CFP: Teaching Children’s Literature and Reading for Fun at University
Journal of Literary Education: Monographic issue.
Guest editors Mariona Graell Martín, Maria Pujol Valls, UIC (Universitat Internacional de Catalunya)
Article submission deadline: 30 May 2025
Website: https://turia.uv.es/index.php/JLE/announcement/view/411
Submission and further information: https://turia.uv.es/index.php/JLE/index
For additional information: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1ATcF57wJp/
CFP: “Crime in Children’s Literature”
Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature
Deadline: 15 August 2025
Submissions: Full papers should be submitted to the editor, Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang (chrysogonus.siddha.malilang@mau.se), and guest editor Vera Veldhuizen (v.n.veldhuizen@rug.nl)
Website: http://www.ibby.org/bookbird
For more information : https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18djnmZbHp/
CFP: “Children in the Archives”
Special issue of Children & Society
Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2025
Deadline for full papers: 30 September 2025
Email: Elizabeth.Nelson@glasgow.ac.uk
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/10990860/call-for-papers/si-2025-000286
For more information : https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16KcKptdSA/
CFP:
The Biography Reframed: Historical Roots, Contemporary Trends, and Multimodal Narratives for Young Readers
Special issue of Strenae – Recherches sur les livres et objets culturels de l’enfance
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2025
Email: strenae@afreloce.fr
Website: https://journals.openedition.org/strenae/11537
For more information : https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1JnCvPPs9E/
CFP: “The Pitfalls of Good Intentions”
Edited by Élodie Malanda, Suzanne van der Beek, and Jessaline Tanjung
Malmö University Press
Deadline for abstracts: 1 November 2024
Deadline for chapters: 1 May 2025
Email: Élodie Malanda (e.malanda@tilburguniversity.edu) or Suzanne van der Beek
(s.e.vdrbeek@tilburguniversity.edu).
For any queries or further information: please contact Élodie Malanda (e.malanda@tilburguniversity.edu) or Suzanne van der Beek
(s.e.vdrbeek@tilburguniversity.edu).
For more details : https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DYGiVW4a3/
CFP: Ink and Imagination: Exploring Children’s Comic
Graduate Comics Organization at the University of Florida
5-7 April 2024
Deadline: 8th January 2024
Email: gco@english.ufl.edu
Website:
CFP: ACLiSA Feature Series: Fantasy in South Asian KidLit
Submission deadline: 31 October 2024
Email:aclisa.contact@gmail.com
Website:
https://aclisa.in/2024/09/30/cfp-aclisa-feature-series-fantasy-in-south-asian-kidlit/
For more information : https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18r7spJ1B5/
CFP: Diversity Committee of the Children’s Literature Association
“One Day and Someday and Now”: Exploring Time in Diverse Youth Literatures
Virtual Conference, June 9-14, 2025
Submission deadline for proposals: November 11th, 2024
Email: capshaw@uconn.edu
For more information : https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15hMYQPoMg/
CFP: 4th International Symposium and Workshops for Early Career Researchers in
Children’s Literature
Children’s Literature for Understanding the Past, Shaping the Present, and
Determining the Future
University of Wrocław (Poland)
Date: 19-20 March 2025
Deadline for proposals: 30 November 2024
Website: https://cbldm.uwr.edu.pl/wydarzenia-2/warsztaty/
Email: elzbieta.jamroz-stolarska@uwr.edu.pl
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1WbYh8bhQK/
CFP: Children’s Literature Assembly Online Research Conference
Illuminating Children’s Literature Research in Theory and Practice
Mary Frances Early College of Education at the University of Georgia
Date: February 21, 2025
Deadline for abstracts: September 27, 2024
Website for abstracts:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf2xdrihb3lq54jEj5_m_LjqWuqFuxytF0Yi
owuRU3RYGWD7A/viewform
Website: https://www.childrensliteratureassembly.org/conference.html
Contact: Dr. Xenia Hadjioannou xuh@psu.edu
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Do you conduct children’s literature research? Submit a session or individual
proposal using our online form. A variety of theoretical and methodological
approaches are welcomed and encouraged.
DEADLINE: Friday, September 27, 2024
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION FORM:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf2xdrihb3lq54jEj5_m_LjqWuqFuxytF0Yi
owuRU3RYGWD7A/viewform
QUESTIONS? CONTACT:
Dr. Xenia Hadjioannou: xuh@psu.edu
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1FPXvuPWQt/
CFP: “The Pitfalls of Good Intentions”
Edited by Élodie Malanda, Suzanne van der Beek, and Jessaline Tanjung
Malmö University Press
Deadline for abstracts: 1 November 2024
Deadline for chapters: 1 May 2025
Email: Élodie Malanda (e.malanda@tilburguniversity.edu) or Suzanne van der Beek
(s.e.vdrbeek@tilburguniversity.edu).
For any queries or further information: please contact Élodie Malanda
(e.malanda@tilburguniversity.edu) or Suzanne van der Beek
(s.e.vdrbeek@tilburguniversity.edu).
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15WZWGkTxn/
CFP: YA Literature, Media, & Culture Today
Young Adult Studies Association conference
Online
Date: 4-8 November 2024
Deadline for proposals: 30 June 2024
Website:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/165SZxIZ4j0CUWzBxf3_YikAEM1TZP4XsZORi
b2-XvT0
Email: yasaconference2024@gmail.com
Email: submit.ubc.conference@gmail.com.
Website: https://macl.arts.ubc.ca/
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BremtDxSR/
CFP: “Storytelling through Images: the Role of Visuals in Children’s and Young Adult
Literature”
THE 2 ND BAIA MARE CONFERENCE ON LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN AND
YOUNG ADULTS
the Baia Mare University Centre of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Date: 12-14 June 2024
Deadline for proposals: 25 March 2024
Email: Assistant Professor Luminita TODEA – luminitatodea@yahoo.com
For more information : https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15zdVccp1p/
CFP: Call for papers for a hybrid conference on “Care, Community, and Hope in
Children’s and YA Literature” happening on 6 June.
See the PDF here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FJ5CinMo9fytZaLP36o4Gli_pRrzrh90/view?usp=drive
_link
For details : https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1LfhSDkEDp/
CFP: Transnational Turns in Children’s Literature
International Research in Children’s Literature 18.3 (2025)
Deadline for full manuscripts (7000 words): 1 April 2024
Email: guest editors Emily Murphy Emily.Murphy@newcastle.ac.uk, Xu David
77david@163.com , and journal editor Roxanne Harde rharde@ualberta.ca
For more information:https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18VjQTkJS1/
CFP: “Beyond Borders: Trends in World Children’s Literature and Children’s Literature in
Translation”
Student Graduate Conference – Master of Arts in Children’s Literature (MACL)
University of British Columbia, Unceded traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓ əm
(Musqueam) Vancouver, Canada
Friday 21st June – Saturday 22nd June 2024
Deadline: 10 March 2024
Email: submit.ubc.conference@gmail.com.
Website: https://macl.arts.ubc.ca/
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19pYW2dQJk/
CFP: Accessibility Committee 2024 Conference Hybrid Poster/Roundtable Session
“Bending the Clock: Applying Crip Time to Practice in Teaching and Studying
Children’s and Young Adult Literature”
ChLA Conference “Looking Back, Looking Forward: 50 Years of ChLA”
30 May – 1 June 2024
Madison, Wisconsin
Deadline: 1 March 2024
Email: accessibility@childlitassn.org
Website: https://www.childlitassn.org/2024-annual-conference
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1B41JGjpHL/
● CFP: 2024 Taiwan Children’s Literature Research Association (TCLRA) International
Conference: Kids and Adults Allowed: Children’s Literature for Everyone
Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan
23 November 2024
Deadline: 25 February 2024
Email: tclra2024@gmail.com
Website: http://english.scu.edu.tw/tclra2024
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19Gkd8QGn6/
· Conference Website: http://english.scu.edu.tw/tclra2024
● CFP: annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and
Publishing [SHARP] – “Global Book Cultures: Materialities, Collaborations, Access”
University of Reading, Berkshire, UK. 1-5 July 2024
Deadline: Friday, January 5th, 2024
Email: lfs19c2@reading.ac.uk.
Website:
https://research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing/event/sharp-conferen
ce-2024/
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1F6GJVu7dQ/
● Check out this fantastic CFP for an edited volume with Routledge :
https://fanstudies.org/2023/10/18/cfp-girls-and-young-womens-textual-cultures-across-histor
y-imitation-adaptation-transformation/?fbclid=IwY2xjawG2F3xleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHR4f3hj
Qxp0TUeIT5ql-lbtIJrXW7VUbQcZ8ajkbPf5eTNU1OzWc5jfzTA_aem_7dlEbRB8161fDlumjSF
63Q
For more information : https://www.facebook.com/share/p/13zAe8hqMX/
● CFP: The 27th Biennial International Research Society for Children’s Literature
(IRSCL) Congress
Borders, Migration and Liminality in Children’s Literature
Deadline: September 2024
Location: the University of Salamanca (Spain)
Website: https://irscl2025salamanca.usal.es
For more information : https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AWq3Ayt5M/
● CFP: IBBY 2024. Join the Revolution! Giving every child good books
Date: 30/08-1/09 2024, Trieste, Italy
Website: https://www.ibbycongress2024.org
Deadline: 15 January 2024
For more information : https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1GH5vcQp7m/
● GCO is excited to announce our 2024 conference! The complete Call for Papers is
linked here:
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/10/17/ink-and-imagination-exploring-c
hildrens-comics
● CFP: Girls’ and Young Women’s Textual Cultures Across History: Imitation,
Adaptation, Transformation
Edited collection to be submitted to Routledge’s Children’s Literature and Culture
Book Series (estimated publication 2025).
Deadline for proposals (350 words): 31 January 2024
Deadline for full articles (7000 words): 1 June 2024
Email: editors Lois Burke (l.m.burke@tilburguniversity.edu), Jennifer Duggan
(jennifer.duggan@usn.no) and Edel Lamb (e.lamb@qub.ac.uk).
To be emailed to editors Lois Burke (l.m.burke@tilburguniversity.edu),
Jennifer Duggan (jennifer.duggan@usn.no) and Edel Lamb (e.lamb@qub.ac.uk).
For more information : https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18pGEq7aUN/
CFP: The Child and the Book Conference – Rouen 2024:
Making, Building, Mending: Creativity and Craftsmanship in Children’s Literature and
Culture
Deadline for submissions: 31 October 2023
2-4 May 2024, University of Rouen Normandy, Campus Pasteur
Email: cbc2024@univ-rouen.fr
.
Website: https://cbc2024.sciencesconf.org/
For more information : https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EEwfGvaJv/
● CFP : Childhood, adolescence, and technology – exploring the culture of/for
Generation Z and Generation Alpha .
https://www.journals.polon.uw.edu.pl/index.php/dlk/announcement/view/33?fbclid=Iw
Y2xjawG2GfZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZ7UYL5WVYMUIrEw2yh5J9_JM4pI45AUXb9
VR7qCvGNCp4tjz5wdRWkhOQ_aem_DTsobQ9hqdMuJgY8Xr5IdQ
● CFP: Crip Kid Lit:
Critical Approaches to Disability in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Media
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom and Online
19 April 2024
Deadline for Submissions: 1 November 2023
Email: cripkidlit@gmail.com
For More information :
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DuJmzVSGd/
● CFP: Young Adult + Series + Romance
Deadline for submissions: 1 December 2023
The Journal of Popular Romance Studies (JPRS)
Email: aallen36@emich.edu
Website: https://www.jprstudies.org/
For more information : https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14ViqNMpD9/
● CFP: Accessibility Committee Panel “Bending the Clock: Crip Time in Children’s and
Young Adult Literature”
2024 Children’s Literature Association Conference
May 30-June 1, 2024
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Deadline for proposals: 15 October 2023
ChLA Conference website: https://www.childlitassn.org/2024-annual-conference
Accessibility Committee Panel at the upcoming Children’s Literature Association
(ChLA) Conference in 2024. The theme of the panel is “Bending the Clock: Crip Time
in Children’s and Young Adult Literature” and we will be accepting 150-200 word
proposals and CVs sent to accessibility@childlitassn.org
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EG4iu4vS9/
● CFP: ChLA International Committee Focus Panel “Memory”
2024 Children’s Literature Association (ChLA) Conference
Dates: May 30-June 1, 2024
Location: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Deadline for abstracts (corrected): 30 September 2023
“ChLA 2024 Themed Panel Submission” to lara.saguisag@nyu.edu
by September 30, 2023, 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Standard Time). One abstract will
receive the Vivian Yenika-Agbaw International Scholarship Grant towards conference
expenses and two other abstracts will receive travel grants to help to offset expenses
related to the conference. Authors of proposals selected for the panel will be notified
by October 8, 2023. The International Committee encourages those scholars who arenot selected for the “Memory” panel to submit an abstract through the general Call for
Proposals [https://chla.memberclicks.net/2024-annual-conference]
so that international children’s literature will be featured in other panels at the
conference. The deadline for general submission to the ChLA 2023 Annual
Conference is October 15, 2023.
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AepruqyDC/
● CALL FOR PAPERS: “We’re Going Virtual”: A Children’s Literature Association
Quarterly Special Issue
deadline for submissions: November 1, 2023
full name / name of organization: Kyle Eveleth / Otterbein University
contact email: eveleth1@otterbein.edu
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18MT3X6sLW/
CFP for ACLiSA :
Our next Feature Series is on magazines and periodicals!
Send us your articles quickly!
Facebook post link:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/188s7wmQu3/?mibextid=oFDknk
● CFP: The Child and the Book Conference “Making, Building, Mending: Creativity and
Craftsmanship in Children’s Literature and Culture”
DATES: 2-4 May 2024
LOCATION: University of Rouen Normandy, Campus Pasteur
DEADLINE: 20 October 2023 to cbc2024@univ-rouen.fr
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EEwfGvaJv/
● CFP: Writing a British Childhood in a Global Context? Critical Perspectives on Enid
Blyton
Dates: 25-27 September 2024
University of Potsdam, Germany
Proposal Deadline: 15th of August 2023
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19rNdmdGzQ/
● CFP: At the Same Table: The Position and Status of Research in Children’s
Literature and Culture
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ivana Lučića 3, Zagreb, Croatia
Dates: 23–25 November 2023
Extended Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2023We invite you to submit 250-word presentation abstracts and up to 5 keywords via the official
conference email: ziskonf.hidk@gmail.com . The abstract submission deadline is 15 May
2023. The authors will be informed of the outcome of their submissions by 15 June 2023.
For
more information: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1E3bsPxL1e/