Call for Papers: Utopia on the Tabletop

A photograph featuring a tabletop role-play character sheet and three 20-sided dice

Proposals are invited for chapters on tabletop roleplaying games andthe utopian. The theme may be interpreted flexibly: topics and perspectives may include, for example, hopepunk, solarpunk, and other -punks, transformative justice and anti-carceral feminism, queer publics and queer world-making, colonialism and decoloniality, Afrofuturism and Indigenous Futurisms, climate change and ecological crisis, critical humanism and posthumanism, dystopia and heterotopia, imaginary voyages and philosophical novels, etc. Especially welcome are submissions that will shine a light on work by BIPOC game designers, writers, and creators.

Send abstracts to Joseph Walton (j.c.walton@sussex.ac.uk) by 1 February 2021 with ‘Submission’ in the subject line. Informal queries in advance are also welcome, as are ideas innovative formats and approaches.Please also include a 50-300 word bio (or alternatively a CV or a link to your website). Chapters of 2,000-8,000 words will be due 1 September 2021.