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constellations is an online double-blind peer-reviewed publishing space featuring works discussing cultural rhetorics.

constellations is an online double-blind peer-reviewed publishing space featuring cultural rhetorics scholarship, teaching, and practice. The field of cultural rhetorics is anchored in storytelling and in building and honoring relationships, and in the belief that all cultures are rhetorical and all rhetorics are cultural. This belief forms a set of constellating methodologies, theories, and practices that draw attention to the intricate ways meaning emerges in human practices. Because cultural rhetorics scholarship doesn’t always fit within the boundaries of traditional academic journals, presses, and online forums, constellations provides a home for traditional articles of 4000-6000 words or the equivalent multimodal pieces, “new ideas” pieces, teaching conversation pieces, and forms we haven’t imagined yet.

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constellations as a publishing space invites submissions from scholars, teachers, artists, activists, and community members. The content of the work accepted focuses on cultural rhetorics theories, methodologies and methods, histories, pedagogies, cultures, power, knowledge, and meaning-making practices. constellations encourages non-traditional pieces, particularly those that push boundaries of style, form, content, and media in their composition and presentation.

Traditional and non-traditional works are welcome from various disciplines and areas: African American, African, and Black Studies, American Indian & Indigenous Studies, Asian & Pacific American Studies, Chicanx/Latinx Studies, Postcolonial & Decolonial Studies, Queer, Gender & Women’s Studies, Disability Studies, Performance & Embodiment Studies, Working-class Studies, Transnational and Translingual Studies, and more. 

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Publications with pieces chosen for Pushcart Prize anthologies. Recognition of exceptional quality across poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

Lit Mags Featured in Pushcart Prize Anthologies

Essay-focused publications with works selected for Pushcart Prize anthologies. These journals have repeatedly identified nonfiction that resonates with Pushcart editors and readers.

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