[Commlist] CfP – Popular Music Fiction – Riffs journal

*Call for Proposals*

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*“Perhaps only imagination, in its full processes, can touch and reach 
and recognise and embody... There are many other kinds of writing in 
society, but these now—of past and present and future—are close and 
urgent, challenging many of us to try both to understand and to attempt 
them”
— Raymond Williams*

*“Good prose is like a windowpane”
— George Orwell*

*Riffs Vol 5 Issue 1: Popular music fiction*

Perhaps you have a comic strip that you wrote on issues of 
representation in the music industry, or a piece of short fiction that 
considers popular music heritage, work that has not yet found a home. Or 
maybe your experiences as a musician, a music fan or researcher have 
provided you with rich characters, begging to be explored through a 
dialogue or a short story. We invite you to flex your imagination as a 
tool for analysis and criticism, to find a fictional form for your 
insights and arguments, and to imagine potential popular music futures 
(utopian *or* dystopian) as a means to critique the present.

Inspired by the work of our Guest Editor, Dr Ash Watson and the Fiction 
Desk of T/he Sociological Review/, the next issue of /Riffs/ will bring 
together work that uses fiction to critically explore issues within 
popular music and to communicate this to a wide audience.

Dr Ash Watson is based at the Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research 
in Health and Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South 
Wales, Sydney. She leads the public sociology project /So Fi Zine/, and 
is Fiction Editor of /The Sociological Review/. Her debut novel /Into 
the Sea/ was published by Brill in 2020.

/Riffs/publishes contributions from writers from academic and 
non-academic backgrounds. We encourage submissions which include 
written, visual, and musical elements, interrogate traditional and 
experimental forms of communication of ideas and arguments, and 
collaborations between writers, poets, musicians, composers and visual 
artists. For examples of pieces based on previous prompts, have a look 
through our current and past issues, available to download from our 
website – www.riffsjournal.org <http://www.riffsjournal.org/>.

Deadline for a title and 300-word synopsis of the proposed work –/*4th 
October 2020.* Please also include your name, a short bio and contact 
email./

Up to ten contributions will be published online and in limited edition 
print in July 2021.

Full submissions (of 1,000-4,000 words / visual (to not exceed 8 A4 
pages) / audio content / or an audio/video file suitable for hosting on 
WordPress) will be invited by the*/9th of October/*. Full submissions 
will be required by */14th February /*and blind peer reviewed before 
publication.*//*All visual and audio content must have a Creative 
CommonsLicense, be owned by the contributor or permission given by the 
copyright owner.

Please send your synopsis and bio to: (info /at/ riffsjournal.org) 
<mailto:(info /at/ riffsjournal.org)>

*Please note: */Riffs /shall be entitled to first use of the 
contribution in all the journal’s different forms, but the author 
remains the copyright owner and can re-publish their contribution 
without seeking the journal’s permission. /Riffs /reserve the right to 
decline to publish contributions if they are submitted after the agreed 
deadline and without the assigned editor being informed (and agreeing 
to) a new submission date.


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