LIRIC Journal
The Lapidus International Research and Innovation Community (LIRIC) Journal is an international, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal.
It aims to provide a forum for contemporary critical debate on the relationship between the written and spoken word and health and wellbeing. This includes writing as a social practice.
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What is the LIRIC Journal?
Established in 2020, the Lapidus International Research and Innovation Community (LIRIC) Journal provides an international, peer-reviewed and cross-disciplinary exploration of the field of writing for wellbeing/creative writing for therapeutic purposes (CWTP). As a scholarly publication, LIRIC has a wide readership across a variety of sectors—education, health, the arts—in community and voluntary as well as private settings.
Our aim is to bridge the gap between theory/research and practice. This may be therapeutic, artistic, or both. By celebrating innovative, creative, and practice-based approaches to research, LIRIC provides a space to promote and critically debate the relationship between the written/spoken word and health and wellbeing, as understood through diverse theoretical perspectives. LIRIC Journal is keen to enlist a broader constituency of practitioners, academics, and researchers across disciplines who are currently active and interested in this emerging area of study
LIRIC Open for Submissions
LIRIC welcomes rigorous, thoughtful and innovative contributions that advance understanding of writing for wellbeing. We welcome submissions from researchers, practitioners, clinicians, educators, writers and professionals working across psychology, psychotherapy, counselling, medicine, nursing, allied health professions, education, the creative arts and the wider wellbeing sector.
Whether grounded in research, professional practice, creative inquiry or lived experience, we’re looking for work that deepens understanding, challenges assumptions and brings research and practice into meaningful dialogue. We believe each enriches the other.
We welcome contributions that explore questions such as:
- How can research strengthen and inform writing for wellbeing practice?
- What can practitioners teach us about the current realities of facilitating writing for therapeutic purposes?
- How can reflective practice generate new knowledge and research questions?
- What happens when researchers, practitioners and people with lived experience collaborate?
- How can creative methodologies help us better understand wellbeing, health and human experience?
Topics might include:
- Exploring the role of writing for therapeutic purposes in supporting recovery from complex PTSD within communities
- Evaluating writing for wellbeing programmes in healthcare, education, community, criminal justice or social care settings
- Investigating how creative writing groups foster resilience, connection and wellbeing
- Examining the integration of writing into psychotherapy, counselling, coaching or healthcare practice
- Exploring writing as a resource for recovery, identity, grief, trauma or major life transitions
- Evaluating approaches to teaching writing for wellbeing or training facilitators
- Practitioner research and reflective inquiry that generates new knowledge from professional practice
- Collaborative projects bringing together researchers, practitioners and people with lived experience
- Arts-based, participatory and interdisciplinary research methodologies
- New theoretical or conceptual perspectives that advance the field
- International perspectives that broaden understanding of writing for wellbeing across cultures and communities
We also welcome book reviews, reflective essays, case studies, methodological discussions and other scholarly contributions that stimulate critical debate and deepen understanding of the relationship between writing, health and wellbeing.
These examples are intended to inspire rather than define the scope of the journal. If you’re unsure whether your work is a good fit, we’d be delighted to hear from you.