
• Creative spaces
• Cities as sites of  disruption
• Cities as sites of ‘otherness’ (experimental, utopian, imaginary, virtual)

Submissions: scholarly articles, essays and interviews, visual (including photography, film and video), sonic and other web-based or digital media are invited. Final revised articles, papers, essays and interviews (including endnotes) will be between 3,000 and 6,000 words in length. All scholarly contributions are double-blind peer reviewed. (Please note that while Axon publishes poetry, all poetry contributions will be directly solicited by the journal’s editors.)

Submissions should be previously unpublished, although works previously published in a workshop or conference proceedings may be submitted for consideration if they have been substantially revised.

Please contribute by entering your email address and writing a message in the fields below. Deadline: 30 September 2014.

Articles, essays, papers and other scholarly contributions are peer reviewed. The reviewing process is double blind, so that neither author(s) nor reviewers should know of the others’ identities at any time.

In producing a research-based paper, authors should be drawing on a sound framework of scholarship relevant to the paper’s topic, rather than purely on personal experience and/or anecdotal evidence, although some personal and/or anecdotal material is a legitimate part of many good papers. Papers for Axon are welcome to take a creative or lateral approach to their topic, or to mix more than one genre of writing, or to incorporate images or other graphic work. Papers are expected to make a contribution that extends the current literature in the field. Final revised articles, papers, essay and interviews (including endnotes) will be a maximum of 6,000 words in length.

The journal does not, as a rule, publish short fiction or excerpts from longer fictional works, but creative work other than poems will be accepted for refereeing if they make a distinctive contribution to knowledge that extends the current scholarly literature in the field and are accompanied by a 250-word exegetical statement for publication. The statement should indicate the research significance of the creative piece and will draw on a sound framework of methodology and scholarship relevant to the work’s topic.

All poetry published in Axon will be solicited by the journal’s editors. Unsolicited contributions of poetry will not be read or acknowledged.

All papers and other contributions to Axon: Creative Explorations will be vetted for final acceptance by the journal’s editors. If you are unfamiliar with the kind and quality of contributions, including the scholarly standards of papers, published in the journal, please read recent issues.

• Author-date system in-text, with a listing of works cited
• Endnotes, not footnotes (please use minimally and include in word count)

Examples:

Books
DeLillo, D 2001 The body artist, London: Picador

Book chapters
Woods, C 2006 ‘Writing, textual culture and the humanities’, in N Krauth and T Brady (eds) Creative writing: theory beyond practice, Teneriffe: Post Pressed, 121-135

Print journal article
Eickelkamp, U 2010 ‘Children and youth in Aboriginal Australia: an overview of the literature’, Anthropological Forum 20: 2, 147-66

Magazine article
DeLillo, D 2001 ‘In the ruins of the future’, Harper’s magazine, December, 33-40

Online sources
Krauth, N 2002 ‘The preface as exegesis’ TEXT 6: 1, at
http://www.textjournal.com.au/april02/krauth.htm (accessed 12 March 2011)

Kulikowski, M 2007 ‘Mayday 23: world population becomes more urban than rural’, NC State University News Services, 22 May, at http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/2007/may/104.html (accessed 9 September 2011)

Kroll J 2004 ‘The exegesis and the gentle reader/writer’ TEXT Special Issue Website Series No 3, at http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue3/kroll.htm (accessed 10 July 2011)

McEwan, I 2001 ‘Only love and then oblivion’, The Guardian special report: terrorism in the US, at www.guardian.co.uk/usterrorism, 15 September (accessed 17 September 2011)

Zizek, S 2001 ‘Welcome to the desert of the real!’

http://web.mit.edu/cms/reconstructions/interpretations/desertreal.html, 15 September (accessed 19 October 2011)

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