The newly appointed editor of the John Buchan Journal, David Crackanthorpe, would welcome contributions whether critical, biographical, or of an otherwise diverting character, devoted to the life and works of the great man. email: crackanthorpe.david@wanadoo.fr
The John Buchan Journal is published by the John Buchan Society as a semi-scholarly organ, but is not the house magazine, so to speak (The Society Newsletter does that job). The Journal has been running for over 20 years, and has reached issue 32 (Spring 2005). Originally annual, it has been biannual since 1997, and is put together from her office in Brussels, Belgium, by Kate Macdonald, an English lecturer at the University of Ghent and the Open University and an erstwhile Buchan scholar (PhD 1991, University College London). Articles are always welcome. Enquiries and contributions (illustrated if you can) should be emailed to . Copy deadlines are the last days of August and February.
Contributors are a mix of Buchan enthusiasts (the Society has nearly 500 members worldwide), academics working in, among others, history, film, literature and philosophy, practitioners from other fields, and specialists in areas through which Buchan roamed freely. Recent examples of cross-over articles have dealt with ornithology, angling, mountaineering and economics. Areas in which articles would be welcome include horticulture, ethnography, music and topology. Or anything else that seems a good idea.
Articles are not peer-reviewed as such, but are edited with full academic rigour, particularly the references. Some may be sent for refereeing: the Editor's decision on publication is final.
The Journal in the MLA Bibliography
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The John Buchan Journal has been accepted for indexing by the MLA Bibliography, which has made its editor very happy. This can only increase its international standing, as well as publicising its growing field of John Buchan studies, and researchers who are published in the JBJ from now on will be indexed by name, subject and thematic content.
