Limina publishes scholarly articles of 5000 to 7000 words from any field within the humanities and social sciences. Please refer to the editorial policy for comprehensive details of the appraisal process, and the style guide for information on the correct format for submissions. Authors retain copyright of their articles and may republish them anywhere provided that Limina is acknowledged as the original place of publication.

Submit your article as an email attachment in MS Word format to Limina Journal. In a separate document, please also provide:

• Your name
• Your email address
• Your institutional affiliation
• The title of the article
• A 150 word abstract
• List a minimum of 8 keywords for your article
• A statement certifying that this article is not under consideration elsewhere

Reviews (800 words) of works published, performed, or broadcast within the past two years are welcome (no footnotes allowed). We're looking for reviews of books, film, television, theatre, art, and cultural events. Submit your inquiries regarding book and cultural reviews to [email protected]

The books available for review are displayed on the Limina Facebook page. Alternatively, you may email the Book Reviews Editor with a suggestion for a book you are interested in reviewing. We can source it for you if you cannot obtain a copy of the book.

If you have not previously written an academic book review, this is no barrier to requesting a book to review, and indeed, we encourage and publish reviews from established scholars, graduate scholars, and senior undergraduate students. However, the following guidelines will help you write your first review:

• A review is not just a summary of each chapter (for a monograph), but rather is a balanced assessment of the book’s contribution to its academic field, with a greater focus on significant themes or issues within the book;
• For monographs, if possible, discuss the work within the author’s other publications;
• In the case of edited collections, do not describe every contribution instead pick out those that are, in your opinion, significant or important;
• For all titles, locate the reviewed work within the broader scholarship of the field;
• As Limina is not a specialised journal – that is, we publish work from any discipline within the humanities – indicate if the book is intended for specialists or a broader audience and assume that the reader has neither read the book nor is overly familiar with its specialised academic field;
• The word limit for reviews is 800–1200 words, not including the bibliographic information that is to be provided in place of a title;
• Footnotes are not used in reviews. Please use in-text citations (i.e., Harvard style referencing).

Please direct all general questions, as well as requests for books, to the Book Reviews Editor at [email protected].

Limina accepts unsolicited submissions of critical essays, long-form literary reviews, translations of scholarly work and academically informed reflections from across Australia and the world. They can range from 3000-4500 words and must be written in a scholarly and professional manner abiding by Limina's style guide. Subject matters can be broad for our general edition, although would need to dovetail with the theme of our special edition.

Submit your piece as an email attachment in MS Word format to Limina Journal. In a separate document, please also provide:

• Your name
• Your email address
• Your institutional affiliation
• The title of the article
• A 150 word abstract
• List a minimum of 8 keywords for your article
• A statement certifying that this article is not under consideration elsewhere.

In addition to scholarly articles, Limina Journal also publishes creative works. We welcome submissions of creative writing from across Australia and the world.

We welcome pieces of:  

• Fiction, creative non-fiction, dramatic works, short stories (up to 5,000 words)
• Poetry (up to 3 poems, up to 3 pages each)  
• Flash fiction (up to 3 works)

Submit your piece as an email attachment in MS Word format to Limina Journal. In a separate document, please also provide:

• Your name
• Your email address
• Your institutional affiliation
• The title of the article
• A 150 word abstract
• List a minimum of 8 keywords for your article

A statement certifying that this article is not under consideration elsewhere.