CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue on: Eco-Narratives and Climate Fiction
New Literaria: An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Humanities
The New Literaria Journal invites original research papers for its upcoming Special Issue on “Eco-Narratives and Climate Fiction”. This issue seeks to explore the growing body of literary works that engage with ecological concerns, environmental crises, and climate change. As global warming, biodiversity loss, and ecological degradation become pressing challenges of our time, literature has responded with narratives that not only depict these realities but also prompt reflection, advocacy, and action. This special issue aims to investigate how eco-narratives and climate fiction contribute to environmental consciousness and reconfigure the relationship between humans and nature. We welcome research articles, critical essays, reviews that address, but are not limited to, the following themes:
- Re-reading classical and modern literature through an ecological lens.
- Environmental exploitation in postcolonial and Indigenous literatures.
- Ecological insights in traditional myths, folklore, and oral narratives.
- Climate fiction as a tool for raising environmental awareness.
- Intersection of gender, race, class, ecology, and power in eco-narratives.
- Eco-pedagogy and its role in fostering environmental literacy.
- Anthropocene narratives in speculative fiction and dystopian literature.
- The resurgence of nature writing in the 21st century.
- Oceanic and Blue Humanities.
- Urban Ecologies and Eco-Dystopias.
- Digital Eco-Literature.
- Animal Studies and Environmental Ethics.
- Disaster Narratives and Eco-Trauma.
- Ecopoetics and Experimental Literature.
Submission Guidelines:
- Manuscripts should adhere to the guidelines of New Literaria journal, available on our website(https://newliteraria.com/for-authors/submission-guidelines/).
- Submissions must be original, unpublished work and should not be under consideration elsewhere.
- Length of the paper: 3500–6000 words, including references.
- Referencing Style: APA 7th Edition.
- Papers should be submitted to newliteraria@gmail.com
Submission Deadline: 30th June, 2025