JAWS is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes new art and writing from early- to mid-career researchers and practitioners working across creative disciplines. JAWS publishes writing about art and writing as art. We welcome practice-based research, visual essays, book reviews and interviews by emergent practitioners and researchers. Supporting criticality and experimentation in arts writing, the journal connects authors to an international audience. JAWS welcomes divergent and/or unconventional forms, as well as more traditional submissions.

JAWS is an international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes new art and writing from early- to mid-career researchers and practitioners working across artistic mediums.

Founded as the Journal of Arts Writing by Students at Chelsea School of Art in 2013 and published by Intellect since 2015, the journal was the first of its kind entirely dedicated to students' work in artistic research.

JAWS publishes writing about art and writing as art. We welcome practice-based research, visual essays, book reviews and interviews by practitioners and researchers. We encourage divergent and/or unconventional forms, as well as more traditional submissions. As it stands, we only accept submissions in the English language, but our aim is to connect international contributors with an international audience.

As a platform, we foster criticality and experimentation. The support and expertise of an established network of editors and peer reviewers allow for co-produced reflection and discussion, guiding our contributors to publish reimagined approaches to writing in artistic scholarship and creative practice. We aim to balance such experiments with the academic rigour of peer review alongside attentive and diligent editorial processes.

Before submitting work, please ensure that your submission complies with the Intellect House Style Guide here.

We invite the following;

• Academic submissions up to 6000 words
• Artistic Practice and/or visual essays up to 5000 words / 12 images
• Interviews up to 4000 words
• Exhibition, book, event reviews between 1000 and 3000 word
• Reflective pieces between 1000 and 3000 words

We only accept submissions in MS Word - do not send PDFs.

Please send three files to editors.jawsjournal@gmail.com

• your article (which should include an abstract of 100-200 words, 6-8 keywords or two word phrases that are not in the title, and your references list in Harvard Style)
• a folder with your images at 300dpis
• a cover document with the following information:

Article’s title
Author’s full name, university affiliation, most recent programme/role
orcid number
Bio up to 200 words
Email and postal address

We are a volunteer-run journal so we appreciate your patience during the peer-reviewing process. If you want to join our peer-reviewing pool or our editorial team, please contact editors.jawsjournal@gmail.com

Any queries should be made to editors.jawsjournal@gmail.com
We aim to respond to your queries within 72 hours