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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.

The journal’s Editor-in-Chief and/or designated Editorial Board Member will oversee Guest Editor appointments and Special Issue proposals, checking their content for relevance and ensuring the suitability of the material for the journal. The papers published in a Special Issue will be collected and displayed on a dedicated page of the journal’s website. Further information on MDPI's Special Issue polices and Guest Editor responsibilities can be found here. For any inquiries related to a Special Issue, please contact the Editorial Office.

Open for Submission

Neo-Slave Narratives and Afro-Diasporic Literature and Culture

Guest Editor: Justine Baillie
Viewed by 196

Deadline: 1 June 2026

Open for Submission

Echoes of Shakespeare: Intertextual Dialogues Across Centuries

Guest Editor: Rachel Wifall
Viewed by 130

Deadline: 1 June 2026

Open for Submission

Shakespeare, Adaptation and Storytelling in Children’s Literature

Guest Editors: Laura Tosi, Rachele Bassan
Viewed by 871

Deadline: 30 April 2026

Open for Submission

The Thinker as Artist and the Artist as Thinker—Literature and the History of Political Philosophy

Guest Editor: Dustin Gish
Viewed by 461

Deadline: 30 April 2026

Open for Submission

Worlds Apart and Worlds Together: Migration, Imagination and Identity in 21st Century Fiction

Guest Editor: Nataly Tcherepashenets
Viewed by 556

Deadline: 31 January 2026

Open for Submission

Literature on Displacement, Exile, and Migration

Guest Editors: Chingyen Y. Mayer, Binbin Fu
Viewed by 1,181

Deadline: 15 December 2025

Closed

Memory and Women’s Studies: Between Trauma and Positivity

Guest Editors: Irene Mizrahi, Claire Sorin
4 articles | Viewed by 10,761

Deadline: 31 October 2025

Closed

Defiant Asymmetries: Asian American Literature Without Borders

Guest Editors: King-Kok Cheung, Robert Kyriakos Smith, Hannah Nahm
4 articles | Viewed by 5,300

Deadline: 31 May 2025

Closed

Literary Experiments with Cognition

Guest Editors: Christine A. Knoop, Aili Pettersson Peeker
7 articles | Viewed by 12,302

Deadline: 15 May 2025

Closed

Realpolitik in Renaissance and Early Modern British Literature

Guest Editor: Carolyn Brown
4 articles | Viewed by 9,639

Deadline: 31 October 2024

Closed

Constructions of Childhood(s) in Fiction and Nonfiction for Children

Guest Editors: Sarah Hoem Iversen, Brianne Jaquette
11 articles | Viewed by 32,587

Deadline: 15 April 2024

Closed

Greek Literature and Society in Late Antiquity

Guest Editor: David Hernández de la Fuente
6 articles | Viewed by 25,596

Deadline: 31 August 2023

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Literature - ISSN 2410-9789