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Calls for Papers
(please click on the link for full information, CFP opportunities appear in order of deadline date)
February 27, 2026
Call for Papers: The 2026 Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research (ACLAR) Conference, “Children’s literature in a time of crisis,” will be held at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, 18-20 November 2026. The conference will run in-person only. In addition, the Kate McInally Postgraduate Essay Prize will be awarded during the conference. The prize is worth AUD500 and postgraduate students who are members of ACLAR are eligible to enter essays between 3000 and 5000 words. Deadline for submission is 31 July 2026. Further details, including the entry form, are available on ACLAR’s website. Read the full CFP here.
March 1, 2026
Call for Papers for Guaranteed ChLA Session at MLA 2027 conference in Los Angeles: Postcolonial Fantasy for Young People. Read the full CFP here.
March 1, 2026
Call for Papers: Invisible Wounds: Reframing Adoption Narratives in Children's Literature. MLA 2027 Convention: January 7-10, 2027, in Los Angeles, California. Read the full CFP here.
March 19, 2026
Call for Papers: 'The natures of Winnie-the-Pooh, a centenary celebration Homerton College, Cambridge, Saturday 11th July 2026.' We invite proposals for twenty-minute papers, or panels of three papers, or roundtables, and encourage submissions from a diverse range of participants. Poster or creative (artistic/poetic) contributions are also welcomed. The closing date for submissions is midnight UK time on Sunday 29th March 2026. Read the full CFP here.
March 31, 2026
Returning to the Shelf: Memory, Reading, and the Afterlives of Childhood Books. A call for abstracts for an edited volume to be published with University Press of Mississippi. Read the full CFP here.
March 31, 2026
The University of St. Michael’s College invites proposals of individual papers or panels for a conference on the theme of Children, Literature, and the Christian Imagination. The keynote will take place on the evening of October 23 and the conference will take place the following day, October 24, 2026. Read the full CFP here.
May 31, 2026
The Dragon Lode Journal, a peer reviewed publication through the International Literacy Association, is now accepting submissions for Fall 2026. The Dragon Lode is dedicated to literacy, language arts, and the teaching of reading and writing. We seek original, unpublished work that engages with contemporary issues and questions, genre studies, literary theory, and research related to children’s literature and reading. Read the full CFP here.
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