We now invite submissions to the Oxford Political Review’s 14th issue, under the theme of ‘Fictions & Narratives’.
For this issue, we invite contributions which consider the ways in which politics occurs through forms of fiction and narrative. Some potential topics might include:
- Political framing and storytelling
- Literature and politics
- Poetics of power
- Representation
- Legal fictions
The deadline for submissions is 20 September 2024. Submissions should be emailed to submissions@oxfordpoliticalreview.com along with a short 1-2 sentence bio of the author.
In general, we are looking for submissions that take the following format:
- Short op-ed style articles of around 800 words
- Book reviews and review essays of no more than 1,500 words
- Long-form articles consisting of no more than 2,000 words
- Interviews of no more than 2,000 words
For more information on our submission guidelines, please follow this link. Pieces that do not adhere to our style guide will be rejected.
Typically, we have more submissions than we can accept. If we like your submission but cannot accept it for the print issue, we will publish it separately online.
Potential Books for Review
- Frederic Jameson, Inventions of a Present (Verso, 2024)
- Pankaj Mishra, Literature at the End of History (Verso, 2024)
- Peter Boxall, The Possibility of Literature (Cambridge, 2024)
- Hayden White, Ethics of Narrative, ed. Robert Doran, 2 vols (Cornell, 2022-24)