We're pleased to announce that Andrew King is the new incoming editor of KB Journal. He's ready and waiting for your new submissions. Please email him at andyk@lsu.edu.
KB Journal publishes original scholarship that addresses, applies, repurposes, or challenges the teachings of Kenneth Burke, which include but are not limited to the major books and hundreds of articles by Burke, as well as the growing corpus of research material about Burke. It provides an outlet for integrating and critiquing the gamut of studies in communication, composition, English, gender, literature, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and technical writing.
Nurturing interdisciplinary understanding, development, and community among the different areas, KB Journal's goal, ultimately, is to build some stable knowledge to foster a better world.
All scholarly approaches are welcome and encouraged. Each essay, hypertext, or other project submitted for possible publication will be anonymously reviewed by a minimum of three associate editors or experts from a particular area. If a work is accepted for publication, it is published and the author or authors may take part in an online conversation about the issues raised in the publication. Once the conversation ends, the author or authors may submit a rejoinder, which functions as a second publication and continuation of the conversation.
Submissions for possible publication should be sent to the editor as a Word, RTF, or HTML file (or files) and should conform to the most recent style guide of the Modern Language Association (MLA) or American Psychological Association (APA). Authors must use in-text citations and provide a reference or works cited page at the end of the essay. Authors may also include explanatory endnotes. Hypertext or other projects requiring multiple files may be submitted on CD-ROM or via our FTP site. Each submission should include a letter of interest and cover page that includes the author's or authors' name(s), title, professional affiliation, mailing address, e-mail address, and telephone number. No author-identifying information should appear in the corpus of the text itself. Works submitted for review should not have appeared in any other published form.
If any part of the submission has been presented at a colloquy, conference, or convention, the date, time, and form of that presentation should be indicated in the cover letter. If the submission comes from the author's or authors' thesis or dissertation, the scholars who provided assistance and review for that process should be acknowledged.
In submitting to KB Journal, the author or authors agree to license the work under the Creative Commons License (i.e., essay, hypertext, forum contribution, research or book review, listserv conversation, and/or newsletter item). KB Journal, at its pleasure, may republish the work in forms such as anthologies, books, electronic formats, and other possible emerging technologies. All submitted material that does not conform to fair use policy must be accompanied with the appropriate letters of permission.
In submitting to KB Journal, the author or authors warrant that a) he/she/they will not submit the contribution for possible publication elsewhere while under review; b) the submission is original material; and c) appropriate credit has been given to and permission has been granted from others.
Inquiries and submissions should be addressed to the following:
New Submissions