Slayage Submission Guidelines
The Whedon Studies Association solicits submissions to Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies, a blind-refereed, open-access 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.
There is no submission or publication fee for authors.
Please contact the Editor 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.
Authors' Rights
Should your article be published in Slayage, copyright of the article belongs to the Whedon Studies Association, Inc. However, author(s) may republish the article (at no charge from the Whedon Studies Association, Inc.) in any book primarily written by or edited by the article’s author(s), provided that the author(s) obtain prior written permission from the Editor of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies, and provided that previous publication of the article in said journal is acknowledged in the subsequent publication. The author(s) may also republish the article in any other forum (such as a collection edited by another person), provided that the author(s) request prior written permission from the Editor of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies, and provided that previous publication of the article in said journal is acknowledged in the subsequent publication. In the case that a third party contacts the journal’s editor, the editor or coeditor may, after making a good faith effort to contact the author(s) and failing to do so, grant permission for the third party to reprint the article in question, at the Editor’s discretion. Should the Editor succeed in contacting the author(s) in regard to such a request, the decision will belong to the author(s). Authors are free to update their contact information with the editor and coeditor.
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.
There is no submission or publication fee for authors.
Please contact the Editor 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.
Authors' Rights
Should your article be published in Slayage, copyright of the article belongs to the Whedon Studies Association, Inc. However, author(s) may republish the article (at no charge from the Whedon Studies Association, Inc.) in any book primarily written by or edited by the article’s author(s), provided that the author(s) obtain prior written permission from the Editor of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies, and provided that previous publication of the article in said journal is acknowledged in the subsequent publication. The author(s) may also republish the article in any other forum (such as a collection edited by another person), provided that the author(s) request prior written permission from the Editor of Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies, and provided that previous publication of the article in said journal is acknowledged in the subsequent publication. In the case that a third party contacts the journal’s editor, the editor or coeditor may, after making a good faith effort to contact the author(s) and failing to do so, grant permission for the third party to reprint the article in question, at the Editor’s discretion. Should the Editor succeed in contacting the author(s) in regard to such a request, the decision will belong to the author(s). Authors are free to update their contact information with the editor and coeditor.