EXTENDED DEADLINE! Friday, Dec. 9 midnight PST

The SCMS War and Media Studies Special Interest Group has reopened its Graduate Student Writing Award! Submit your essay by Friday, November, 18th 11:59 pm PST!

Extended Deadline! Friday, Dec. 9 midnight PST

In exciting news, we’ve partnered with the highly respected Media, War and Conflict (MWC) journal that is published through Sage. The first-place winner will receive a $100 cash prize and have the opportunity to be published in MWC.

The winning author(s) will work with the MWC editors to ensure the article is publication ready. Once deemed ready, the article will be integrated into MWC’s publication schedule.

***Submission Deadline: Friday, November, 18th 11:59 pm PST. 

EXTENDED DEADLINE! Friday, Dec. 9 midnight PST

To target your essay to MWC’s publication focus, please review the journal description:

https://journals.sagepub.com/home/mwc

Media, War & Conflict is a major international, peer-reviewed journal that maps the shifting arena of war and conflict in media environments and ecologies. It explores cultural, political, social and technological transformations in the conduct, outcome and consequences of intensively mediated war.

Media, War & Conflict is the first inter- and multi-disciplinary journal to be dedicated to this field. It publishes substantial research articles, essays and reviews. It solicits submissions from academics, professionals and practitioners. The editors are looking for innovative work that contributes to existing debates and identifies emerging challenges in the convergence of media, war and conflict.

Topic coverage includes how media, war and conflict converge in subjects such as:

• Journalism and witnessing
• Security, politics and militaries
• Art, aesthetics, photography, film and popular culture
• Technologies, spatialities and architectures
• Aftermath, reconciliation, peace processes
• Memory, commemoration and archives
• Identity and embodiment
• Practices, cultures and ethics
• Audiences and engagement
• Narratives, legitimation of war and peace

MWC Style Guideline: While the MWC uses the Sage Harvard citation style, submissions can be in the author’s field-appropriate citation style. Once the winner(s) are selected, the authors can revise their citations according to the Sage Harvard guidelines.

Please see the link for guidelines on artwork, charts, copyrights, and citations:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hventeBXHKWO06l3uqHuyNjhb12EddOL/edit

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War & Media Studies Essay Contest Process:

*Submit essays to WMS grad rep Vivienne.Tailor@cgu.edu with the application form. (Red link below).

*Do NOT submit contest essays to the journal directly.

*Please see the contest scoring rubric at the link below:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O8Jt2-_hVqNn56Qf0midD4fFZeF4UCR_I9Jm2O7Xg1Y/edit

*The winning essay will receive comprehensive feedback from the three judges. We are unable to provide feedback for all submissions.

War & Media Studies Essay Contest Rules:

• Entrants must be members of SCMS and the War and Media Studies SIG for the year in which they are submitting
• Entrants must be enrolled in a recognized program of graduate study at the time of submitting work to the competition.
• Essays should be between 7,000 and 8,000 words (including references) and be formatted as PDFs.
• Include a 100-150 word abstract and 4-6 keywords.
• Submissions may have been prepared as coursework or for part of dissertation or thesis work.
• Essays must not have been published or accepted for publication at the time of submission.
• The author’s name and affiliation should not appear anywhere on the essay (not in the header or footer). An APPLICATION FORM, to be submitted as a separate document, is available here.
• Applicants may only submit one essay in any given year.
• Co-authored works will share the first-place $100 cash prize between authors.
• Previous winners may not submit in the year immediately following their award.
• All updated deadlines for submissions will be announced on the War and Media Studies Website, Facebook page, and Twitter.
• The winner will be formally announced at the 2023 virtual pre-conference SCMS War and Media SIG meeting.
• For past winners and article titles, please see the general contest page: https://www.warandmediastudies.org/?page_id=4793