Tolkien-focused calls for papers - conferences/seminars and publications

Tolkien scholarship and research: Calls for papers for publication and presentation at conferences/seminars

List of Publishers, Organisations and Events:

• Academia Lunare: For Speculative Non-Fiction: https://www.lunapresspublishing.com/academialunare
• Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic: https://fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/
• Deutsche Tolkien Gesellschaft e.V.: https://www.tolkiengesellschaft.de/english/
  
• International Medieval Congress: https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/
  
• Journal of Tolkien Research: https://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolkienresearch/
• Luna Press Publishing: https://www.lunapresspublishing.com/
  
• Mythopoeic Society: http://www.mythsoc.org/
  
• Mythcon: http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon.htm
  
• Oxonmoot: https://www.tolkiensociety.org/events/oxonmoot-2021/
  
• Tolkien Society: https://www.tolkiensociety.org/
• Tolkien Studies: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/299
• Walking Tree Publishers: http://www.walking-tree.org/

Over on the Tolkienists website is a great list of conferences: https://tolkienists.org/cfps/

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Call for papers - Current (open)

CFP for edited anthology on Race, Racisms, And Tolkien
https://tolkien-on-the-web.dreamwidth.org/5162.html
Call for papers: Closes 10 January 2022
Essay submission: Deadline is 10 December 2022
Contact: Robin Anne Reid (Editor) robinareid@fastmail.com
PDF of CFP (stored on Google Drive): >>Link here<<

Landscapes of the Imagination: Political ecologies in imaginative literature 
https://www.politicalecology.org/2022/landscapes-of-imagination 
Call for papers: Closes 31 December 2021
Contact: kenton.sena@uky.edu 

Call for papers - Current (not yet open)

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Upcoming publications/conferences (call for papers now closed)

The Inklings and Horror: Fantasy's Dark Corners (Online Winter Seminar)
The Mythopoeic Society
http://www.mythsoc.org/
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/09/06/the-inklings-and-horror-fantasys-dark-corners
Conference date: 4-5 February 2022
Contact: mythiccircle@mythsoc.org

The Official CFP for the Tolkien Studies Area of the 2022 Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference
Popular Culture Association
https://pcaaca.org/area/tolkien-studies
Conference date: 13-16 April 2022
Conference location: Sheraton Seattle Hotel, 1400 Sixth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101
Contact: robinareid@fastmail.com

57th International Congress on Medieval Studies 2022

Kalamazoo, Western Michigan University
https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress
Conference date: 9-14 May 2022
Branches of papers:

Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic   
https://fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/2021/07/16/cfp-tolkien-and-fantasy-sessions-at-icms-kalamazoo/

• Tolkien and the Medieval Animal
• The Global Middle Ages in Young Adult Fantasy

D. B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership, Viterbo Univ.

• Medieval Understandings of the Nature of Evil as Depicted by J. R. R. Tolkien

Tales after Tolkien Society

• Twenty-First Century Neo/Medievalisms (A Roundtable)

Tolkien at Kalamazoo

• J. R. R. Tolkien and Medieval Poets: A Session in Memory of Richard C. West [Co-sponsored with Pearl-Poet Society]
• Medieval Tolkien and the Nature of Middle-earth (A Roundtable)
  

International Medieval Congress 2022
Leeds University
https://fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/2021/07/15/cfp-tolkien-sessions-at-leeds-imc-2022/
Conference date: 4-7 July 2022
Branches of papers:

• Tolkien: Medieval Roots and Modern Branches
• Tolkien and Medieval Poets: A Session in Memory of Richard C. West 
  
• Crossing Borders in Middle-earth
• Borders between Life and Death in Tolkien’s Legendarium
• Family Ties:  The Limits of Kinship in Tolkien’s Middle-earth
  
• Orientation, Transgression, and Crossing Borders of Middle-earth
• Tolkien as a Gateway to Interdisciplinary Teaching: A Roundtable

Once And Future Fantasies Conference 2022

Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic (CFF) / International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA)
University of Glasgow
https://fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/onceandfuture-cfp/
https://iaftfita.wildapricot.org/
Conference date: 13-17 July 2022

Mythcon #52: The Mythic, the Fantastic, and the Alien
Mythopoeic Society
July 29 - August 1, 2022
Conference location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-52.htm

Publication date unknown

Lore-masters and Libraries in Fantasy and Science-fiction: A Gedenkschrift for David Oberhelman
Jason Fisher & Janet Brennan Croft (Editors)
Published ?
Publisher: Mythopoeic Press
https://www.facebook.com/MythPress/posts/3586185854836059
https://www.facebook.com/MythPress/posts/1729954623792534
http://www.mythsoc.org/press.htm

Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth: Essays on the Habitations of Tolkien’s Legendarium
Cami Agan
Mythopoeic Press?
https://tolkienists.org/cfp/2020/mythpress/cities-and-strongholds
https://www.facebook.com/MythPress/posts/2680146505440003

The Romantic Spirit in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien
Walking Tree Publishers
http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=160

Tolkien’s Medicinal Medieval World: Illness and Healing in Middle-earth
Kent State University
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/05/27/%E2%80%98tolkien%E2%80%99s-medicinal-medieval-world-illness-and-healing-in-middle-earth%E2%80%99

2021 Luna CFP: "Not the Fellowship. Dragons Welcome."
https://www.lunapresspublishing.com/post/not-the-fellowship-dragons-welcome

White Wizard Male Privilege: Representations of Magic, Witchcraft and Wizardry
Lexington Books
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18D5Xmv6ZcMRnEQzIWsuWTU2UT924kbh0/