Submissions are currently open on Scholar One.
What type of work does Meridians accept?’
Meridians accepts essay, creative, and visual submissions. Guidelines for each type of submission are outlined below.
Authors should note that manuscripts selected for publication will be cataloged into one of the following categories:
ESSAYS are research-based or theoretical scholarly monographs…
COUNTERPOINTS initiate a self-conscious examination of the analytical and political vocabulary of the fields in which feminists work…
IN THE TRENCHES asks where practical application and community activism take women around the world and in what forms these manifest themselves…
CULTUREWORKS will include creative work, interviews with artists, photo or art essays, poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama…
MEMOIRS/TESTIMONIOS analyze the formation of consciousness and examines the production of racial, sexual, and national subjects…
MEDIA MATTERS focus on the debates, meanings, politics, and uses of visual, musical, or cybernet representations in popular culture…
IN THE ARCHIVES will publish documents from institutional or organizational repositories…
INTERVIEWS of and by culture workers, scholars, and activists…
STATE OF THE FIELD considers four to five recent scholarly publications anchored by a common theme related to feminism, race, and transnationalism, and analyzes the way contemporary scholarship fits into existing debates and questions essential to the field…
Essay Submissions:
- All submissions should be typed, double-spaced, 12 pt., Times New Roman font.
- A title page should accompany your manuscript. The title page should contain the author’s name, postal address, phone number, and e-mail address.
- In order to facilitate the anonymous peer-reviewing process the author’s name should not appear on the manuscript, and all references in the text and endnotes that might identify the author should be removed and cited on a separate page.
- Essays should be no longer than 35 pages or 9,000 words.
- An abstract must accompany the manuscript not exceeding 250 words. Manuscripts without abstracts cannot be considered.
- You will be prompted to provide an author bio, publication agreement, and keywords during the submission process.
- Scholarly articles should follow the author-date system outlined in the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition, 2017. In this system, references to works are included in chronological order in the text. The author’s last name and the year of publication are enclosed in parentheses (Davis 1977) and correspond to the alphabetical list of Works Cited at the end of the essay. Page numbers follow the date, preceded by a comma (Garcia 1997, 57). When there are two authors the following format applies: (Chang and Williams 1985, 13); for three authors: (Fulcher, Hernandez, and Spikes 1974); and more than three: (Rashid et al. 1993). If the author is not known, the text reference should substitute the title of the article or book for the author (the title may be shortened, but must include the first word).
- Although Meridians otherwise follows the Chicago Style Manual in all other regards, we do not follow their conventions with regard to capitalization of U.S. ethno-racial categories. Instead, since 2020, it has been our policy to capitalize all of the following – Asian-American, Black, Indigenous, Latino/a/x, MENA, and Native American. Unfortunately, staff turnover and circumstances caused by the pandemic have meant that this policy has not been consistently enacted at Meridians over the past three years, including in this issue. It will be in place, however, as of volume 22, number 2, fall 2023.
Creative Submissions:
Manuscripts of 3-5 poems should be typed and formatted according to genre conventions. Prose and non-fiction manuscripts should be typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman font, and no longer than 25 pages or 7,500 words. Excerpts from longer works will be considered if self-contained. Submit as a Word document.
Visual Submissions:
Submit up to five pieces with 6 x 9 dimensions or dimensions that can be reduced to this size. Please submit visual material as high-resolution TIF files. Visual works must also be publishable in black and white.
Please make sure to review what category you would like to submit to.
