ESBB Journal Publications

ISSN 2410-9096 (English Scholarship Beyond Borders, ESBB)

The 9th volume (2023) of English Scholarship Beyond Borders (ESBB) was published in September, 2023.  Submissions received after May 1, 2023 will be considered for publication in volume 10 in 2024.  Authors are asked to review the previously published ESBB issues available on this site to better understand the kinds of articles we publish and for information on our collaborative, non-blind review process. Click the link for more information on collaborative peer review. All papers are published on this site. Presenters at any of our events may submit a paper.

Instructions for Authors

  1. All papers are subject to initial screening. At this stage, we may decide not to review a paper. We always explain this decision to authors.
  2. Authors must confirm that their submission has not been previously published and is not under consideration at any other journal. ESBB reserves first world publication rights for the peer reviewed manuscripts that we publish.
  3. Before submitting to ESBB:
    1. Be sure to argue and provide evidence of relevance to an international audience.
    2. To show knowledge of earlier ESBB issues with relevant citations to ESBB papers. Papers that fail to show awareness of our former issues are unlikely to pass initial screening.
    3. To make it clear what was done by the author/researcher with an appropriate first-person voice. An impersonal voice, such as referring to yourself as ‘the author’ or ‘the researcher’ will not be accepted for full review.
    4. To avoid exaggerating the significance of findings.
    5. To support conclusions with strong arguments and/or evidence
    6. To avoid unnecessarily complex language
    7. To proofread thoroughly before submitting
    8. To make sure every citation has an entry in the list of references and vice versa.
  4. All publications are open access and are displayed on this site.
  5. ESBB practices (and researches into) collaborative, NON-Blind review. Authors who submit must be prepared to participate in a small review team supervised by an ESBB editor in which dialogic review will be practiced (probably using google docs depending on the supervising editor). 
  6. Final decisions about acceptance are made by the ESBB editors. They are fully discussed with author(s) and reviewers.
  7. Papers that require more time to process may be published in a later issue.
  8. ESBB issues are not conference proceedings and conference attendees do not have the automatic right to publish.
  9. Local organizers may publish their own volume of conference proceedings, but must not include any papers published in ESBB’s own journal publications.
  10. ESBB does not participate directly in the editing or reviewing of proceedings published by local organizers.
Please submit to rogercnunn (at) yahoo.co.uk. If you are submitting a paper presented at our 2022 conference at Ton Duc Thang University in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, please include “ESBB-ITC 2022 Submission” in the email subject line.

Creative Pages Call for Submissions

The ESBB Creative Pages seeks quality works of prose or poetry, including short fiction, flash fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, works in translation, and reviews of creative works. Keeping in the spirit of ESBB’s mandate, we encourage works in English from writers at any stage of their development and from any nation or culture. Manuscripts for Volume 10 can be submitted to the email address below. All inquiries are welcome and may be sent to chrisweagle@gmail.com. Please include ESBB in the subject field.

Instructions for Creative Pages Authors

  1. We only consider unpublished work. Please do not submit work that has been previously published or accepted for publication, including other online journals, websites, anthologies, chapbooks, or on social media. However, we will consider creative non-fiction submissions that have previously appeared on social media or blogs as incomplete, unlicensed drafts.
  2. We accept electronic submissions formatted in Times New Roman 12 pt.
  3. Please assemble everything in two files: 1.docx and 1.pdf file.
  4. Include a cover letter with contact information, the title(s) and genre of the work(s) you are submitting, and a 50-word biographical statement.
  5. We prefer to consider work that has not been submitted elsewhere. However, if multiple submissions exist, please inform us in the cover letter.
  6. We do not charge authors to submit nor do we charge readers to view or redistribute work, providing there is compliance with the CC BY 4.0 International license. We also do not pay for publishing works herein.

Poetry and Prose Guidelines

  1. A short fiction submission should be one story, double-spaced, and maximum 6,000 words. Send only one story at a time.
  2. Submit up to 3 flash fiction submissions, each less than 1000 double-spaced words. Keep the stories in the same word document or pdf file and separate each one by starting on a new page with the title included to mark the beginning of the new story.
  3. Poetry submissions are single-spaced. Submit no more than 5 poems per submission, and do not exceed 10 pages in total. Only one poem on a page. If a poem runs more than one page, please put the poem’s title in the headers of the additional page(s) and make sure the pages are numbered.
  4. Creative nonfiction (CNF) is an imprecisely defined genre, so we assess each submission on its own merits. Some examples of what we would like you to send are narrative non-fiction, personal essays, reflective writing, life writing, writing and healing, chronicles, and witness or survivor testimony. Please refer to Wikipedia’s entry for creative nonfiction for more information about this genre. CNF submissions should be double-spaced and maximum 6,000 words. Please submit only one work at a time.
  5. Translations of creative work are encouraged. Include a copy of the text in its original language and a copy of a permission letter from the copyright holder.
  6. Scenes from plays are accepted. They should be single-spaced and should not exceed 10 pages.
  7. For all submissions, accompanying images may be sent, but images that fall outside a Creative Commons BY 4.0 International license are the responsibility of the author and must be arranged beforehand.

Journal History

The first issue of English Scholarship Beyond Borders was launched on February 5th, 2015 (first day of the Bangkok conference) on this site by Dr. Aurapan Weerawong, Vice President for International Relations at Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok, and Dr Ahmet Acar, of Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir (the host of the first ESBB conference in 2014). All issues are available at the dedicated links at the top of this page.