Call for Submissions

A peer-reviewed journal that strives to cultivate ongoing, multi-directional conversations beyond traditional publication boundaries, RUBIX serves as a space for sharing various creative research and emerging scholarly dialogues, encompassing both text and practice-based approaches, while facilitating the exchange of knowledge among different communities of practice. 

Featuring ongoing, open issues on timely topics alongside thematic issues, we aim to elevate the visibility of practice-based research and creative researchers by providing a platform for those not widely represented within traditional scholarly publications. We accept a diverse range of creative research: from academic papers, poetry, experiments with text and image, and sound works, to photography, performances, photo essays, visual art, and video. All submissions, regardless of form, are taken through a peer-review process. 

RUBIX telescopes on creativity as a critical framework with a particular interest in practice-based research and artistic activity as a form of knowledge creation. We invite submissions on creative research and practice for its first open call. Accepted submissions will be featured online on an ongoing basis with the deadline for this issue being September 15th, 2024. Please see the submission guidelines for more details on formatting and file requirements.

What ways of knowing, living, and transforming emerge through creative practices in Black contexts, particularly those influenced by Black ways of being and scholarships across the arts, creative industries, health sciences, communication, education, and related fields?  How do these practices invoke creative (co-)resilience, sustain collective life, and open up opportunities for Black flourishing?

“Creative Co-Resilience and Black Flourishing” is a special issue of  RUBIX Journal that welcomes broad-range of submissions which examine how artistic and imaginative work across Black contexts in the health sciences, literary studies, education, communication, creative industries, and associated disciplines cultivate innovative practices of care, knowledge-making, and collective transformation.

Importantly, we invite contributions that engage Black scholarship through health, creative writings, music, personal narratives, dance, and other creative practices, and highlight how these practices foster shared strength, promote relational infrastructure, and imagine and enact pathways toward Black flourishing. Artistic interventions (e.g. poems, creative non-fiction, photo essays, textiles, visual art works, music, and so on), alongside academic articles, are very welcome.

This special issue stems from “Black Scholars in Dialogue” organised by the Black Scholarship Institute and the Creative School at TMU on the theme of “Creative Co-resilience and Black Flourishing”, but our call for papers to the special issue of RUBIX Journal is open to all as we encourage submissions from all disciplines and regions. We invite papers that explore the dynamics, capacities, and potentialities of co-resilience across fields through critical and interdisciplinary engagements.

RUBIX is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to fostering dynamic, multidirectional dialogue that extends beyond conventional boundaries of academic publishing. It provides a platform for diverse forms of creative and emerging scholarship, including academic articles, poetry, experimental writing combining text and image, sound-based works, photography, photo essays, visual art, and video. All submissions, irrespective of medium or format, undergo a rigorous peer-review process. We particularly encourage creative and critical explorations in arts, creative industries, health sciences, education, communication and related areas, including both theoretical and practice-led work. Emerging scholars and graduate students are especially invited to contribute to this special issue.

General Submission Guidelines

·       Title 

·       Abstract (250-300 words), Keywords (5-10) 

·       Papers should be between 4,000-6,000 words excluding citations; alternative format submissions are welcome

·       MLA style guidelines 

For inquiries, contact Dr. Adesoji Babalola (adesoji.babalola@torontomu.ca) and Dr. Miranda Campbell (miranda.campbell@torontomu.ca).

Timeline

Abstracts due: June 30, 2026

Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2026

Full paper due: September 30, 2026

Editorial review and feedback from Special Issue Journal Editors: Fall 2026

Revised Article due by November 1, 2026 

External Peer Review: Winter 2027

Anticipated publication date: Spring 2027 

Guest Editors

Dr. Adesoji Babalola, Toronto Metropolitan University

Dr. Miranda Campbell, Toronto Metropolitan University

Invocation by Dr. Katherine McKittrick, Queen’s University

Summation by Ashley Jane Lewis, Toronto Metropolitan University

Please Note: Submissions are now closed for this Special Issue of RUBIX.

Guest Editors

Dr. Katie Tremblay, Cape Breton University and  

Dr. Miranda Campbell, Toronto Metropolitan University

Call for Submissions

The Arts Researchers and Teachers Society (ARTS) is a special interest group (SIG) within the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies (CACS), which is a constituent association of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE). The ARTS SIG offers a biannual pre-conference that aims to foster connections and build community for sharing interests and expertise through arts-based and creative formats. Guided by this year’s 2025 conference theme of “Creative Practice in Research and Teaching”, we invite submissions for this special interest issue of Rubix focusing on Arts Education.  

RUBIX is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that strives to cultivate ongoing, multi-directional conversations beyond traditional publication boundaries, a space for sharing various creative research and emerging scholarship. We accept a diverse range of creative research: from academic papers, poetry, experiments with text and image, and sound works, to photography, photo essays, visual art, and video. All submissions, regardless of form, are taken through a peer-review process.  We welcome creative explorations in arts and educational research, including theoretical and practice-based submissions. We encourage emerging scholars, as well as graduate students, to submit their research to this special edition of the journal.  

General Submission Guidelines

• Title 
• Abstract (250-300 words), Keywords (5-10) 
• Papers should be between 4,000-6,000 words excluding citations  
• MLA style guidelines 

Please see the journal full submission guidelines for more details on formatting, file requirements, and images: Submission Guidelines

Estimated Timeline

Submission Deadline: Full paper due by 30 September 2025

Revised Article due by December 1, 2025

Anticipated publication date Spring 2026

Should you have any further questions, please email katie_tremblay@cbu.ca or miranda.campbell@torontomu.ca