Islands to Crash Land On: Publishing Venues

Thanks to a lot of help and recommendations from other classmates, Dr. Burton, and hours of internet scrounging, I've found a few outlets for my paper that I think are a great fit:

Academic Conference: The Wooden O Symposium at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. The Wooden O "is a cross-disciplinary conference exploring Medieval through Early Modern Studies, through the text and performance of Shakespeare’s plays" held annually as part of the Utah Shakespearean Festival. Selected papers are presented on SUU's campus and from those selected, a few are published in the Journal of the Wooden O. They accept submissions from literally anyone, and, while they don't update their site very well, I was able to find that in 2006 they published an undergraduate paper. This combined with the fact that they're specifically looking for papers on The Tempest this year gives me a lot of hope.

Logo for the online academic journal Game Studies

Academic Journal: Game Studies is an online-only peer-reviewed journal "to provide an academic channel for the ongoing discussions on games and gaming." They publish multiple times a year online and are open to submissions from anyone, though they are very strict about what they publish and have an extensive checklist to fill before you submit. However, articles such as "The Algorithmic Experience: Portal as Art"

Academic Blogging: Gameology is "a scholarly community dedicated to the study of video games," though it isn't a typical blog. However, they do keep a running bibliography of essays and blog posts on their site, and accept submissions openly, so it's a place I could potentially get published. Such articles as "Notes from Form, Culture, and Video Game Criticism" show that my paper would be a good fit here, though from looking around the site, it doesn't seem like there's been much activity on it in around a year, so maybe it's not the best fit.

Bonus: Big Leagues: Dr. Burton found out that last year, they had a panel at MLA totally dedicated to video games last year, and said MLA might not be a bad place to try out. The 2014 Calls for Papers didn't yield any promising results from the Shakespeare or the video game angles, but this might be an outlet later on when I get this idea fully developed.

All in all, I'm excited to get this project wrapped up and out there. I want to see what the world does with this.