Aims & Scopes
Aims and Scope
Creative Saplings: A Peer-Reviewed Journal of English Language, Literature, and Culture is an international, open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed journal published by the Society for Academic Facilitation and Extension (SAFE), India. The journal is dedicated to advancing scholarly inquiry in English literary studies, language education, and interdisciplinary cultural discourse.
The journal welcomes original, previously unpublished research articles, review articles, and critical essays in the following areas:
- British, American, postcolonial, and world literatures in English
- Indian writing in English — poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fiction
- Comparative literature and translation studies
- Ecocriticism, feminism, postcolonialism, and other contemporary critical theories
- Folklore, oral tradition, and cultural studies
- English language teaching, applied linguistics, and language pedagogy
- Life writing, autobiography, and memoir studies
- Interdisciplinary approaches connecting literature with history, philosophy, and sociology
Target Audience: The journal is addressed to researchers, academics, postgraduate students, and practitioners in the humanities, particularly those engaged with English literary and cultural studies across national and institutional contexts.
Distinctive Focus: Creative Saplings is particularly committed to publishing research that engages with Indian and South Asian literary and cultural traditions alongside the global English literary canon, contributing to the decolonisation of literary scholarship while maintaining rigorous international standards of peer review and academic publishing.
The journal publishes monthly and welcomes submissions from scholars worldwide. All submissions undergo a double-blind peer review process. The journal operates in accordance with the ethical standards of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
