THE ASSOCIATION BLOG

CFP: Futures of Crime

20/4/2022

Crime fiction has been evolving rapidly and finding new exciting forms including queer crime fiction and crime fiction by writers of colour. We have also seen the rise of regional noir, of which the booming Northern Irish crime fiction scene is a splendid example.

Deadline: 22 April 2022
Hybrid Event: 20 May 2022

CFP: Framing (Serial) Killing: Changing Narratives

4/4/2022

This conference seeks to re-frame the academic discourses of (serial) killer fictions so that the focus is shifted away from the killer as an anti-hero, and directed towards other characters and audiences of these fictions, their contexts and their current cultural impact.

Deadline: June 15, 2022
Online Conference: November 16-18th, 2022

CFP: Crones, Crime, and the Gothic

29/12/2021

Older women have traditionally been portrayed negatively in folklore, fairy tales, literature and film, for example. Images of witches, evil stepmothers, shrivelled, bitter 'spinsters', and vindictive, bullying women abusing positions of power are rife in Western culture. Yet, perhaps things are changing. A new emphasis on the need to discuss and understand the menopause seems to be at the heart of this.

Conference: Falmouth University UK, 10-11 June 2022
Deadline: 1 April 2021

CFP: Global Histories of Crime Fiction: Redefining a Popular Genre

6/10/2021

Please find below a CFP for a seminar of the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, which will take place at National Taiwan Normal University.

Deadline: October 31, 2021
Conference: 15-18 June 2022

CFP: Special Issue on Cornell Woolrich and Transmedia Noir

28/7/2021

Crime Fiction Studies is preparing a special issue on mystery writer Cornell Woolrich (1903-1968), with a focus on his significance to the transmedia formation of America’s noir imaginary in the 1940s and 1950s. Known to film studies primarily for penning the source story for Hitchcock’s Rear Window, Woolrich was in fact the most heavily adapted contemporary crime author of his era. Yet despite this, his legacy for film noir remains obscured by his literary confrères: Chandler, Hammett, and Cain.

Deadline for abstracts: September 1, 2021
Deadline for full drafts: July 1, 2022

CFP: Lee Child Symposium at UEA

2/7/2021

The University of East Anglia, UK, is proud to announce an international symposium dedicated to the writing of Lee Child, a key figure in contemporary crime fiction, and creator of the world-renowned Jack Reacher series. Childs will be at the conference himself to celebrate the unveiling of his archive and to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Killing Floor.

Deadline for submissions: 1st September 2021
Conference: 1st April 2022

CFP: Investigating True Crime & the Media

15/5/2021

The journalism department at Newcastle University, UK – and Ethical Space invite proposals for papers for a global conference: Investigating True Crime & The Media. Submissions are welcome which explore its rise in popularity in recent years, shifting perceptions and receptions, changing platforms, new understandings. To be held at Newcastle University and online, June 23, 2022. Authors are also invited to submit their papers to peer review to feature in a subsequent winter 2022 special double edition of Ethical Space.

Proposals: Friday, 29 October 2021
Conference: Thursday, 23 June 2022

CFP: Variations of the Metaphysical Detective Story in the French and Francophone World

12/5/2021

Call for submissions for a CUNY Manifold Ebook edited by Iziar de Miguel and Antoine Dechêne dedicated to the "Variations of the Metaphysical Detective Story in the French and Francophone World".

Proposals: September 1st, 2021
Final Essays: January 31st, 2022

CFP: Mean Streets: A Journal of American Crime and Detective Fiction

5/5/2021

Call for submissions for Mean Streets: A Journal of American Crime and Detective Fiction on the topic of "AMERICAN “GOLDEN AGE” MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE FICTION 1920-1945".

Proposals: July 15, 2021
Final essays: December 1, 2021