Woolf Studies Annual was founded in 1995 by Mark Hussey, who also founded Pace University Press, the publisher of volumes 1 (1995) through 31 (2025). In 2026, the journal transitioned to the University of Florida Press, its new publisher.

The Annual welcomes inquiries and submissions that may take a number of different forms:

• traditional scholarly articles on Woolf’s life, work, and/or milieux (approx. 8000–9000 words)
• transcriptions of previously unpublished archival material
• book reviews and review essays
• curated forums of short pieces focused on a specific topic or text
• short form close readings that promote and develop the craft of criticism
• resources such as indexes, bibliographies, inventories, textual notes, etc.

The journal Editors are open to discussing other innovative forms that scholarship may take and welcome all approaches to Woolf studies. The journal does not privilege one approach and intends to represent the breadth and eclecticism of research methods and critical approaches in literary and cultural studies. However, as a single-author peer-reviewed journal, the Annual does expect authors to be familiar with the journal’s content and to consider that its primary audience is the global community of Woolf scholars.