(note from Julie Myatt):

The 2008 Pop Culture Association in the South conference will be held in Louisville next October. 
See the Call for Papers.

Dr. Dennis Hall states that if anyone wants or needs any information about this meeting or help in preparing a presentation, he'll be happy to do what he can. And if you happen to run into Dr. Hall, please thank him for his commitment to making graduate students aware of publication and presentation opportunities!

Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy.

This is a general call for webtexts for Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology,
Pedagogy. Kairos welcomes contributions from scholars pursuing a wide
variety of digital issues and approaches from theory to praxis in our
Topoi, Praxis, Reviews, and Interviews sections.

Kairos publishes "webtexts," which means projects developed with
specific attention to the World Wide Web as a publishing medium. We do
not suggest an ideal standard; rather we invite each author or
collaborative writing team to think carefully about what unique
opportunities the Web offers. Some projects may best be presented in
hypertextual form or in multimedia.

The journal's editorial process is one of the most unique aspects of
publishing with Kairos. For the Topoi section, the review process
includes three tiers: review by the editors, collaborative review by
the editorial board, and one-on-one mentoring by the editors for
third-stage texts in need of revision.

For all other journal sections, the editorial process includes review
by editorial staff to determine the quality and appropriateness of the
submission for publication in Kairos and then a thorough review by
editorial board members assigned to the section

For more information, please see the guidelines at:
http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/cfht.html

Blackbird

A note from Matt Crady, who is now working at a journal at VCU in their creative writing department:

Just wanted to encourage you to submit to Blackbird (the journal I'm interning for). They publish greats like Phillip Levine, which is why they're the best online journal on the web.

If writers can get published here, making the transition to print journals will be a lot easier.  I'd recommend checking out the type of stuff Blackbird publishes at http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/ and also looking there for submission info. 

Thanks. Just wanted to make that plug. It's the students like myself who decide what gets published, so you can be a complete nobody, as long as your work is good.

--Matt