New fiction in The Sociological Review
+ a giveaway of Fiction & Research by Becky Tipper and Leah Gilman
Hello! Two new great sociological short stories are out now in The Sociological Review magazine. The first is The Map of Hidden Feelings by Işıl Bayraktar, a beautiful piece about migration and the joy and torture of unrequited love, especially queer feelings.
The second is What’s in a Name by Beth Leavenworth DuFault, a rich story about the impact and intensity of working in a neonatal intensive care unit.
These are really different but equally generative takes on sociological storytelling. 2025 marks my eighth year as Fiction Editor of The Sociological Review and I learn so much from working with authors through to publication. The Foundation’s magazine has been reimagined as a quarterly and the fiction series lives within this, so fiction will be now published four times per year. Submissions are rolling so if you have writing, please send it in anytime.
I am so pleased that my copy of Fiction and Research: A Guide to Connecting Stories and Inquiry by Becky Tipper and Leah Gilman has finally arrived. This came out last year with Policy Press (an imprint of Bristol University Press) within the Creative Research Methods in Practice series.
Becky and Leah (and their great publisher) have generously sent me a second copy to give away here. If you don’t yet have a copy of this great book and would like one, especially if it’s not something you could afford to buy yourself, send me an email at ashleigh.watson@unsw.edu.au and I will send it to you. First in best dressed :~) (please note if you just reply to this newsletter it goes to a different email address which I don’t check as regularly, so please use my work one above)
They have also sent me a discount code: you should be able order the book with 25% discount with code ASP25 at the checkout at: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/fiction-and-research
For orders from Australia and New Zealand, please contact renee.l.collins@newsouthbooks.com.au directly.