Submission Keywords
Theme, genre, author, and methodology keywords used in the submissions portal. These keywords help convention organizers schedule your submissions into appropriate convention sessions with other similar convention submissions to facilitate lively Q&A discussion.
During submission you will be asked to choose keywords from controlled lists.
Keywords are grouped into four categories: theme, genre, author, and critical methodology.
Theme keywords are appropriate for all submission types while genre, author, and critical methodology apply most specifically to critical essays.
Submitters may select up to four keywords across any of the four categories, however they deem appropriate for their submission.
These keywords will be used by convention organizers to help schedule your submissions into appropriate convention sessions with other similar convention submissions to facilitate lively Q&A discussion.
Theme (Papers, Roundtables, & RITR)
Addiction / Mental Health
Animals / Animal Rights
Birth / Rebirth
Body Image / Beauty / Ugliness
Capitalism / Industry
Career / Work
Change / Transformation
Childhood / Adolescence
Convention Theme: Techne
Death / Trauma / Grief
Disability
Diversity / Equity / Inclusion / Belonging
Dreams / The Unconscious
Education / Learning
Environmentalism
Family / Community
Friendship / Enmity
Gender / Gender Equality
Hispanic / Latine
Holocaust / Genocide
Humor / Satire
Identity / Ethnicity
Imperialism / Colonization
LGBTQ+
Loneliness / Abandonment
Movement / Music
Nationality / Patriotism
New Beginnings
Postcolonialism
Resilience / Resistance
Romance / Love
Social Class / Classism
Survival / Cultural Survival
Theology / Atheism
Utopia / Dystopia / Apocalypse
Virtues / Vices
Voyages / Travel
War / Veterans
Author (Papers Only)
Atwood, Margaret
Austen, Jane
Baldwin, James
Brontë Sisters
Cather, Willa
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Cruz, Angie
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Morrison, Toni
O’Connor, Flannery
Poe, Edgar Allan
Shakespeare, William
Shelley, Mary
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Woolf, Virginia
Genre (Papers Only)
Autobiography / Memoir
Bildungsroman / Coming-of-Age Story
Confessional Literature
Drama
Epistolary Literature
Fairy Tale / Folklore / Myth
Fantasy
Flash Fiction
Gothic
Graphic Narrative
Horror
Poetry
Magical Realism
Metafiction
Mystery / Detective Fiction
Nature Writing
Nonfiction
Realism
Romance
Satire
Science Fiction
Speculative Fiction / Weird Lit
Stream of Consciousness
Critical Methodology (Papers Only)
Disability Studies
Ecocriticism / Ecofeminism
Feminist Criticism
Gender Studies
New Criticism / Formalism / Close Reading
New Historicism
Postcolonialism
Psychoanalytic / Psychological Criticism
Queer Theory / LGBTQIA+ Theory
Trauma Theory