JOURNAL OF BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE STUDIES
VOLUME 17
GUEST EDITOR: JEFF ARNAL
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
VOLUME 17: TIME CYCLES
Following the themes of time, movement, action, performance, and gesture highlighted in the Fall 2025 Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center exhibition and conference, we invite proposals which respond to the theme “TIME CYCLES.”
Experimentation was a fulcrum of the College’s radical legacy. BMC redefined the relationship between art, learning, and life: painters collaborated with poets, actors with designers, choreographers with architects, musicians with mathematicians. We welcome proposals which investigate, re-invigorate, and spark curiosity about the collaborative history of time-based experimentation at BMC. Proposals that explore how the legacy of BMC flourishes in new forms today are also welcome.
As always, we will consider proposals on any BMC-related topic and in any medium adaptable to our digital format. Please take a look through our previous volumes to explore the wide range of media we publish, from articles to images, poetry to video, book reviews to interviews. We especially encourage presenters at the Fall 2025 ReVIEWING Conference to submit proposals.
To submit, we ask that you please prepare an abstract or proposal before submitting a full work. Your abstract/proposal should be 1-2 paragraphs (250 words). You may attach images that support your proposal. If you are submitting poetry, you may submit up to 3 poems. Our editorial team will review your materials, and if there is interest, we will write back to you with an invitation to submit a full manuscript/work.
Please submit abstracts/proposals of 250 words or less no later than January 18, 2026.
Send as an email attachment to: journalbmcstudies@gmail.com
Notes on preparing a manuscript: Works published in the Journal are prepared for a general, interdisciplinary audience, and should limit technical terms (unless explained) and discipline-specific idiom. At this time we are only able to accept written contributions in English.
The review process will follow standards applicable to the work submitted. For written works we recommend not exceeding 7,000 words. Please submit text in Microsoft Word. Citations should normally follow the Chicago Manual of Style. For template, discipline-specific submission, file naming, and formatting guidelines, see the Journal Formatting Guide.
Images should be sized appropriately for Web display and include captions or identifying information.
Contributors are responsible for obtaining high-resolution images, and for acquiring any permissions that are needed for any images or written material (i.e., poems, excerpts from unpublished texts) covered by copyright, including paying any associated fees for use. Authors may consult with the editors about what permissions are required and the process of receiving those permissions before submitting an article or creative work. The editors can provide resources for the permission process.
Copyright for each work published is held by the respective author. The journal does not ask for notice from the author for further publication but does require annotated credit as the location of first publication. Works published previously may be submitted; please contact the editors to discuss copyright. The selection and arrangement of works in each issue is copyright Journal of Black Mountain College Studies and The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center.