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Call for Papers

Journal of Interactive Drama
Immersive Narrative Experiences
GENERAL CALL FOR PAPERS
The Journal of Interactive Drama (ISSN 1994-1250) is an online peer-reviewed journal on immersive narrative experiences such as scenario-based interactive drama freeform live action roleplaying games, virtual reality, interactive theatre, and other immersive literatures or drama, providing a forum for serious discussion of virtual reality, LARP, narrative constructs, theatre, live roleplaying game theory, design, and practice. Two to three issues per volume are published annually. The journal provides a forum for the discussion of any of the various scenario-based theatre-style live action roleplaying games, freeforms, interactive dramas, virtual reality experiences, and invites contributions in all areas of immersive literature, theory, design, and practice for educational, entertainment, and recreational roleplay. Formal and informal essays, articles, papers, and critical reviews are also welcome.

This is a peer-reviewed journal that may include formal papers and informal essays for and by the roleplaying community from a wide variety of disciplines. The focus is general enough so that authors should feel comfortable submitting material of either a formal or informal nature within a rather generous range of contexts, albeit all submissions are subjected to a blind peer-review and should be appropriate to a serious and thoughtful discussion -- we encourage articles, essays, and formal papers on all manner of immersive narrative, live roleplaying, freeform, interactive drama, and virtual reality topics. Discussions of related immersive narrative, ludology, techniques, and good solid critical book and roleplay scenario or event reviews are quite welcome as well. As this is a multi-disciplinary journal, material related to a wide range of immersive experiences, scenario-based learning, social psychology, critical theory, performance studies, popular culture, design, virtual reality creation, and more as they intersect with interactive drama and virtual realities are also welcome. Pure design pieces related to experience creation, scenario construction, and review are also encouraged. Each issue will typically showcase one to three longform or four to six shortform interactive drama freeform live action roleplaying scenarios; creative scenario submissions of this type are very sought after. Scenarios for submission should include a section of self-reflective critical thought and formal designer’s notes that discuss issues related to the creation of the piece as well as a formal section which reviews the author’s performance experiences with the scenario. Designer’s notes are also encouraged.

As an international journal, the language of publication is English. Submissions are accepted throughout the year.

Submissions are vetted by the submissions editor and assigned to editorial board members for blind peer review. Hardcopy submissions are not accepted.

E-mail submissions are accepted at editor@interactivedramas.info.

Include a cover page with your submission containing Your Name, Qualifications and Rank, Institutional Affiliation, Address, Email, Telephone, and a copy of the abstract for the submission. Please also attach a brief author’s biography of 150-250 words to be included in the contributor’s notes section of the published journal. The text of your submission should not have any identifying features.

Typically, submission review results are returned within two to three months. FastTrack Review is available to those who pay a fasttrack fee. Notification of results for fasttrack is typically returned within two to three weeks of submission. FastTrack submissions are not any more likely to be accepted for publication. For more information, contact the editors.

The journal is published online at http://www.interactivedramas.info/journal.htm.


Journal of Interactive Drama

A Multi-Discipline Peer-Reviewed Journal of
Immersive Narrative Experiences
Virtual Reality
Scenario-Based Theatre-Style Interactive Drama
Freeform Live Action Roleplaying Games
Drama and Theatre

Notes for Contributors

The Journal of Interactive Drama accepts electronic contributions only. Hardcopy submissions are not accepted.

E-mail submissions are accepted at editor@interactivedramas.info.

The Journal of Interactive Drama is a peer-reviewed journal which publishes one volume per year, typically with one to three issues per volume (the number of issues depends wholly upon number of acceptable submissions as we have no set publication schedule). Both Microsoft Word (6.0 or above, Windows format) and txt files are acceptable. Once received, manuscripts will be sent to reviewers immediately.

  1. Manuscripts submitted to Journal of Interactive Drama should follow the style sheet of the current MLA Handbook as appropriate. Scenario submissions may use informal formatting conventions as long as they stay within the guidelines here.
  2. If your submission has notes, please use footnotes, not endnotes.
  3. The font used is Times New Roman (11pt) - creative pieces, such as scenarios, may use other font sizes but should stay within the same font type. If you use a special font that is non-system, you must include a copy of the font file with your submission. Please do not use columns in your piece.
  4. Use a separate document sheet to include your name, title, affiliated institution, and contact information (email) as well as a brief author’s biography of 150-250 words to be included in the contributor’s notes.
  5. Include a brief summary or abstract of the submission with keywords.
  6. If you use illustrations or photographs, you must include all pertinent information as well as statements of permissions and copyrights to demonstrate you have the rights to include the images and that they may be published within the Journal of Interactive Drama under the same online and print rights as the accompanying paper. In the event of rights disputes, the author is responsible and liable for any material included in that author’s submission. In general, we discourage the use of photographs and illustrations.

Publishers wishing their books, products, or other materials reviewed may send hard or soft review copies to the editor's address above and a reviewer will be assigned.

The journal is published online at http://www.interactivedramas.info.

Questions regarding the journal can be addressed to editor@interactivedramas.info.






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