CFP: Dad Writing

deadline for submissions:
January 31, 2019
full name / name of organization:
Intermezzo
contact email:
j.rice@uky.edu
Intermezzo, a digital longform publication - http://intermezzo.enculturation.net/ - seeks submissions that explore the role of dads in academic or scholarly writing.



Dad bods. Father knows best.  Cats in the Cradle.  Father of the Bride. The embarrassing dad. The absent father. There is no shortage of clichés, stereotypes, cultural representations, tropes, and ideas about dads. There is not, however, a significant body of academic writing on dads.



While a great deal has been written about academic life from the perspective of moms (particularly regarding the difficulty balancing work/life demands within a system that favors men), little has been written by academic dads about fatherhood. Is it possible to write about fatherhood – as an academic father or as an academic writing about one’s father –without pathologizing the narrative of children and their fathers? In addition to the popular, thematic focus of difficult father/child relationship narratives, are there other stories academics can tell about their dads, about others’ dads, or about being a dad?



Intermezzo seeks 20-80,000 word submissions that explore fatherhood from a variety of positions. Personal narratives. Popular fatherhood stories. Stereotypes and commonplaces. Experimental non-fiction. Visual narratives. There are many ways to conceive and perform dad writing. We welcome innovative approaches.



We are also interested in submissions which take advantage of organizational strategies print publications might not publish – such as the inclusion of audio, imagery, and video.



All work published with Intermezzo undergoes peer review. Intermezzo is committed to providing an outlet for essays too long for journal publication, but too short for monograph publication. Essays are published as open source, are registered with the Library of Congress,  and receive ISBN numbers.  They may include multimedia as well. Intermezzo expects to publish five new works in the next year and is one of the fastest growing outlets of alterative academic work.



Intermezzo is meant to be a venue where writers can produce scholarly work in unique ways, outside of institutional or disciplinary expectation, and it takes advantage of digital media as a platform for both content and distribution of timely topics.



Intermezzo accepts longform essays on a rolling submission basis, with no deadlines.



Please submit submissions, abstracts, or queries to



Jeff Rice

Series Editor

j.rice@uky.edu