Submission Guidelines
for papers, panels and seminars
We invite panel, paper and seminar topic proposals on women’s poetry since 1900, including but not limited to the direction of scholarship about women’s poetry; producing, accessing and editing texts; pedagogical approaches to experimental writing; neglected issues in women’s poetry; the work of individual poets or clusters of poets; spirituality and religion; and the separatist anthology issue.
- • Individual paper submissions should be limited to abstracts of 300 words. Please include your name and contact information.
- • Panel proposals should include a rationale as well as paper abstracts of no more than 300 words each. Please include the name and contact information of each participant.
- • Seminar proposals should name the panel organizer(s), state a rationale for the topic, explain the discussion format plans and specify an ideal number of participants.
Submission Deadline: May 16, 2008
Send submissions electronically to womenspoetry@yahoo.com or by mail to:
Women Poets
English Department
Duquesne University
600 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh PA 15282
Conference Organizers Elisabeth Joyce, Linda Kinnahan, Elizabeth Savage, Ellen McGrath Smith Questions may be directed to womenspoetry@yahoo.com.
