Call for Papers

Inscription: the Journal of Material Text – Theory, Practice, History launched in 2020, edited by Simon Morris, Gill Partington and Adam Smyth, and published by the artist’s book imprint http://www.informationasmaterial.org in partnership with Leeds Beckett University. It’s been described by the Times Literary Supplement as ‘a shot in the arm for academic publishing’ – ‘each…

Call for Submissions Phyllis Johnson, editor or the 1960s New York magazine-in-a-box Aspen, used the term magazine to hark back to the original meaning of the word as “a storehouse, a cache, a ship laden with stores”‘ from the Arabic makzin, makzan, ‘storehouse’. But what are the implications of framing the book as a container…

Call for Submissions Deadline for completed articles: 1 May 2021 Often dismissed as a flaw or quirk, holes are a common feature of the material text with much to tell us. For book historians they can be a kind of evidence: the pinpricks made by medieval scribes to mark out their page; the stitching holes…

Call for Papers Deadline for completed manuscripts: June 1 2020 The very first edition of a new journal will be launched this September. Inscription is an innovative new journal which addresses the theme of the material text from a range of perspectives, bringing together the critical, historical, theoretical and creative. Inscription will be at home equally in the…