36.3547, Calls: TXT Magazine - "Special Issue: Omission" (Jrnl)

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Date: 18-Nov-2025
From: Xinrui Li [Txtleiden at gmail.com]
Subject: TXT Magazine - "Special Issue: Omission" (Jrnl)


Journal: TXT Magazine
Issue: Omission
Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2025

Throughout the history of humanity, we are constantly recording,
documenting, remembering. We catalog on cave walls, on wax tablets and
wooden boards, on animal skins, on paper, and now, on electronic
devices. Everything that we know and remember today is such because it
was made to exist. But how about what wasn’t?
In this issue, we are re-remembering what was left out: the lost, the
overlooked, the forgotten. Our understanding is shaped as much by what
is neglected as by what is preserved, and we are in search of these
empty spaces left behind—by accident or by design. We invite
contributions exploring all facets of ‘omission’. How do societies
decide what deserves to be recorded? Why are some things included
while others are excluded, intentionally or not? What was left out
that perhaps should have been preserved, and what did we forget—or
choose to forget?
Submission Details:
We are calling for both academic and creative submissions and we
encourage contributions from anyone, regardless of degree level,
professional status, ethnic or linguistic background, gender, etc. We
look forward to reading your submission!
Academic Submission:
Abstract:
Deadline for abstract submission: 15 December 2025
The abstract should have a length of 200–300 words, excluding
references. Please add a list of at least three keywords.
Full article:
Deadline for full article submission: 1 March 2026
The article should count 1500–3500 words, excluding footnotes and
references.
Style guide: MLA
Creative Submission:
Concept brief and previous work:
Deadline for concept brief and previous work: 15 December 2025
Please provide a concept brief of 100–200 words that introduces the
ideas you have for your submission, as well as one piece of your
previous creative writing.
Full Piece:
Deadline for full piece submission: 1 March 2026
The full piece, regardless of the literary form, should fall within a
maximum of 2000 words.
We accept all forms of fiction and non-fiction creative writing,
including short story, flash fiction, poetry, short play, and any
experimental forms.
All submissions should be in English and sent as a PDF file attached
to an email that mentions the contributor’s name, title, and
organizational affiliation (if any). Images should be provided as
individual files in the attachment. For all submissions and inquiries,
please contact us at txtleiden at gmail.com.
Context and Inspiration:
Through gaps and absences, books and texts tell stories of omission,
allowing us to find something in the nothing, revealing, like a time
capsule, what has and has not survived the centuries. In medieval
manuscripts, we find traces of erased mistakes, scraped parchment,
abbreviated words, or the last blank pages transformed for a new
purpose, where absence becomes the ground for something new. In the
digital age, we face a new paradox where infinite duplication promises
to defeat forgetfulness and allow endless backups, and yet we still
decide what not to preserve, what not to share, what to delete.
Omission, in all its forms, persists and extends across time and
technology, reminding us that it is not merely a loss but a mode of
meaning-making, a human pattern that shapes not only what we remember,
but how we remember. Topics to explore include but are not limited to:
 - How do gaps, erasures, and blank spaces in books and manuscripts
shape the transmission and interpretation of texts?
 - In what ways has omission been used historically as a tool of
control, censorship, or suppression?
 - How can omission function as a form of resistance, protest, or
alternative storytelling?
 - How does digital media complicate the relationship between
preservation and forgetting, and what does deliberate digital omission
reveal?
 - How do cultural practices, superstitions, or social taboos manifest
omission, and what role do they play in shaping societal memory and
values?
TXT is an annual academic journal (ISSN: 2405-6146) produced by
students of the MA programme Book and Digital Media Studies of Leiden
University under supervision of Dr. Peter Verhaar, published in
cooperation with Academic Press Leiden.
https://bookandbyte.universiteitleiden.nl/TXT/
txtleiden at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics




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