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Call for Applications:
2024 Feminist Formations and NWSA Paper Award (NWSA Membership is required)

Feminist Formations is proud to announce a new award, in collaboration with the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA). The Feminist Formations - NWSA Scholarly and Creative Work Competition is now open.

The Feminist Formations - National Women’s Studies Association annual competition will select one winner whose work will be published in Feminist Formations and receive an award of $500. The competition is open to scholars at all ranks, including independent scholars and artists. Multiple modes of knowledge production will be considered, including, but not limited to traditional scholarly articles, essays, poetry, and visual imagery. We are particularly interested in work that contributes to Black, Indigenous, and women of color feminisms; trans feminist studies; critical disability studies; and transnational feminisms. We also seek work that contributes to the journal’s mission to support “robust interdisciplinary, intersectional, and transnational feminist scholarship that can inspire incisive and politically meaningful analyses and action.”

Submissions are due by June 30, 2024 at Feminist Formations and NWSA Paper Award. Applicants must be current NWSA members. We cannot consider submissions that have been previously published or are currently being reviewed by other journals.

Manuscripts must adhere to the publishing guidelines of Feminist Formations, found at: https://feministformations.submittable.com/submit. Please contact the Feminist Formations Editorial Assistant (email: feministformations@oregonstate.edu) with questions or concerns about the submission process.

Feminist Formations is housed in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Oregon State University. It is published three times a year by the John Hopkins University Press. For more information, visit www.feministformations.org

The National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), established in 1977, is a professional organization dedicated to leading the field of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. For more information, visit www.nwsa.org

Feminist Formations invites submissions that reflect the journal’s mission to cultivate a forum where feminists from around the world articulate research, theory, activism, teaching, and learning.   

An interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal, we publish innovative work by scholars, activists, artists, poets, and practitioners in feminist, gender, and sexuality studies. Our subject matter includes national, global, and transnational feminist thought and practice; the cultural and social politics of genders and sexualities; and historical and contemporary studies of gendered experience. The journal values established and emerging lines of inquiry and methods that engage the complexities of gender as implicated in forms of power such as race, ethnicity, class, nation, migration, ability, and religion.


We are particularly interested in cutting-edge feminist work in the following areas:  

BIPOC Feminisms • Asian and Asian American Feminisms • Pacific Islander/Oceanic Feminisms • Black Feminisms • Borderlands Studies • Chicanx/Latinx/Chicane/Latine Feminisms • Critical Ethnic Studies • Critical Youth Studies • Critical Geography • Cultural Studies • Disability Justice and Crip Feminisms • Indigenous Feminisms • Performance Studies • Posthuman Studies • Public Scholarship • Queer of Color Critique • Queer Theory • Feminist Affect Theory • Rhetoric • Trans Feminisms • Transnational Feminisms • Visual Cultures


For any questions about the journal in general or about submitting, please feel free to contact our Editorial Assistants, aman agah and Eric Warren, at feministformations@oregonstate.edu.

Submissions should be prepared in the following manner:   

• Check to make sure that your manuscript falls within the Feminist Formations guidelines of 8,000-11,000 words. The word count includes notes. 
• Anonymize: remove all identifying information from the document, and document 'headers.' The exception is the cover page, which should contain the author’s institutional affiliation and contact information (i.e. postal address, phone number, and e-mail address). 
• Submit your complete manuscript through Submittable in three files as follows:  1st file) Cover page in the text box provided;  2nd file) Abstract and keywords to be anonymized and uploaded;  3rd file) Complete manuscript, including the abstract and keywords.  Files must be in Word .doc (NOT .docx or .rtf). 
• Follow the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) 17 author-date system with parenthetical citations. All text, including quotations, must be double-spaced.