Call for Submissions
Proposals due January 30, 2009
Documentary Expression and the American South
Southern Spaces (www.southernspaces.org) invites proposals for essays, photography, and multimedia projects about documentary expression in the various regions and places of the U.S. South. We encourage submissions that combine innovative scholarship and commentary about documentary work with ideas for digital media elements such as images, maps, audio, or video. We also welcome the submission of original documentary projects. For this series, Southern Spaces will to publish projects that explore documentary expression in audio, film, art, photography, and other media. Original pieces might examine the work of one or more documentarians; analyze coverage of particular persons, places, or events; or compare the treatment of ideas or images across several documentary works, genres, or decades. To engage with space and place, projects might examine geographically specific sites, imagined geographies related to the U.S. South, migrations and displacements, or relationships between places. |
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From Scott Matthews's essay, John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky |
400-600 word proposals should include:
a description of the major ideas, arguments, and sources for the project
the estimated page length of project text
a list of multimedia (photo, audio, video) components
a brief statement about why this work is a strong fit for this series
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All proposals should be sent to Assistant Managing Editor Frances Abbott by January 30, 2009. Please visit our submissions page for more information about developed projects or contact us with ideas, questions, or concerns. We are willing to vet ideas or discuss proposed topics and multimedia possibilities. Submissions proposed on or before January 30 will be considered for fall 2009 publication as part of the Southern Spaces Documentary Expression and the American South series. |
From image series for Earl Dotter's photo essay, Coalfield Generations |
Realizing that few scholars are experts in website design, Southern Spaces will work with authors, photographers, artists, and videographers in the process of producing image, sound, and video files for submissions. The Editorial Board and staff are committed to assisting scholars at varying levels of technological proficiency.
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From Terry Easton's essay, Geographies of Hope and Despair:
Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers |
