Submissions:
Anthracite Journal is an annual themed publication and welcomes submissions across a wide range of formats, including but not limited to:
- Critical essays and scholarly writing
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Design projects and speculative proposals
- Visual work, drawings, photography, and collage
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Mapping, archival research, and documentation
- Creative writing, interviews, and hybrid formats
Submissions may address architecture directly or approach it obliquely through landscape, material culture, environments, history, labor, pedagogy, or place-based inquiry. Experimental formats and proposals are encouraged.
Submission Guidelines:
Please send your submissions through this Google Form (maximum supported file size: 10 mb).
Contact anthracitejournal@marywood.edu for any inquiries.
Anthracite Journal welcomes work from students, scholars, artists, writers, and practitioners. Publication decisions are based on completed work; no abstracts or proposals for work will be considered. Anthracite Journal is printed in a 5" by 8" format. All work must be original.
All text submissions should be written in English, 2000 words or less, formatted to the current Chicago Manual of Style (including essential footnotes), and submitted as editable Word documents (.doc). Anthracite Journal operates under the terms and conditions of academic fair use. If selected for publication, authors are responsible for obtaining the rights to all images they wish to include in the publication of their work. Images should be submitted as high-quality .jpg or .png (300 dpi).
Open Call for Submissions:
Volume 1: Inheritance
Anthracite’s inaugural issue asks contributors to critically examine what is carried forward—materially, socially, environmentally, and institutionally—and what remains after use, occupation, or extraction. Inheritance is not framed here as legacy or lineage alone, but as condition: the leftover, the residue, the after. It names both what we receive without choosing and what we are compelled to contend with.
We invite submissions that interrogate inherited landscapes, buildings, systems, pedagogies, and practices. These may include sites shaped by industry, extraction, and abandonment; architectural forms and materials that persist beyond their intended lifespans; disciplinary assumptions passed down through education and practice; or social and environmental debts embedded in the built environment. Inheritance may be privileged, burdensome, generative, unresolved, or contested—but it is never passive.
Submissions for print are due by October 31, 2026.
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