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The Journal of the Short Story in English (JSSE) is published semi-annually in December and June by the Presses universitaires de Rennes (France), under the auspices of the Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur les Patrimoines en Lettres et Langues (CIRPaLL), the Department of English Language and Literature, the Service Commun de Documentation (SCD) and the Presses universitaires de Rennes.
The JSSE will publish articles on short stories and novellas in the form of essays (not exceeding 48,000 signs) and notes (not exceeding 12,000 signs).
Electronic submission is encouraged. Attach the file, in Microsoft Word format, to an e-mail addressed to gerald.preher@univ-angers.fr (Editor), colette.colligan@univ-angers.fr and xavier.lebrun@univ-angers.fr (Associate Editors); or to seltzercm@vcu.edu (North American Editor) and psbucke@uscsumter.edu (Associate North American Editor). Please also include the address of JSSE managing editor Joane Gautier (joane.gautier@univ-angers.fr).
Please specify the following in the body of the e-mail: title of the paper, a 150-word abstract, in English (and French if possible), a short contributor’s note, your name, current e-mail and postal addresses, and your institutional affiliation (if it isn’t obvious from your postal address).
We prefer submissions be sent as a Word document, as .doc or .docx. If you must submit a paper manuscript, please send only one copy to Gérald Preher, CIRPaLL/M. R. G. T., 5 bis bd Lavoisier, 49045 Angers cedex 01, France, or to Catherine Seltzer, Department of English, Virginia Commonwealth University, Hibbs Hall, Room 306, 900 Park Ave., Box 842005, Richmond, Virginia 23284-2005, USA. The manuscript will not be returned. Before your article can be sent out for review, you will be requested to send an electronic file.
It is understood that manuscripts submitted to the JSSE for consideration have not been published previously, in part or in whole, and are not simultaneously under consideration for publication elsewhere.
The author’s name and institutional affiliation are not to appear, so described, in the manuscript.
Manuscripts chosen for publication should conform to the footnote style of The MLA Style Manual (7th edition). All pages must be numbered.
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COPYRIGHT POLICY
Our current policy gives control of copyright for all material published in the Journal of the Short Story in English to the Presses universitaires de Rennes. (This has not always been the Journal’s policy, and so there are one or two pieces published in the JSSE for which copyright is controlled by the author.)
Authors transfer copyright to the Presses universitaires de Rennes by executing a contract written for this purpose. This enables us to register each individual contribution, and the issue as a whole, with the Bibliothèque Nationale de France Copyright Office, which in turn provides for remedies in the event of copyright infringement that would not be available if the work were not so registered.
In transferring the work to the Presses universitaires de Rennes, the author does not give up all rights. The Presses universitaires de Rennes grant the contributor the right, upon request, to republish the work in revised or unrevised form in a book written or edited by the author provided that, in the judgment of the JSSE editors, the proposed use of the work is not in direct competition with the JSSE. Each copy containing our material that is reproduced or distributed must bear the following copyright notice:
Copyright © [year of the copyright] by Presses universitaires de Rennes. Journal of the Short Story in English: Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle [issue number] (Autumn / Spring, year): page numbers. Reprinted with permission.
Permission is granted for non-exclusive world rights in the English language only.
However, the Presses universitaires de Rennes may grant to parties other than the author permission to republish the work.
[Note: This description of copyright policy is provided for information only and is not legally binding; only a contract executed by the University Press and the author has any legal force.]