ChLA Global Committee
Contributor Information
Interested in becoming a contributor to the ChLA Global Committee’s blog? Send us an email at chlainternational@gmail.com with your name, affiliation, a brief bio, and your pitch or completed piece. Use the email subject heading Blog Contributor.
We are currently soliciting posts for the following categories but are also open to pitches and articles outside these areas:
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Interviews with global children’s authors, illustrators, publishers, translators, editors, and scholars
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Reviews of primary and secondary sources pertaining to globalism in children’s literature
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Academic treatments or textual analysis of a certain theme, book, author, etc. pertaining to global children’s literature (e.g. analysis of depictions of motherhood in contemporary Australian children’s picturebooks)
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Visits to international academic libraries or archives specializing in children's literature
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Acknowledgement of global holidays (e.g. discussing World Wildlife Day by highlighting global children’s books that discuss wildlife conservation and endangered species)
Contributor Blog Post Guidelines
Posts should be a minimum of 500 words in length, written in English, and accessible to an academic and layperson audience. Please attach your piece as a Word document and include any related images in JPEG format. Contributors are responsible for gaining copyright permission for use of images. Piece must be original and exclusive to the ChLA Global Committee Blog. We will not consider pieces that have already been published elsewhere.
ChLA Global Committee Calendar
To add your global conference, festival, fellowship, or CFP to our calendar, please email us the pertinent information (description, date, location, website, how to apply, etc.) at chlainternational@gmail.com. Use the email subject heading ChLA Global Committee Calendar.