Call for Papers

2024-10-04

Plurality, a student-run interdisciplinary peer-reviewed intersectional feminist academic journal. We are looking for people to submit their proposals/papers for our second issue!

The theme for our second issue is “Witness” and our submissions are open until October 13th 11:59pm. This would be a great chance for you to publish your writing to a peer-reviewed journal, and experience what it's like to go through the journal publishing process. We encourage authors to have a flexible approach to the theme and use their own interpretation of it. To see example prompts our editors have developed click here.

We are looking for submissions for 6 different sections: 

  • Philosophy and Divinity 
  • Art and Literature
  • Social Sciences {i.e. Politics and IR, Linguistics, Sociology, etc.}
  • History and Classics
  • Law
  • Miscellaneous Musings

We accept academic essays (max 3000 words). For our 'Musings' section we accept more essays more rooted in personal experience, or opinion-based pieces. They can been essays you have submitted for a course assessment before, they just cannot have been previously published. We also accept proposals which are outlines of an essay you would want to develop for all our sections. If submitting a proposal please include: title, main claim, 400-600 word outline of your argument, list of at least 3 relevant sources. To see example proposals head to our LinkTree.

To submit a proposal or essay send your submissions via email (pluralityjournal@gmail.com) with the subject line ‘Submission for Second Issue’. You must submit two documents. A cover letter which includes: your name, institution, title of your submission, 150-300 word abstract. Along with your anonymised essay or proposal.

Formatting, please format your submission accordingly:

  • 12-point font
  • Times New Roman, or equivalent easily-readable font
  • 1-inch margins
  • Referencing style: Chicago (OSCALA also accepted for Law)

If you have any questions about submissions or about Plurality in general feel free to send us an email (pluralityjournal@gmail.com) or contact us on Instagram (@pluralityjournal).