• CPF: “Women and Animals,” a Legacy Salon

    Women and Animals: Looking Back and Forward (a Legacy Digital Salon) Edited by Emma Thiébaut (Université Paris Cité) For its next digital Salon, Legacy invites short, reflective, or creative pieces of no more than 1,000 words on the past and future of the political alliance between women* and animals* (the asterisk, borrowed from Eva Hayward…

  • CFP: Predicting the Future, a Legacy salon

    Predicting the Future (an homage to Octavia Butler) As we move on from the November 5th election day, we ask ourselves “what’s next?” Or,as the young man in Octavia Butler’s “A Few Rules for Predicting the Future” asks,“what’s the answer?” We hope to engage the Legacy community in a discussion of thefuture as we attempt…

  • “Spiritualism Reconjured”: A Legacy special issue edited by Ashley Reed (Virginia Tech)

    Deadline: August 1, 2024 Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers seeks essays devoted to the study of women’s writing by, for, and about members of the nineteenth-century Spiritualist movement. Spiritualism was a wildly popular religious practice that burst onto the American scene in 1848 when two young girls in Hydesville, New York, claimed to…

  • Call for Submissions:

    In honor of the 150th anniversary of Louisa May Alcott’s novel Work (1873) we invite short essays (2,000 to 3,000 words) that reflect on the intersections of labor, precarity, and organizing in nineteenth-century American women’s writing for an upcoming forum in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. Drafted and pitched as a semi-autobiographical novel…

  • Do you have your own COVID-19 and Archival Research story?

    Tell us about it! Join us on Facebook and Twitter (@LegacyWmenWrite). Or contact Jennifer Putzi at putzi.legacy@gmail.com if you’d like to write a piece to add to this forum. Thanks for reading and for being faithful supporters of Legacy!