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The Font – A Literary Journal for Language Teachers is a journal about teaching and learning languages at home and abroad. It looks at the topic from a more creative, literary, and humanistic perspective than the more traditional academic publications.

The Font is run by an independent, voluntary group of writers and readers, based in several countries, who also teach languages. It is not affiliated with any institution or organisation, and is unfunded and not for profit.

The Font does not encourage or promote the use of any particular language teaching methodology or pedagogy. Rather, it is a place for teachers and learners to reflect on their experiences and observations while teaching and learning languages, or while living and teaching abroad. It publishes creative writing by language teachers, learners, and translators from many different countries, and was designed as a venue for language teachers and learners from all walks of life, to come together and share. It also promotes the idea of creative writing as a form of Arts Based Research, and seeks to create a collection of works on which arts based researchers can draw.

The journal is published online twice yearly in April (Vol. 1) and October (Vol. 2).

The Font is registered with the International Standard Serials Number International Centre (ISSN: 2203-4412) and the National Library of Australia Catalogue. Some early issues may be found in the National Library's Archive.

Genres

The Font publishes short stories, articles, essays, anecdotes, poems, interviews, cartoons and other forms of creative writing which provide insight, reflection, humour, and inspiration on the theme of teaching and learning languages at home and abroad.It's motto is "The Font: Entertaining, Inspiring, Thought-Provoking."

Submissions

Submissions are reviewed by an Editorial Committee. After review, submissions with the most literary merit, related to the theme of The Font, are selected for publication. The submission guidelines are here.

History

The first issue of The Font was published in October 2013, and two issues every year since then have been published. At the time of writing (Nov. 2020) 15 issues had been published featuring the work of over 200 language teachers from more than 30 countries.

Organizations which list The Font

The Font is listed on the websites of The Italian Association of Applied Linguistics (L’Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata AItLA), Duotrope, Austlit - The University of Queensland's authoritative database about Australian literature and storytelling, the National Library of Australia Catalogue.

Articles about The Font

Crocker, James, The Font, in The Language Teacher, The Japan Association of Language Teachers, August, 2015.