Special Issue Proposal Guidelines

Post45 Journal welcomes proposals for special issues that advance the study of post-World War II American literature and culture — broadly conceived — through innovative methods and questions, or research on understudied subjects.

Preliminary Query

Before submitting a full proposal, prospective special issue editors should contact the co-editors at submissions@post45.org with a preliminary query. These inquiries should be as detailed and robust as possible so the editors can assess the special issue's potential fit for the journal and offer feedback, but need not include full article abstracts or a complete list of contributors.

Once the prospective guest editors have received feedback and a positive response from the journal's co-editors, they can begin to put together a full proposal. We strongly prefer proposals with contributions drawn from a diverse range of scholars — especially those that have solicited authors from outside the editors' immediate professional networks.

Proposal

Special issue proposals should include:

• A title
• Name(s) and short bio(s) of the editor(s)
• A description of the special issue topic, with particular attention to the issue's larger interventions in post-war American literary and cultural studies — and why Post45 Journal is an ideal venue for those interventions (around 400–800 words)
• Article abstracts (around 300 words each), with contributors' names
• A brief explanation of how the editor(s) solicited and selected contributions (2–3 sentences)
• (Optional) names of potential peer reviewers

If Post45 Journal's co-editors approve a special issue proposal, the editorial team will work with the guest editor(s) to plan a process and timeline for peer review and publication. Guest editors are expected to write an introduction, and may also submit an article for inclusion in the issue, subject to the same anonymous peer-review process as other submissions.