Journal

The Journal of Florida Literature

The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature publishes articles, creative fiction and poetry, book reviews, notes in the spirit of or regarding the life and work of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, her circle, and other authors who use the state of Florida as a source of creativity. Read the journal online at this link. Download the call for papers flyer.

Guest Editor
Ashley Reese

Editor Elect
Keith Huneycutt

Editorial Board
Brent Kinser, Western Carolina University
Ashley Lear, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Veronica Makowsky, University of Connecticut
Maurice O’Sullivan, Rollins College
Rodger L. Tarr, Illinois State University
Florence M. Turcotte, University of Florida

Call for Papers

Since 1988, The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature has published material relevant to the life, works, and friends of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Yearling and many other widely respected and beloved works, including Cross Creek, Cross Creek Cookery, South Moon Under, and Golden Apples.

The guest editor of the JFL, Ashley Reese, would like to invite submissions of critical articles that focus not only on Rawlings but also on issues that fit within the broader contexts of Florida writing, regionalism, feminism and gender studies, race, eco-criticism, literature of place, domesticity, and southern culture. Papers in these more general areas should in some way connect with Rawlings and/or contemporaries of Rawlings.

In addition, the Journal welcomes submissions of short fiction and poetry, especially those works inspired by Rawlings’s own deep affection for Florida and Florida life.

Please submit an electronic copy to the editor by the February 1st deadline. All manuscripts should be no more than twenty-five double-spaced pages in length.

Manuscripts should follow MLA guidelines for documentation. All submitted articles and creative work will be peer reviewed.

JFL provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. There are no publication charges, and all content is freely available without charge to the user or their institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author for non-commercial purposes. Nonetheless, reproduction, posting, transmission or other distribution or use of the article or any material therein requires credit to the original publication source with a link to both the article and the license. This open access policy is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative’s (BOAI) definition of open access.

Please send submissions and correspondence related to other editorial issues and subscriptions to:

Dr. Ashley Reese
University of South Florida
ashleynicholereese@gmail.com