Finding a place to house our research is always quite stressful – as series editors, we are offering a way to get rid of some of that stress for you with a new collection of texts on literary journalism, published by Palgrave.

Seven titles to date, including Central-European Narratives edited by György Túry and Robert Alexander (cover still in process), we will talk you through the steps from conception, to pitching to Palgrave, to the call for papers for your text, or simply to support you as you write your monograph. Every text will be blind peer reviewed – we will talk you through this process as well.

These are some of the themes for exploration:
• Gathering scholarship about the field in a coherently organised series that will be recognised and welcomed by scholars, students and practitioners;
• Expanding scholarship beyond the traditional emphasis on the United States to document and discuss literary journalism in a range of countries and/or continents, for example, the Spanish and Portuguese Crónica; France’s Reportage Litteraire; Poland’s Reportaz; Literarischer Journalismus in Germany; Bibun Kisha in Japan; Baogao Wenxue in China; and Ocherk in Russian.;
• Providing the most up-to-date scholarship about how literary journalism deals with contemporary issues such as climate change, or what role literary journalism can play in the media’s future, including AI issues, the use of, as well as ethical debates swirling around it;
• Charting the field’s traditions, especially its so far under-studied or neglected topics;
• Critically re-assessing the role and practices of some of Anglo literary journalism’s best known names, such as Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, Janet Malcolm and Joan Didion.

Of course, anything you feel appropriate, pitch us your ideas. Let’s talk!

Please email your pitch to:
sue.joseph@adelaide.edu.au;
willa.mcdonald@mq.edu.au; and
matthew.ricketson@deakin.edu.au

Thankyou

Deadline: 17 August 2026