The editors of Bale: An Annotated Bibliography of Narrative and Storywork are pleased to announce its availability. Bale is a dynamic and collaborative project designed to bring together voices and texts across storytelling scholarship in and beyond the field of rhetoric, composition, and writing studies. The editors of Bale—April Conway, Emily Pifer, Katie Powell, and Nancy Small—are a collective of scholars interested and invested in storytelling and narrative methods and methodologies. They were brought together by the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition’s 2021 Fellowship Pod Program. Bale is presented in partnership with the WAC Clearinghouse.
The goal of Bale is to map the layered, relational, and interconnected ways we receive, take up, and circulate texts. To accomplish this, the editors invite you to author bibliographic entries based on the sources most important to you, your work, and your community. The Bale editorial team welcomes a broad diversity of participation and is committed to collaborative, anti-racist practices. The project aims to support scholars both in and outside of the academy and at all different stages and institutions, contributing in ways that align with their interests, material conditions, capacity for labor, and publication goals. You more about possibilities for participation and contribution on the Bale website. The Bale team also welcome your questions, curiosities, and concerns at bale.biblio@gmail.com.