CFP Friendship in Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Film and Television (9/17/2026)

This seems relevant to our endeavours:

Friendship in Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Film and Television

deadline for submissions:
August 17, 2026

full name / name of organization:
Jade Dillon-Craig, NTNU

contact email:
jade.dillon.craig@ntnu.no

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/06/12/friendship-in-children%E2%80%99s-and-young-adult-literature-film-and-television

Friendship occupies a central place in children’s and young adult literature, film, and television. It functions as a key site through which processes of Bildung, selfhood, community, and belonging are imagined and negotiated. However, despite its centrality to narratives for young audiences, friendship has received comparatively limited sustained attention as a distinct object of study within children's literature and media scholarship.

This edited collection seeks to address this gap by bringing together interdisciplinary perspectives on friendship in children’s and young adult texts. The volume will explore how friendships are represented, experienced, challenged, and transformed across time, place, genres, and media forms. The volume welcomes contributions that engage with friendship through a range of theoretical, methodological, and analytical approaches, including (but not limited to) childhood studies, affect studies, queer theory, disability studies, gender studies, race and ethnicity studies, adaptation studies, media studies, posthumanism, and ecocriticism.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• friendship and identity formation
• friendship and care
• friendship across difference
• friendship and community
• friendship in fantasy and speculative fiction
• animal, non-human, and posthuman friendships
• digital friendships
• friendship and activism
• friendship and education
• cross-cultural or transnational perspectives on friendship

Detailed proposals (approx. 400-500 words) and author biography must be submitted by 17 August 2026 to jade.dillon.craig@ntnu.no

Notification of acceptance will be emailed to authors by 17 September 2026

Full chapters of 6,000 – 8,000 words will be due by 17 February 2027

Contact jade.dillon.craig@ntnu.no for more information or if you have any questions.



Last updated June 12, 2026

CFP Fusion or Fracture in the Hundred Acre Woods: Community in Adaptations of Winnie-the-Pooh (Virtual) (9/30/2026; NeMLA 3/6-9/2027)

Fusion or Fracture in the Hundred Acre Woods: Community in Adaptations of Winnie-the-Pooh (Virtual)

Co-organizers Michael A. Torregrossa and Carl B. Sell

Sponsored by Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association

Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 30 September 2026

58th Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

Salve Regina University (Newport, RI)/Online.

Hybrid event: 6-9 March 2027


This session’s modality is Virtual Only, meaning all presentations will be delivered via Zoom regardless of whether the presenters are in-person.

Rationale

Communities are at the heart of many literary texts, including the Winnie-the-Pooh series by writer A. A. Milne and artist Ernest H. Shepard.

For over one hundred years, readers have experienced the adventures of Pooh and his companions within the Hundred Acre Woods through Milne and Shepard’s books and their various adaptations.

In this session, we’d like to focus on the ways the stories of Pooh and his friends have been adapted. Scholarship on these works remains limited despite their increasing growth over time, especially since Milne and Shepard’s works have entered the public domain.

We believe these new texts offer valuable insight into how readers have received the original tales through their representation (for good or ill) of the relationship between characters, maintaining the fellowship or breaking it through extraordinary means.


News of Winnie-the-Pooh (and adaptations) will be shared by the organizers on our blog, Silly Old Bear? Adaptations, Appropriations, and Transformations of Winnie-The-Pooh: https://silly-old-bear.blogspot.com/. We also encourage you to make use of the resource guide provided at https://tinyurl.com/SillyOldBearRG in formulating your approach.

Submission Instructions

All proposals must be submitted into the CFPList system at https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/22573 by 30 September 2026. You will be prompted to create an account with NeMLA (if you do not already have one) and, then, to complete sections on Title, Abstract, Brief Bio, Media Needs, and Modality. This session’s modality is Virtual Only, meaning all presentations will be delivered via Zoom regardless of whether the presenters are in-person.


Notification on the status of your submission will be made by 16 October 2026. If accepted, NeMLA asks you to confirm your participation with the session chairs by accepting their invitation and by registering for the event. The deadline for Registration/Membership is 9 December 2026. For the 2027 Convention, registration will be the same for in-person and remote attendance. (See NeMLA’s Membership and Registration page, at https://www.nemla.org/about/members.html, for full details.)


Be advised of the following policies for the Convention: All participants must be members of NeMLA for the year of the conference. Participants may present on up to two sessions of any type. Registrants at NeMLA may not present the same abstract/paper on two different sessions. (See NeMLA’s Presenter Policies page, at https://www.nemla.org/convention/policies.html, for further details. Information on Session Types can be found at https://www.nemla.org/convention/sessions.html.)


NeMLA offers limited funding for travel to graduate students and to contingent faculty, adjunct instructors, independent scholars, and two-year college faculty. Details can be found at NeMLA’s Travel Awards page at https://www.nemla.org/awards/travel.html.


Thank you for your interest in our session. Please address questions and/or concerns to the organizers at popular.preternaturaliana@gmail.com.


For more information on the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association, please visit our blog, Popular Preternaturaliana: Studying the Monstrous in Popular Culture, at https://popularpreternaturaliana.blogspot.com/.

Recent Comics - Hundred Acre Wood Comic Collection

Fantagraphics Books has been publishing assorted collections of Disney comics and recently began a series devoted to Winnie the Pooh. The imprint is called Winnie the Pooh Comic Book Classics. 

The first volume (details below) came out last December.  Full details, a preview, and ordering information at https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/winnie-the-pooh-the-hundred-acre-wood-comic-collection-volume-1. 

Amazon has a preview as well, which includes more pages, including the full contents list, at https://www.amazon.com/Winnie-Pooh-Hundred-Collection-Classics/dp/B0F1DYH5MY/. 

Winnie the Pooh: The Hundred Acre Wood Comic Collection: Volume 1

Kari Korhonen, Jim Fanning, Ed Nofziger

On sale date: December 2, 2025

Pages: 172

Format: Hardback

Color: Full color.

Dimensions: 7.8" × 10.6"

ISBN-13: 9798875001482

Disney talents around the world have been making Winnie the Pooh comic book stories since 1977. Now these warm, wacky, and wild adventures are anthologized for the first time in North America!

Is your honey pot empty? Oh, bother! Fill it up with dozens of classic comic book stories never before collected—from the vintage American Winnie the Pooh comic book and from Disney comics magazines around the world! Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore and the gang rejoin us in a bounty of epic-length cartoon adaptations and delightfully droll gag tales.

See Christopher Robin’s whole gang chase bees with balloons, bounce into dire winter weather, hunt hungry Heffalumps and even confront the dreadful Snagglefrizzle! Tall tales, chivalry, stuff and fluff are all here for Pooh Bear—Winnie the Pooh Bear!