We accept the following types of submissions:

Texts

Theoretically informed pieces of writing between 3000 and 4500 words that express the author’s viewpoint around scholarly and larger social, political and cultural topics. Apart from being theoretically informed, they can also be argumentative, speculative and free-style.

Reviews

Reviews of films, books, exhibitions, and other forms of cultural production range from 1000 to 1500 words.

Interviews

Interviews with artists, cultural producers, or theorists range from 1500 to 2500 words.

Visuals

Visuals include photographic projects of around 7–10 photos and a conceptual note up to 500 words explaining what they are about.

Fiction

Short stories, scripts and speculative fiction up to 3000 words.

Poetry

This section includes poems and experimental writing (no specific word count restriction)

General submission guidelines

Format

  • Times New Roman, 12pt.
  • 1,5-spaced with no special alignment
  • Maximum of two levels of headings
  • Emphasis should be italicized, not underlined.
  • Numbers one to a hundred in text (e.g., seven), 101 onwards in Arabic numerals.
  • Dates: day, month, year (no commas), e.g., 27 May 2015.
    Date spans: 1983–2015 and 15 March – 21 May (en-dashes, not hyphens).
    Nineteenth century, twenty-first century etc.
  • Use italics for the titles of artworks, publications, and films.
  • Use single quotation marks for direct quotes (e.g., Marx said that ‘proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains’3) and double quotation marks for suggesting alternate meanings, unusual use or distance from the word (e.g., in capitalism, individuals should “optimize” themselves) as well as for a quote inside a quote.
  • Quotes of fifty words or more are indented 0.5 cm, left and right, 11-pt, 1,15-line spacing, and two-line spaces above and below.
  • If there is italicized emphasis within a quote, please indicate in a parenthesis ‘emphasis in the original’ or ‘emphasis added’.
  • If you are unsure about someone’s gender, prefer the third person pronoun (they/ them/ theirs).
  • Authors could choose either British (e.g., capitalise, labour) or American English (e.g., capitalize, labor), as long as they are consistent throughout their texts.
  • The author should ensure that the text has no grammatical or other mistakes.
  • There should be a bibliography list at the end that corresponds to all the citations used in the notes.
  • If a reference is repeated, we use ‘Ibid’ in the immediately following note or the ‘short note’ version for a later note.

Citations

All citations for *articles* should go in superscripts that correspond to endnotes (Arabic numerals) rather than in-text (Marwick, 2005).

Alice Marwick argues that internet celebrities use emotional labour to address their audiences1

1 Alice Marwick, “Instafame: Luxury Selfies in the Attention Economy,” Public Culture 27, no. 1 (75) (2015): 137-160.

Please use the following guide for citations: https://www.scribbr.com/chicago-style/footnotes/

For texts, reviews, and other writing, it is up to the author to decide the citation style.

Images

  • We encourage the use of at least one image in the text, as an image needs to appear in the preview.
  • The maximum number of images is 5 for articles and 10 for photographic projects.
  • Authors should always seek to obtain high-quality images.
  • Authors should provide the full captions of images.

The copyright is with the author.

All submissions should be sent to lacuna_journal@protonmail.com