[ATTW-L] New journal announcement & call for submissions

[Liz Lane]

The *Spark *Editorial Collective is pleased to share the call for the first
edition of our journal. Below you'll find an abbreviated version. For more
details, check out the call in its entirety, which is attached to this
email. We welcome inquiries at 4C4Equality at gmail.com


Best,


Liz Lane
Assistant Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication
University of Memphis
etlane at memphis.edu

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*Spark: A 4C4Equality JournalPublished by Working & Writing for Change
<https://www.parlorpress.com/workingandwritingforchange>/New City Community
Press <http://newcitycommunitypress.com/>Spark is an online-only,
open-access, peer-reviewed journal published annually. It provides a forum
for activist students, teachers, and researchers in writing, rhetoric, and
literacy studies to articulate the public and disciplinary value of their
social justice pursuits. Such justice work may be localized within a
school, neighborhood, or campus, or as far-reaching as regional, national,
and international efforts. It may intersect with movements such as Black
Lives Matter, or campaigns such as Defend DACA or Families Belong Together
& Free. Ultimately, the work published in Spark speaks to the power of
intersectional and collaborative efforts working for political
change.Unlike academic journals that focus on narrow disciplinary
arguments, Spark provides readers with an inside view of activism and
community organizing being done by those in writing, rhetoric, and literacy
studies. Spark’s goals are to amplify contributors’ work, to help
contributors build coalitions with one another, and to inspire readers to
get involved in this work or to develop their own.2019 Call for
SubmissionsOn 6 April 2018, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a
“zero tolerance policy” on illegal immigration. Acting on Sessions’ decree
and the Trump administration’s policies, the US Department of Homeland
Security deemed that any adult making illegal entry into the U.S. had
committed a misdemeanor and thus fit the criteria for deportation. Under
this policy, if these adults were accompanied by their children, then
border agents separated the families. The Department of Justice deported
the parents, and the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of
Refugee Resettlement (ORR) put the children into detention centers around
the U.S. The Department of Homeland Security reported that border agents
separated 2,342 children from parents between May 5 and June 9.Shocking
images from these detention centers emerged in June 2018, including photos
of children corralled into cages, sleeping on floors, and living in tents
in the 100+ degree Texas heat. These images were accompanied by details of
cruelty and abuse, such as the story of a nursing child being dragged from
her mother’s breast and the stories of children in these detention centers
being forcibly drugged by ORR employees.These images and stories have
galvanized long-time activists as well as many people who don’t regularly
take action related to immigrants’ rights, as many people took to social
media to direct this outrage at family separation and child abuse. Their
online interventions ask people to take individual action by educating
oneself and donating money to organizations like Refugee and Immigrant
Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) and Annunciation House.
They also called on people to work collectively by participating in
mobilizations, such as the Families Belong Together protests that took
place on June 30th in Washington, DC and cities around the U.S., as well as
protests outside detention centers around the country. Finally, these calls
ask people to help build existing organizations and become part of the
movement to stop the Trump administration’s policies and institute a humane
system for immigrants and asylum seekers in the U.S.The 2019 edition of
Spark reflects on the ways that individual, collective, and organizational
action are integral to this fight and more broadly to all struggles for
justice, equity, and liberation. Furthermore, the edition asks contributors
to explore how the foci of writing, rhetoric, and literacy
studies--reading, writing, speaking, and listening--undergird individual,
collection, and organizational actions. Submit Your WorkWe invite
submissions of alphabetic texts in Word .docx form to 4c4equality at gmail.com
<4c4equality at gmail.com>. We also invite submissions that are “born
digital,” that is to say work that involves multimodal composing and must
be presented online, such as podcasts, videos, photo essays, or
downloadable resources. Multimodal work can be submitted as a Google Drive
link to the above address. We welcome inquiries.Deadline for Submission for
April 2019 Issue: 1 October 2018.*
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