Submissions
Information for authors, proposal guidelines and submission forms
Additional information
We are open to proposals from any discipline or subject area. Due to the rising cost of production, we will only consider work in non-standard formats if it is fully costed.
We continue to welcome work that combines theory, practice and performance.
Publications may include, but are not limited to:
- Short and full-length monographs, single or co-authored, stand-alone or as part of a series
- Creative and life writing, poetry, prose, fiction, non-fiction, journalism
- Audio, visual and/or performance work
- Thought-in-action, provisional or process-capturing work such as briefs, scripts, blogs, storyboards, notebooks, opinion pieces, essays, clips, previews and samples
- Non-standard modes of communication (diary, memoir, manifesto etc)
New Project Proposals
Proposals for monographs, edited collections or book series should be emailed to goldsmithspress@gold.ac.uk and must include a completed proposal form.
Proposal forms appropriate to each publication type can be found at the bottom of this page.
All authors and contributors are encouraged to consider the appropriateness of their project to Goldsmiths Press and reflect on this in their proposal form, as this will form part of the editorial review process.
Goldsmiths Press does not publish PhD theses. We encourage early-career researchers to submit project proposals alongside, or with the express support of, an established and already published academic.
While we are happy to discuss potential proposals before they are submitted, we will only consider proposals for monographs or books series that are accompanied by a completed proposal form.
We regret that we are unable to provide extensive feedback on unsuccessful proposals.
Please see the respective forms at the bottom of this page for further information on how to submit a proposal.
GOLD SF
Gold SF is dedicated to discovering and publishing new intersectional feminist science fiction, promoting voices that answer to the unprecedented times in which we find ourselves, and orientated towards to social, economic, and environmental justice.
Gold SF, an imprint of Goldsmiths Press, is supported by an Editorial Board comprised of established academics, authors, and experts, chaired by Una McCormack. The other members of our Editorial Board are: Paul March-Russell (co-founder); Abi Curtis; Joan Haran; Elizabeth English; Aishwarya Subramanian; and Sheree Renée Thomas. Former members include: Anne Charnock; Maureen Kincaid Speller, and Robin Reid.
Current publications include: Empathy, Mathematics for Ladies, The Disinformation War, The Ghostwriters and The Other Shore.
We believe that science fiction, and speculative fictions, offer a mode of critical and utopian thinking that is ideally placed to address contemporary issues. We are therefore looking to commission work which answers to the times, dealing with subjects such as
- Anti-rationalism and the rise of the alt-right
- The climate crisis and feminism in the Age of the Anthropocene
- Global movements of populations and refugees
- New visions of race, class, and queerness
- Expanding frontiers in gender and sexuality
- Decoloniality and indigenous knowledge traditions
- Pathways to resistance and rebellion
Specifics of submissions
We are particularly keen to hear from new voices that have not been traditionally represented by science fiction, literary fiction, and liberal feminism. In addition, we are looking for the following:
- Experimental and innovative novels playing with narrative, linearity, and the politics of form as much as the politics of content
- Word count: 55-75,000
- Initial sample (between 10-15,000 words)
- followed by request for complete manuscript
Project proposals can be sent to goldsmithspress@gold.ac.uk
Book Series
Future Media:
Series editors: Shaka McGlotten and Helen V Pritchard
The Goldsmiths Press Future Media series calls for alternatives to utilitarian and narrowly instrumentalist 'techno solutionism' on media, infrastructural and technoscience futures.
It encourages authors to propose a relatively short, sharp intervention into these futures informed by Black feminist temporalities, anti-racist, anti-ableist, environmental, queer, trans, feminist, collective, and/or speculative approaches.
The Future Media series also makes space for less instrumental forms of imagining and writing about media including prototypes, workbooks, parafiction, poethics, as well as familiar speculative formats such as the manual and manifesto.
Rather than offering quick technological solutions to social problems, the Future Media series is oriented towards practices that embrace complexity and refuses easy, obvious, off-the-peg answers to questions about the forms media might take and how we might live mediated lives.
Authors are encouraged to reflect on how they are writing as well as what they are writing about and are free to explore modes of communication that are engaging and apposite to our goal of contesting the future.
Current publications include: Future Gaming: Creative Interventions in Video Game Culture and Glitterworlds: The Future Politics of a Ubiquitous Thing
We welcome complete proposals, as well as those that are in the early development stages.
All proposals should be submitted by email along with a completed Future Media series proposal form.
Methods Lab
Series editors: Rebecca Coleman and Kat Jungnickel.
The Methods Lab series is committed to leading-edge critical and creative research practices in and beyond academia.
It aims to be a publishing platform that supports a wide range of approaches to studying and intervening in the social world.
Through repurposing and borrowing from inside and outside the academy, it stretches the walls of disciplinary scholarship.
We welcome complete proposals as well as those that are in the early stages of development.
All proposals should be submitted by email along with a completed Methods Lab series proposal form.
PERC
Series editor: Will Davies
Goldsmiths’ Political Economy Research Centre (PERC) seeks to refresh political economy, in the original sense of the term, as a pluralist and critical approach to the study of capitalism.
In doing so it challenges the sense of economics as a discipline, separate from the other social sciences, aiming instead to combine economic knowledge with various other disciplinary approaches.
In keeping with long-standing traditions of Goldsmiths, the PERC series is committed to the cultural examination of contemporary capitalism, and to that end welcomes submissions that draw on cultural studies, economic anthropology, science and technology studies, history of economics, media studies and cultural economy.
The series hopes to include critical investigations into (inter alia) neoliberalism, financialisation, management, inequality and elites, the platform economy, expertise, and the everyday realities of indebtedness.
Yet it also aims to create space for alternative economic futures to be identified, mapped and elucidated, seeking possibilities and hope in the crises of the present.
Current publications include: The Death of Public Knowledge?, Economic Science Fictions, Can Markets Solve Problems? An Empirical Enquiry into Neoliberalism in Action, Futilitarianism, The Marketizers and Finance Aesthetics.
Project proposals can be discussed with Professor Will Davies – w.davies (@gold.ac.uk). Please call your email 'PERC project proposal'.
Planetarities
Series editors: Jennifer Gabrys, Ros Gray and Shela Sheikh
Practice as Research
The Goldsmiths Press Practice as Research series celebrates and explores the multiplicity of practice research and the ways in which it is published.
The series is committed to pushing the boundaries of doing and disseminating research.
Current publications include: The Ghosting of Anne Armstrong , The Presence Project and Experimental Translation.
Project proposals can be sent to goldsmithspress (@gold.ac.uk).
Please call your email 'Practice as Research project proposal'.
Sonics
Series editor: Atau Tanaka
The Sonics series considers sound as media and as material – as physical phenomenon, social vector, or source of musical affect. The series maps the diversity of thinking across the sonic landscape, from sound studies to musical performance, from sound art to the sociology of music, from historical soundscapes to digital musicology.
We seek to publish leading figures as well as emerging voices, by commission or by proposal.
Current publications include: Meta Gesture Music, Sonic Agency: Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance, Inflamed Invisible: Collected Writings on Art and Sound, Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski, Dissonant Waves, The England No One Cares About, Take This Hammer, Ruins and Resilience and Building a Voice.
Project proposals can be discussed with Professor Atau Tanaka – a.tanaka (@gold.ac.uk). Please call your email 'Sonics project proposal'.
Spatial Politics
Series editors: Roger Burrows, Josephine Berry and Dubravka Sekulić
The Spacial Politics series is an inventive interdisciplinary series of books examining spatial politics at various geographical and critical scales – from the domestic to the neighbourhood to the global, from the building contract to the Free Economic Zone – mixing together the insights of the social sciences, art, architecture, cultural studies, history and, on occasion, speculative fiction.
Current publications include: Brutalism as Found, Passport to Peckham and World’s End .
Project proposals can be sent to goldsmithspress (@gold.ac.uk). Please title your email 'Spatial Politics proposal'.
Fictional Objects
Series editors: Jenn Ashworth and Charlie Gere
Fictional Objects publishes ambitious and novel literary fiction and autofiction.
We are looking for work that will surprise and challenge readers, test the limits of the genres, ask critical questions and be unafraid to take striking and original approaches to voice and narration. A Fictional Object makes use of but is not hampered by genre - including crime, suspense, horror, history, works of space and place, fictional autobiography and speculative autofictions. (Writers who work in speculative futures and science fictions should submit to our sister imprint, Gold SF.)
Whatever your subject matter, we're looking for Fictional Objects as interested in the 'how' of narrative architecture and linguistic play as they are in the 'what' of plot and character. Manuscripts should be between 55 - 75k words.
Please feel free to contact the editors, Charlie and Jenn, to discuss possible projects or send us a one-page synopsis and the first three chapters / ten thousand words of the work (PDF or Word format). We are happy to consider initial proposals all year round and our main reading period for full manuscripts is over the summer.
Current publications include: Six Concepts for the End of the World, I Hate the Lake District, Autodrive and A Physical Education.
Proposals can be sent to c.gere (@lancaster.ac.uk) and jenn.ashworth (@lancaster.ac.uk). Please call your email 'Fictional Objects project proposal'.