Call for Late-breaking Submissions

The Balisage 2025 preliminary peer-reviewed program is now set: 2025 Program. But there is still time to get on the program this year! Balisage always leaves room in the schedule for late-breaking presentations.

June 6, 2025. Proposals for late-breaking presentation slots must be received at info@balisage.net by June 6, 2025.

What makes something late-breaking?

Ideally, a presentation/paper about it could not have existed before. It might be a:

  • brand new project
  • breakthrough in a markup-related project or standard
  • sudden insight into a markup problem
  • project you can finally talk about, that’s ready to go public

But late-breaking can also mean “oh darn, I missed the paper deadline and I have a dynamite topic” or “was too busy in April, but I can write a paper now”. Or you just realized that you would like community feedback or help with what you are doing or about to start. Share a case study about how you “done good at your place”.

How to Submit a Late-breaking

What do we need? While we’d appreciate a full paper, you may also submit an extended paper proposal, a detailed outline with examples, or a very long abstract. (references included please). We just need enough for Balisage Committee review and selection. Your proposal message must supply the following information:

  • The name(s) and affiliations of all author(s)/speaker(s)
  • The email address of the presenter
  • The title of the presentation
  • An abstract of 100-150 words
  • Enough of a paper proposal that the conference committee can understand the work and evaluate the contribution of this paper to the conference as a whole. (Examples: a full paper, a partial draft paper, a detailed outline with examples, an extended abstract. Include references please. You may include code or graphics.)
  • If any part of this material has already been presented or (particularly) published, please tell us when and where
  • An indication as to whether the presenter is comfortable giving a conference presentation and answering questions in English about the material to be presented
  • Your assurance that all authors are willing and able to sign the Balisage Non-exclusive Publication Agreement (http://www.balisage.net/BalisagePublicationAgreement.pdf) with respect to the proposed presentation
  • Your assurance that the authors will provide the following materials for publication in the conference proceedings:
    • a paper (or a short paper summarizing the main points of the presentation, or an abstract that identifies the mail points of the presentation), and
    • your slides or conference visuals

Important Dates

  • 06 June 2025 — Late-breaking submissions due
  • 16 June 2025 — Late-breaking speakers notified
  • 11 July 2025 — Short paper/slide summary due from late-breaking presenters

The conference committee reserves the right to make editorial changes in your abstract and/or title for the conference program and publicity.

Encore Presentations

We are also calling for offers to repeat previously given papers as fill-ins when the regularly scheduled presentations fall through. For details see: Call for Encore Presentations

Questions/Problems

If you have any questions on any of the above, or any problem creating your submission , please send email to info@balisage.net.