Special Issues
Literature publishes Special Issues to create collections of papers on specific topics, with the aim of building a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas and research directions. Special Issues are led by Guest Editors, who are experts on the topic and all Special Issue submissions follow MDPI's standard editorial process.
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Neo-Slave Narratives and Afro-Diasporic Literature and Culture
Deadline: 1 June 2026
Echoes of Shakespeare: Intertextual Dialogues Across Centuries
Deadline: 1 June 2026
Shakespeare, Adaptation and Storytelling in Children’s Literature
Deadline: 30 April 2026
The Thinker as Artist and the Artist as Thinker—Literature and the History of Political Philosophy
Deadline: 30 April 2026
Worlds Apart and Worlds Together: Migration, Imagination and Identity in 21st Century Fiction
Deadline: 31 January 2026
Literature on Displacement, Exile, and Migration
Deadline: 15 December 2025
Memory and Women’s Studies: Between Trauma and Positivity
Deadline: 31 October 2025
Defiant Asymmetries: Asian American Literature Without Borders
Deadline: 31 May 2025
Literary Experiments with Cognition
Deadline: 15 May 2025
Realpolitik in Renaissance and Early Modern British Literature
Deadline: 31 October 2024
Constructions of Childhood(s) in Fiction and Nonfiction for Children
Deadline: 15 April 2024
Greek Literature and Society in Late Antiquity
Deadline: 31 August 2023
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