The Journal of the Short Story in English (JSSE) is published semi-annually in December and June by the University Press of Angers (France), under the auspices of the Department of English Language and Literature and the Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaires en Langue Anglaise.
The JSSE will publish articles on short stories and novellas in the form of essays (not exceeding 480,000 signs) and notes (not exceeding 120,000 signs).
Electronic submission is encouraged. Attach the file, in Microsoft Word format, to an e-mail addressed to Linda.collinge@univ-angers.fr and emmanuel.vernadakis@univ-angers.fr, co-editors or to dalec@mail.belmont.edu and PAINESTOVER@aol.com, American editors. Please include the following in the body of the e-mail: title of the paper, a 150-word abstract, in English and French if possible, a short contributor’s note, your name, e-mail address, and postal address, and your institutional affiliation (if it isn't obvious from your postal address).
If you submit a paper manuscript, please send only one copy to Linda Collinge and Emmanuel Vernadakis, co-editors, Maison des Sciences Humaines, 5bis boulevard Lavoisier, 49045 Angers cedex 01, France, or to Corinne Dale and John Paine, American editors, Belmont University, 1900 Belmont Boulevard, Nashville, TN 37212-3757. The manuscript will not be returned.
Manuscripts must meet the following requirements before they will be considered for publication:
Not previously published or under consideration. It is understood that manuscripts submitted to the JSSE for consideration have not been published previously, in part or in whole, and are not simultaneously under consideration for publication elsewhere.
PREPARED FOR BLIND REVIEW
The author's name and institutional affiliation are not to appear, so described, in the manuscript.
PROPERLY FORMATTED
Manuscripts chosen for publication must eventually conform to the endnote style of The MLA Style Manual. All pages must be numbered.