We encourage any and all postgraduate students,including those on taught programmes, to submit their work to the journal for consideration. 

We welcome all submissions on the theme of: 

‘Contested Realities: Paradigm Shifts in the SSEES Region’.

This issue’s theme is not intended to be restrictive, but rather to stimulate engagement. We encourage you to be creative in your interpretation of it.  

Article submission deadline: 1 February 2026. 

Review submission deadline: 1 March 2026.

Guidelines

All submissions must adhere to MHRA style guidelines.

 Journal Articles: 6,000-8,000 words. Must include an abstract (200 words maximum). 

 Disciplines could include, but are not limited to:

§  Media

§  Politics

§  History 

§  Sociology

§  Critical Area Studies

§  Security Studies

§  Anthropology

§  Literature & Culture

§  Economics

Book Reviews: 800 words maximum. 

Suggested titles for review:

§  Patrice C. McMahon, Paula M. Pickering, and Dorota Pietrzyk-Reeves, Activism in Hard Times in Central and Eastern Europe: People Power (Routledge, 2024)

§  Svitlana Biedarieva, Ambicoloniality and War: The Ukrainian-Russian Case (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)

§  Jonathan Littell and Antoine d’Agata, An Inconvenient Place, trans. by Charlotte Mandell (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2024) 

§  Oliver Moody, Baltic: The Future of Europe (John Murray Publishers, 2025)

§  Chelsi West Ohueri, Encountering Race in Albania: An Ethnography of the Communist Afterlife (Cornell University Press, 2025)

§  Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, Our Dear Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation (PublicAffairs, 2025)

§  Jovana Diković, The Laissez-Faire Peasant: Post-Socialist Rural Development in Serbia (UCL Press, 2025)

§  Diana T. Kudaibergen, What does it Mean to be Kazakhstani: Power, Identity and Nation-Building (Hurst Publishers, 2025)

§   Branka Bogdan, The New Yugoslav Woman: Reproductive Regulation in Socialist Yugoslavia (Indiana University Press, 2025)

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Film Reviews: 800 words maximum. 

Suggested titles for review:

§  The Happiest Man in the World, Bosnia (2022)

§  R.M.N, Romania (2022)

§  The Zone of Interest, Poland (2023)

§  2000 Metres to Andriivka, Ukraine (2025)

§  Taming the Garden, Georgia (2021)

§  Green Border, Poland, Belarus (2023)

§  Maria’s Silence, Latvia, Lithuania (2024)

§  Come and See, 40th Anniversary Review, USSR (1985)

Art/Exhibition Reviews: 800 words maximum.

Translations: 8,000 words maximum.

We also welcome submissions of original poetry/prose/visual art.

SLOVO Brief: 

We are pleased to share that, this year, SLOVO will be publishing short-form, supplementary material on our Substack, SLOVO Brief We encourage anyone who would like to be featured to submit their work. This should be shorter-form content, c.500-1,000 words, relevant to any aspect of the SSEES region. We are eager to feature comment, analysis and interviews, as well as original works of poetry, prose and visual art, so please don’t hesitate to get in touch! 

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