Southern Cultures Documentary Arts Special Issue

Southern Cultures, the award-winning, peer-reviewed quarterly from UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South, encourages submissions from scholars, writers, and artists for our Documentary Arts Issue. We will be accepting submissions for this special issue through July 31, 2015, at https://southerncultures.submittable.com/Submit . 

Submissions can explore any topic or theme related to documentary arts, broadly defined, with a special interest in pieces that reflect on the nature of documentary expression, addressing the work of the documentary artists from either the maker or those represented in the work (or both).  

We welcome pieces that investigate or employ traditional documentary forms, as well as new approaches to documentary research and representation, from the deeply personal to the overtly political, from work committed to aesthetics of place to that with goals to intervene and bring social change (and many more). We are interested in any and all of this, in the forms Southern Cultures publishes: scholarly essays, memoir, photo essays, surveys, and shorter feature articles.

As we also publish a digital edition, we are able to supplement essays with video, audio, and interactive visual content. We encourage creativity in coordinating print and digital materials in submissions and ask that authors submit any potential digital materials with their essay or introduction/artist’s statement.

We encourage authors to gain familiarity with the tone, scope, and style of our journal before submitting. Those whose institutions subscribe to Project Muse can read past issues for free via http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/southern_cultures/ .