Editorial Office: liquid blackness Limited
258 Garland Ave
Decatur, GA 30030
404-702-0405
journalsubmissions@liquidblackness.comEditors in Chief: Alessandra Raengo, Georgia State University
Lauren McLeod Cramer, University of Toronto
Editorial Board: Charles “Chip” Linscott, Ohio University
Derek Conrad Murray, University of California, Santa Cruz
James Tobias, University of California, Riverside
Calvin Warren, Emory University
Managing Editor: Corey Couch, Georgia State University
Associate Editors: Erica Edwards
Ekow Eshun
Kevin Jerome Everson
Keith M. Harris
Amy Herzog
Uri McMillan
Advisory Board: Eddie Chambers
Anne Anlin Cheng
Thomas F. DeFrantz
Jonathan Eburne
Amy Elias
Tatiana Flores
Bishnuprya Gosh
Kara Keeling
Barbara McCullough
Amber Musser
Marina Peterson
Michele Prettyman
Louis Ruprecht
Christina Sharpe
liquid blackness follows the formatting and reference guidelines stipulated by
The Chicago Manual of Style, seventeenth edition, and the
liquid blackness style guide. We encourage submissions of bold and innovative contributions addressing points of convergence between Black studies and aesthetic theory, practice and praxis. We welcome submissions of traditional and experimental essays, visual and textual art, video, and other artistic work accompanied by an artist statement. All submissions, solicited and unsolicited, will be peer-reviewed. Please send submissions to
journalsubmissions@liquidblackness.com.
The Editorial Processliquid blackness is committed to publishing issues that have a thematic, methodological, or formal consistency. We welcome work that responds to our current
Calls for Papers and open call submissions.
Proposals for special issues from guest editors must include a title; abstract describing the theme; list of confirmed contributors with brief bios and paper abstracts; list of possible reviewers; and publication timeline (the expected date for the first drafts).
General Information on FormatsArticles should be 6,000–8,000 words in length.
Short Pieces (interviews, roundtables, artist statements and other commentary, art reviews, and other creative “nontraditional” scholarship) should be 2,000–3,000 words in length.
Questions about the length of visual and sonic material should be directed to
journalsubmissions@liquidblackness.com Additional Submission Guidelines - All submissions that produce significant original thought in written, visual, or sonic form must include five keywords and an abstract of approximately 250 words that describes the piece’s topic, methodology, and central argument.
- Written submissions should be Word or RTF files, not PDFs.
- Written submissions accompanied by image/sound files (with credits and permissions) are highly recommended.
- Audiovisual submissions can be submitted in the following formats: mp3, .mp4, .wav, .wma, .au, .m4a, .mpg, .mpeg, .mov, .avi, .wmv., html. (Executable files (.exe) are not acceptable.)
Minimum image resolution is 300 dpi.
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