CfP: Journal of Gaming and Virtual Words – Summer 2011 Issue

Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds (ISSN: 1757191X; print on demand and online) is now seeking contributions to its 3(2) issue (summer 2011). Papers from all areas associated with video/computer games and virtual worlds are welcome.


Deadlines: 31 December 2010 for long articles; 15th January 2011 for short articles, conference/project reports, poster abstracts, interviews and (machinima/book/game…) reviews.

The following word limits apply:
Long articles: 5000-8000 words
Short articles: 3000-5000 words
Conference and other reports: 1000-2000 words
Reviews (books, websites, games, machinima), poster abstracts and interviews: 1500-3000 words.

Please send your submissions in anonymized (doc/x) form to Astrid Ensslin at a.ensslin@bangor.ac.uk.
Reviews should be submitted to the Reviews Editor, Matthew S.S. Johnson, at matjohn@siue.edu.
Machinima reviews should be submitted to Phylis Johnson at phylisj@yahoo.com.

For informal inquiries and the Intellect styleguide, contact Isamar Carrillo Masso at isamar.carrillo@gmail.com.

For more information about the journal’s remit, previous issues and board of editors, visit http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=164/view,page=2/.

The current issue (2:2), guest-edited by Esther MacCallum-Stewart and Denise Doyle, was published in August 2010 and can be accessed at http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=1863/.

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