Dissections:

The Journal of Contemporary Horror

We are happy to present the fourth edition of Dissections.

Our fourth edition includes poems by Bryan Dietrich, Patricia Harkins-Pierre, Michael Johnson, Jack Nunn, Fiona Sinclair and Gina Wisker; stories by Mark Warnes and Gina Wisker; critical articles by Michael A. Arnzen, Frances Auld, Rhonda Brock-Servais, Susan Dickson, Rachel Fenstermaker, Douglas Ford, Linda Holland-Toll and Daniel Schnopp-Wyatt; reviews by Lawrence C. Connolly and Gina Wisker; and artworks by Susan Diab and Will Jacques.

Dissections is a new international horror and dark fantasy e-journal that provides a rich opportunity for academics, critics and creative writers and artists to publish alongside each other. We welcome essays on 20th and 21st century horror and dark fantasy, including film, fiction and images. We also publish some short creative fiction, poetry and artwork. Dissections is peer-reviewed and ‘published’ twice yearly.

It is edited by Gina Wisker and Michelle Bernard and operates out of Anglia Ruskin University and the University of Brighton.
Artwork on this page by Deena Warner.
Editorial Board: Michael A. Arnzen, Frances Auld, Brian Attebery, Clive Bloom, Lawrence C. Connolly, Linda Holland-Toll, William Hughes, Marie Mulvey-Roberts, Nickianne Moody, Stephanie Moss, David Sandner, Andrew Smith and Gina Wisker.

Call for Papers for Fifth and Sixth Editions

Dissections is calling for submissions for its fifth and sixth editions.
The fifth edition will be a general horror edition, to include essays, short creative fiction, poetry and artwork.

The sixth edition will focus on vampires and we invite submissions of essays, short creative fiction, poetry and artwork.

Conference
'Teaching Threshold Concepts in Gothic and Popular Fiction'
Conjunctions and Connotations in Developing English Studies

This event will provide a space to explore current teaching practice for both Gothic and Popular Fiction. Sessions/workshops will address Meyer and Land's theory of threshold concepts, interdisciplinary teaching, and how new technologies and new pedagogies assist the teaching of gothic and popular fiction, including fantasy and horror. The idea for this conference has grown out of a successful HEA English subject centre project: Conjunctions and Connotations, focusing on developments in and variations of English studies, and on the awareness, evidence and nurturing of threshold concepts in English literature (in all its varieties) highlighting the need for students to become aware of and adept in working with threshold concepts (Meyer and Land, 2006) of (in the main) representation, context and form.

It grows from research and practice in innovations in the teaching and assessing of English literature at BA, MA and PhD and a highly topical focus on teaching two strands of writing – the Gothic and Popular Fictions, which are both special to Brighton, and widely popular across the sector.

Colleagues are invited to share research and experience-informed case studies in English and its teaching, particularly of the Gothic and Popular Fictions.

Some of the issues and questions which might be considered include:

* Teaching and researching the literary Gothic
* Teaching and researching Popular Fictions
* The challenges of engaging students at sufficiently conceptual, critical and
creative levels
* Recognising, nurturing and rewarding the achievement of threshold concepts
* Interdisciplinary teaching,
* How new technologies and new pedagogies enable learning in English
* Innovations in teaching, learning, assessing and curriculum developments at
BA, Master’s and PhD
* Using creative writing in the English curricula

Other related areas of interest will also be considered.

Sessions offered for the day conference should be a mixture of papers and interactive discussion and should last 20 minutes.

The conference will be run at the University of Brighton, Falmer site on Saturday 12 September, 2009, 9.30 am – 4.30 pm. Expressions of interest and queries should come to: g.wisker@brighton.ac.uk
and Registration will be via the HEA English subject centre website at:
http://www.english.heacademy.ac.uk/

Submission Guidelines

We only accept electronic submissions

Get to know Dissections before you submit
You may read Dissections and decide your work would not fit the style.

Keep a record of exactly what you have sent and when.

If you submit material to us, you will be acknowledged immediately but must be prepared to wait at least 4 months for a response about possible publication. We apologise in advance for this and thank you for your patience. We like to read submissions carefully.

Please submit text in Word or PDF format only.
Please submit images in JPG, JPEG, PNG or GIF format only.
You may submit your work via e-mail or, for larger pieces exceeding 1Mb, please send a CD-ROM containing your submission to our postal address below.

Dissections does not accept erotic or pornographic work, unless it is clearly essential in terms of the cultural engagement or the exploration of horror and dark fantasy.

Please note: We regret that we are unable to give you any financial remuneration or feedback on your work or enter into any correspondence about rejected work.

Please also note: We do not accept unsolicited reviews and are not looking for new reviewers.

If you decide your work is right for us, please send your essays, poems, stories (stories can be up to 5,000 words in length), or images to:

Dissections
Gina Wisker: GinWskr@aol.com
and
Michelle Bernard: michelle.bernard@anglia.ac.uk

Post CDs only to:
Michelle Bernard
INSPIRE
204 Eastings
Anglia Ruskin University
East Road
Cambridge
Cambs CB1 1PT
UK

Please remember:

o It can take 3-4 months for us to reply.
o We cannot give any feedback on your work.
o There is no payment for work published in Dissections.

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