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Slayage Submission Guidelines

The Whedon Studies Association solicits submissions to Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies, a blind-refereed digital journal. Upon being judged appropriate for review, a submission then goes through blind peer review by a minimum of two editorial board members, or two alternate reviewers selected by the editors. The editors, in consultation with the reviewers, decide whether an essay is to be published. Authors should include name and email address at the top of the essay itself, for the convenience of the editors’ record-keeping; the editors will make sure to remove the author’s name and email address before sending the essay to reviewers.
 
Undergraduate students should submit their essays to Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies.
 
The editors welcome proposals (including at least a full paragraph description of the essay and a title) or completed essays of approximately 4,500 to 10,000 words on any aspect of Joss Whedon's many works. (Accepted essays may be lengthened in revision.) All proposals/essays should exhibit strong familiarity with already published Whedon scholarship (see Whedonology). MLA 2016 documentation is preferred; however, the editors will accept a different documentation style should it be justified by the academic discipline framing the paper.
 
The submission should be sent electronically as an e-mail attachment in Word (.doc/.docx) or in Rich Text Format (.rtf). Accepted essayists will be provided with a House Style Sheet; authors may also request to be sent the sheet before submission. Be sure to number paragraphs in the submission: [1], [2], [3], etc. Send the submission to editor Rhonda V. Wilcox at slayage.journal@gmail.com.
 
Please contact the editors with questions.
 
We welcome all kinds of ideas on any aspect of Whedon's texts, including Buffy, Angel, Firefly/Serenity, Dr. Horrible's Sing -Along Blog, Dollhouse, The Cabin in the Woods, Marvel's The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, In Your Eyes, and more.  We are also interested in work on Whedon’s collaborators. In short, we are open to a range of topics focusing on any aspect of the Whedonverses.
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