Call for Submissions

 Patterson Prize 2023

Simone de Beauvoir Studies

Deadline: March 1, 2023, 11:59pm EST

Award: $500 USD and publication in Simone de Beauvoir Studies

The Editorial Committee of Simone de Beauvoir Studies is pleased to
announce the third annual Patterson Prize competition. The award is named
after Yolanda Astarita Patterson, the editor in chief of the journal for
thirty years (1985-2015). The Patterson Prize is awarded annually to a work
that demonstrates excellence in writing while also embodying modes of
thought and expression characteristic of Beauvoir’s oeuvre. We especially
invite submissions on topics relevant to Beauvoir’s legacy such as gender
and sexuality, race and culture, literature, existentialism, global
politics, and others.

Hallmarks of Beauvoir’s writing include a capacity to speak to the most
pressing issues of our time; rigorous thinking that attends to the
complexity and ambiguity of lived experience; a remarkable openness to new
ideas; detailed attention to marginalized voices and first-person accounts
of phenomena; the capacity to utilize multiple modes of expression; and a
courageous insistence on challenging oppression in all its forms. The
Patterson Prize is an international, multi-genre competition that welcomes
outstanding submissions from authors writing from all cultural,
disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and stylistic perspectives. For the 2023
award cycle, we welcome submissions in English. The committee will review
French submissions for the 2024 award cycle.

Submissions should advance an original and impactful thesis that expresses
cutting-edge scholarship and writing; their quality should be consistent
with that of the texts routinely published in Simone de Beauvoir Studies.
Purely exegetical papers, papers that explore introductory themes in
Beauvoir studies, and short or underdeveloped papers are not appropriate
for the award.

Eligibility: Any work of previously unpublished writing authored by
individuals at any stage of their careers who have not published a
monograph in the area of submission at the time of submission. Submissions
should be 8000 words or less inclusive of notes and references.
For a detailed explanation of submission requirements, please see the
About/Downloads tab at www.brill.com/sdbs. Please direct all questions
about the Patterson Prize to Jennifer McWeeny, Editor in Chief, [log in to unmask]
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-- 
Sophia Millman and Tatiana Llaguno
Editorial Assistants *Simone de Beauvoir Studies*
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