American Literature Association Bloodchild and Other Stories CFP

Octavia E. Butler Literary Society
American Literature Association Annual Conference
Boston
May 2019

​The American Literature Association’s 30th annual conference will meet at the Westin Copley Place in Boston on May 23-26, 2019 (Thursday through Sunday of Memorial Day weekend).  The deadline for proposals is January 30, 2019. For further information, please consult the ALA website at www.americanliterature.org or for specific questions, contact the conference director and Executive Coordinator of the ALA, Professor Olivia Carr Edenfield, at [email protected] or the Executive Director of the ALA, Professor Alfred Bendixen at [email protected].
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The OEB Literary Society invites prospective participants to submit proposals relating to any aspect of Butler’s life and work. We especially encourage papers/panels addressing Butler’s short story collection, Bloodchild and Other Stories, and would like to devote at least one of the panels to this topic. We are open to the submission of both full panels and individual papers. Please email full panel proposals and/or individual abstracts of 300 words to Matthew Mullins at [email protected] Abstracts are due no later than January 15, 2019 and should include a brief biographical note.