For Beginning Writers and/or Researchers

Simbolismo: Signs, Identities, Meanings wants to create and maintain a safe and dynamic space within which beginning writers or researchers can interact, engage, and learn from experts from our editorial and advisory teams through bite-size writing and ideation workshops. We believe that beginning writers or researchers have excellent ideas and insights, research findings, and relevant material culture emanating from their own practices and culture, and grounded in their lived experiences, but at times, translating them into scholarly work can be tedious and challenging, let alone writing them down on paper. Ideation workshops are designed to stimulate the writer’s curiosity and reflect on their lived experience to get inspiration and aspiration for research and writing.

We would like to help you, beginning writers or researchers, by conducting and facilitating regular writing and ideation workshops on the following topics: (1) Thinking and Writing Qualitatively, (2) Taking a Stance in Qualitative Writing, (3) Ideation on Topics of Interest to Generate Research Questions, and (4) Publishing in a Qualitative Journal, to name a few. We will advertise these workshops on a regular basis; therefore, we invite you to register for the journal through this link or visit the link on the journal home page. These workshops aim to equip you with the necessary skills, attitude, autonomy, and courage to attempt to submit to our journal and endeavour to succeed. However, please take note that attending these workshops does not guarantee publication in the journal. Guided by the principles of equality, equity, and fairness, all submissions will undergo a peer review process before acceptance and publication.

On a macro level, the editorial team of Simbolismo: Signs, Identities, Meanings will endeavour to conduct small-scale research conferences or forums where you, as beginning writers and readers, will have the opportunity to listen to and learn from experts, and share your ideas or research findings through roundtable discussions or paper presentations. We highly encourage you to sign up to this journal for updates.