General Call for Submissions
April 21, 2026
Do you have BC-focused scholarly research or digital media work that you are passionate about? Are you interested in sharing your work with an interdisciplinary audience that informs academics, government officials, and general readers? Consider submitting to BC Studies!
BC Studies publishes original, peer reviewed works on British Columbia’s social, cultural, political, and economic life, past and present.
The journal provides a regional link between disciplines in the arts and social sciences, between larger analytical literatures and local archival collections, and between the scholarly community and passionate generalists.
We invite submissions from a range of disciplines, such as anthropology, First Nations and Indigenous studies, geography, history, linguistics, sociology, and more.
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Submission Guidelines:
Articles (7,000-9,000 words)
Dealing with all aspects of the place called British Columbia, its landscapes and its cultural, economic, social, and political life, past and present.
Research Notes (3,000-5,000 words)
Attends to diverse knowledge practices, political projects, alliances and/or engagements in any field of research that relate to British Columbia. These are shorter essays that may include research stories, works in progress, innovative methodologies, problems or dilemmas encountered during research, etc. We encourage critical (i.e. not solely descriptive) work that is grounded in scholarly literatures within relevant fields of knowledge production.
Recently Published Research Notes
Case Comments (3,000-6,000 words)
Engages with the scholarship and significance of important legal decisions relevant to British Columbia.
Recently Published Case Comments
Scholarly Podcasts
Scholarly Podcasts may present original research results and/or engage existing scholarship about British Columbia in new ways.
Podcast submissions should be accompanied by i.) a text that is between 1,000 and 2,000 words in length and that situates the podcast within the relevant scholarly literature; and ii.) a full bibliography of the research behind the podcast (that includes and goes beyond the references cited in the accompanying text).
Soundworks
Soundworks engage with sonic expressions, phenomena, or explorations of sounds in, about, or of British Columbia. Soundworks may be site-specific and/or related to particular questions, intentions, or creative processes, and may be approached from various epistemological perspectives, including activist, phenomenological, ecological, cultural, historical, artistic, political, or ethical. Possible forms include narrative or non-narrative voice, music, soundscape, storytelling, collected or created sound and noise.
These submissions should be accompanied by a short text, between 250 and 2,000 words in length, that directly relates to the audio piece.
Photo Essays (3,000-7,500 words)
Presents scholarly findings about some aspect of British Columbia that rely to a large extent on visual evidence. Photo Essays include approximately ten to twelve images.
Recently Published Photo Essays
Digital Media
Digital Media submissions may include digital storytelling; digital curation online or in museum, gallery, or archival settings; place-based and/or community-led gaming; language revitalization apps; and/or digital mapping including participatory GIS, community or environmental mapping, and story mapping.
Digital Media submissions should be accompanied by i.) a short text that is between 1,000 and 2,000 words in length and that situates the digital media within the relevant scholarly literature; and ii.) a full bibliography of the research behind the digital media (that includes and goes beyond the references cited in the accompanying text).