Call for Contributions: The Oar

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The Oar, Volume 2 (Summer 2027)

Following the successful launch of its inaugural issue in 2026, The Oar returns for a second volume celebrating the diverse histories, cultures, and stories that have shaped New Brunswick and the broader Atlantic region.

Published annually with support from the York-Sunbury Historical Society and Fredericton Region Museum, The Oar is New Brunswick’s popular history magazine. It provides a forum for sharing engaging, accessible, and thought-provoking explorations of the past for a broad public audience. The Oar aims to bridge academic and public history by making historical research accessible to broad audiences while maintaining high standards of scholarship, interpretation, and storytelling. The magazine welcomes contributions that illuminate the histories of New Brunswick and neighbouring regions, including Indigenous territories and nations whose histories extend beyond contemporary provincial borders.

In the spirit of fostering curiosity, dialogue, and historical understanding, The Oar invites submissions from historians, researchers, students, writers, artists, community historians, knowledge keepers, and others interested in sharing stories of the past with a wide readership.

Guidelines for Proposed Contributions

The Editorial Committee welcomes proposals for contributions that explore any aspect of New Brunswick’s past, broadly defined. We encourage submissions that examine local, regional, Indigenous, environmental, cultural, political, social, and material histories, as well as histories that connect New Brunswick to wider Atlantic and global contexts.

We are interested in a variety of formats, including:

• Short articles and essays
• Local and community histories
• Biographical sketches
• Exhibit, museum, and book reviews
• Object studies and artifact analyses
• Oral history projects
• Creative non-fiction and literary reflections rooted in historical themes
• Photographic essays and visual storytelling

Contributions will typically range between 500 and 1,500 words, although longer submissions may be considered at the discretion of the Editorial Committee. Contributors are encouraged to include one to three images or other visual materials, subject to copyright permissions and reproduction quality.

Submission Process

Prospective contributors should submit:

• An abstract of no more than 300 words
• A brief biographical note (50–100 words)

The deadline for abstracts is 30 September 2026.

Authors whose proposals are accepted will be invited to submit completed drafts by 31 January 2027. Print copies are published and available after August 1st. Online versions for new issues will be available after January 1st.

Contact

Questions and proposals may be submitted to:

TheOarNB@gmail.com

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Feature Image: “New Brunswick / Nova Scotia,” Alexander Cavalié Mercer and family fonds, Library and Archives Canada, item no. 2834042, ca. 1840.

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Richard Yeomans

Richard Yeomans, PhD, is a historian of Atlantic Canada who specializes in the history of science and settler colonialism in New Brunswick. He is the editor of The Oar, the official periodical of the Fredericton Region Museum, and the former Project Manager of the UNB Atlantic Canada Studies Centre. Richard is currently working at Library and Archives Canada as part of the Access and Services Branch.

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