[ecrea] Monsters and the Monstrous Journal-- Fairy Tale Monsters / Monstrous Fairy Tales

The Monsters and the Monstrous Journal Current Call for Submissions:



Volume 5, Number 1 (Summer 2015), Fairy Tale Monsters / Monstrous Fairy 
Tales



This special issue of the Monsters and the Monstrous Journal proposes to 
discuss the ideas of fairy tale monsters and monstrous fairy tales and 
explore how fairy tale monsters are defined, (re)created and (re)visioned.



Contemporary popular culture has seen the fairy tale genre expand to 
include elements of paranormal romance by mixing with more traditional 
supernatural monsters (eg. vampires, werewolves, etc.), become 
re-energized with teenaged iterations of classic characters (Monster 
High, Ever After High), and persevere as a space of both invention and 
intervention.



Indeed, 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of Alice’s Adventures in 
Wonderland, which has often been categorised as a fairy tale; Carroll 
himself specifically identified Through the Looking-Glass as “a 
fairy-tale” in the poem he wrote as an epigraph for that book.



Possible Topics:



-Redefining, revisioning fairy tale monsters: mashups, redeeming the 
“monster,” and retellings (Once Upon a Time, Maleficent, Sleepy Hollow; 
Neil Gaiman, Angela Carter, etc.) -(Re)interpretations of fairy tales 
through the political, socio-cultural, (dis)abilities and sexual canon 
(eg. Liminality, deviance, inhumanity, witches, etc.) -Monstrous fairy 
tales: violence, cannibalism, rape -Disneyfication of the fairy tale: 
Who is the real villain?

-New vs. Old fairy tale heroes/heroines

-New vs. Old fairy tale villains, monsters -East vs. West fairy tales 
(eg. Grimm and the use of non-western storylines; manga) -Urban legends 
and the fairy tale (eg. La Llorona, the boogeyman, the Wolf as 
pedophile, etc.)

-Young adult fiction rewriting the fairy tale and its monsters (eg. 
Jackson Pearce, Lily Archer, Maggie Stiefvater, Francesca Lia Block etc.)

-Fractured fairy tales,  parodies and mash-ups: monsters revisited (eg. 
Marissa Meyer, Cornelia Funke, Danielle Page, etc.)

-Fairy tales, popular romance and erotica: sexual deviance, 
non-heteromative revisions; challenging the status quo (eg. Anne Rice, 
Alison Tyler, Eloisa James, etc.) -Fairy tales and Hollywood (eg. Tim 
Burton, Matthew Bright, etc.) -Visual fairy tales: opera, ballet, 
musicals (eg. Wicked)

-Monstrous teenage legacies: “Monster High” and “Ever After High”

-The metaliterary use of fairy tales and/or pedagogical uses of fairy 
tale monsters



We are also looking for film and book reviews on any theme related to 
the idea of Monsters and the Monstrous. All materials reviewed should 
have been published or released within two years of the journal issue 
they are submitted to. Any queries, please contact the editor at the 
email below.



Submissions for this Issue are required by Friday 26th June 2015 at the 
latest. Contributions to the journal should be original and not under 
consideration for other publications at the same time as they are under 
consideration for this publication. Submissions are to be made 
electronically wherever possible using either Microsoft® Word or .rtf 
format. All images, artworks and photographs need to have the 
appropriate copyright permissions before being sent in.



We also invite submission to our special features on Non-English 
Language Book Reviews. Please mark entries for these topics with their 
respective headings.



All accepted articles, artworks and prose pieces will receive a free 
electronic version of the journal.



For more information please follow this link:

http://monstersjournal.net/submissions/



Length Requirements:

~ poetry, prose, short stories can be any length but not exceed 7,000 words.

~ articles should be between 4,000 – 7,000 words long ~ reflections, 
reports and responses should be 1,500 – 3,000 words long ~ book and film 
reviews should be between 500 and 1,500 words long



Submission Information:

All submissions should include a short biography (100-150 words) that 
will be included with the to be included submission if accepted. Please 
send submissions via e-mail using the following Subject Line:



‘Journal: Contribution Type (article/review/…): Author Surname’



Submissions E-Mail Address: (monstersjournal /at/ inter-disciplinary.net)

Submissions will be acknowledged within 48 hours of receipt.



Style Sheets

All submissions should be formatted in accordance with the journal style 
sheets. A word template for this may be found here: Download Journal 
Template File (Word Document).



Proof/Checking

If accepted for publication, you will be provided with one opportunity 
to see a proof inspection copy of your submission. Only typographical or 
factual errors may be changed during proof checking stage. Revisions or 
addition to the text will not be possible.



Copy

All contributors will receive one complimentary PDF copy of the edition 
in which their submission appears. Camera-ready .pdf of prints will also 
be made available.



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