Category Archives: Call for Writers

Call for expressions of interest | Constructive Alcohol – production, consumption, everything else

Call for expressions of interest (open to 10 January 2026): Constructive Alcohol – production, consumption, everything else Kia ora everyone, I am planning an edited book – Constructive Alcohol – production, consumption, everything else (working title). I have a couple of international publishers interested and I am looking for contributions from a wide array disciplines and across a diversity of societies and fields – Global South, Global North, Transnational, Global. The book will be a response to Mary Douglas’ ground-breaking work Constructive Drinking (1987). Published nearly 40 years ago, Constructive Drinking continues to be a touchstone for research that foundationally […]

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Writer Call Out | The Mother Issue: Artlink | EOI deadline 6 July

The Mother Issue 45:3 | Warltati / Summer (December 2025–March 2026) Editor: Belinda Howden Artlink invites writers working in Australia and the Asia-Pacific to submit an Expression of Interest for publication in The Mother Issue, on shelves from December 2025–March 2026. Despite art historical invisibility, parenthood is an evergreen subject for artists — mothers especially. The Mother Issue considers motherhood and parenting as a generative force in contemporary art practices, and tracks the ways artists and arts workers navigate their careers against a backdrop of radical technological and ideological change towards child-rearing in the first quarter of the twenty-first century. We encourage a range […]

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