Rehearsal / Open Season Summer
July 14th through September 15th 2025
We are committed to the idea that study is what you do with
other people. It’s talking and walking around with other people,
working, dancing, suffering, some irreducible convergence of all
three, held under the name of speculative practice. The notion
of a rehearsal—being in a kind of workshop, playing in a band,
in a jam session, or old men sitting on a porch, or people working
together in a factory—there are these various modes of activity.
The point of calling it “study” is to mark that the incessant and
irreversible intellectuality of these activities is already present.
Fred Moten & Stefano Harneyother people. It’s talking and walking around with other people,
working, dancing, suffering, some irreducible convergence of all
three, held under the name of speculative practice. The notion
of a rehearsal—being in a kind of workshop, playing in a band,
in a jam session, or old men sitting on a porch, or people working
together in a factory—there are these various modes of activity.
The point of calling it “study” is to mark that the incessant and
irreversible intellectuality of these activities is already present.
The Undercommons (2013)
Rehearsal—a digital corridor—is an ongoing and growing collation
of original (& borrowed) ephemera.
See here.
Rehearsal seeks works, works-in-progress, experiments,
unfinished and finessed ideas alike for a Summer-long season
of open submissions. See below for criteria...
Poems
Up to ten poems, either in English language
or English language translation.
Proseworks /
either fiction or non-fiction.
There is no wordcount in place for prose submissions,
in the belief that any such limitations for online publication
are arbitrary, and a work needs be as long as it needs be.
Should your submission be in excess of 5000 words, please
share a sample in the first instance.
Visual work
Of any form or discipline.
Photography
Photoessays, portfolios or standalone works
are encouraged.
For a keener sense of the stripe and variety
of work we’re looking for, see here for works
published thus far in the Rehearsal series.
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Please address all materials
(and general enquiries) for the
attention of Dominic Jaeckle
to the following address.
submissions@tenementpress.com
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Alongside your submission, please include a brief biographic note. Visual or accompanying visual materials should be sent as .jpg/.png and—wherever possible—please avoid sharing temporary download links over the course of our reading window. Tenement Press is managed by a voluntary team of editors; due to the number of enquiries recieved, we are not in a position to offer feedback on prospective projects and/or incoming submissions. The Tenement editors will be in touch prior to the end of October ‘25.
Hotel Cordel
A new series of pamphlets
under the Hotel masthead /
open for submissions through
October 2025, 01.10 to 31.10.
Hotel Cordel takes its cue from traditional Spanish ‘Cordel’ literatures. A nineteenth century pamphlet culture that owes to the Portuguese literatura de cordel (translating as a ‘string’ or ‘thread’ literature), Pliegos de cordel / cordel sheets are a cousin to the bibliothèque bleue / blue library in French publishing tradition; a brother to the German Volksbuch / people’s book: an inexpensively printed pamphlet containing folk novelettes, poems, political statements and songs.
So named because they were hung from strings in marketplaces to display these texts to their potential readers, Cordel works would conform to the traditional chapbook format; printed on a single sheet and then folded into a paper concertina of either 8, 12, 16 or 24 pages. Re-versioning this tradition, Hotel Cordel will run as a series of collaborative pamphlets that’ll see Hotel partner with poets; authors; translators; other small press projects; publishers; artists; and curators to produce a series of pocket literatures in the Cordel tradition.
Poetry
Both long form and sequences are welcome /
works in translation are particularly encouraged.
Proseworks
A term to be understood loosely, we welcome fiction
and non-fiction alike, alongside statements and manifestos.
Archival Materials
Of any stripe and variety.
Songs
In the grain and vein of song collectors—viz. Smith / viz. Lomax /
viz. Sharp—and songwriters, collections of lyrics (both historic
and original) are encouraged. Works in translation are particularly
welcomed.
Recipes
For example ...
Tibetan Keema
2 tablespoons Cooking Oil.
1½ / 4cm piece of Ginger
washed, but not peeled,
& finely chopped.
3 large cloves of Garlic
thinly sliced.
1 Red Onion, diced.
1 Tomato, diced.
1lb 2oz / 500g. Ground Beef.
1 teaspoon Bassar Curry Masala. *
1 large (or 2 small) Green Bell Peppers **
cut into 2.5cm / 1 inch pieces.
1 tablespoon Sesame Oil.
* Any chile powder would suffice, with heat a
question of personal preference.
** Okra works well as an alternative to the bell peppers.
Heat the oil in a large wok or frying pan over medium-high heat. When hot, add the ginger and garlic and stirfry until golden brown. Stir in the onion, tomato and salt, and continue to cook for a rough five minutes, or until the onion and tomato have softened. Now add the beef and curry masala / chile, stirring everything together for seven to eight minutes, pressing down on the meat every once in a while to help release its juices. Once these have become reabsorbed, turn the heat down and stir well to stop everything sticking to the pan. Finally, add the green peppers, sesame oil and stir fry for a further six / seven minutes, depending on how soft you like your peppers. If the dish looks a little dry, add a touch of boiling water. Serve with rice, partner with a dal.
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Please address all materials
(and general enquiries) for the
attention of Dominic Jaeckle
to the following address.
submissions@tenementpress.com
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Please include a brief biographical note,
alongside links to any previous publications
and/or exhibited works.
The “Yellowjackets”
A sideways resuscitation of Penguin’s abandoned, yellow-topped miscellany series, an effort to win the colour back from cowardice, Tenement’s “yellowjackets” are a thread of angular, interdisciplinary and experimental works in English and first-time English language translation in which the political and poetic intersect.
Tenement is presently closed for submissions for works in our “Yellowjacket” series; if you’ve submitted a manuscript or proposal over the course of our April ‘24 ‘open call,’ the Tenement editors will be in touch prior to the end of October ‘24.
The Tenement Press editors will be reading submissions for prospective entries in the “Yellowjacket” series from April 1 through 30, 2024. Tenement hopes to support books that resist strict and easy category—works that are angular, inquisitive, argumentative, and engaged—and, for a best sense of the stripe and variety of work we look to champion, our catalogue can be found here.
Poetry & Short Form Prose
A sample text (3000 to 5000 words, for prose submissions; up to ten pages of poems); a proposal of 1000 to 2000 words in length; examples of previous work(s), be it published or unpublished; links to any visual and/or sonic documentation of work(s); for manuscripts in development, a rough writing schedule; a brief biographic note.
Works in Translation
A sample text (3000 to 5000 words, for prose submissions; up to ten pages of poems); a proposal of 1000 to 2000 words in length; examples of previous work(s), be it published or unpublished; for manuscripts in development, a two page outline and rough writing schedule; a brief biographic note (for both the translator and author). For works in translation, please ensure that you have queried the availibility of rights with the relavent parties in advance of your submission.
Novels
A sample text (3000 to 5000 words); a proposal of 1250 to 2000 words in length; examples of previous work(s), be it published or unpublished; links to any visual and/or sonic documentation of work(s); for manuscripts in development, a rough writing schedule; a brief biographic note.
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Please address all materials
(and general enquiries) for the
attention of Dominic Jaeckle
to the following address.
submissions@tenementpress.com
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Tenement Press is managed by a voluntary team of editors; due to the number of enquiries recieved, we are not in a position to offer feedback on prospective projects and incoming submissions. There is a £5 submissions fee payable via the button below; all funds received go toward fairly compensating screeners, editors, and readers.
On payment, please list the same email address as carries your submitted materials.
No University Press
No University Press (NoUP) publishes argumentative work of any field, so long as it is also work that strives beyond its field; work possessing a presentist enthusiasm that works beyond the policies of enclosure that define and underwrite the mission of academic publishing.
Tenement is presently closed for submissions for works in our “No University Press” series; if you’ve submitted a manuscript or proposal over the course of our May ‘24 ‘open call,’ the Tenement editors will be in touch prior to the end of September ‘24.
The Tenement Press and No University Press editors will be reading submissions for prospective entries in the “NoUP” series from May 1 through 31, 2024. We seek work from both within and outside of the academy that represents the ideas, the processes, the meanings of institutionalities gone awry. Work from within the academy that draws away from its enclosures and institutionalities at every moment, in every line, and work from without the academy that might tempt academicians to stray.
The “No” of NoUP is no negation, but a means of opening forms of argument impelled by enthusiasm and exploration. NoUP will publish and support work that would otherwise be lost to a readership gated by critical and institutionalist governance. We seek work riddled by the dynamics of doubt. Unmoored work that strives to exist without the pressure of affiliation. A refusal of the adjunct, the subordinate, the sense of structural dispensability that saddles a monograph. Emergent work on emergency. Positive work. Peripheral works. Minor works on minor authors. Furious, engaged works. Cross analyses of fury. Quick work. Slow work. New work. Old work. Invested work. Political work. Porous work. Short work, characterized by openness and incompletions that remain avenues of entry to the uninitiated reader, reopening unhealed scars of patched up conclusions to unhealable disagreements. Collaborative and cooperative work. Tangled work. Open work. A disciplinary bleed.
Submissions are encouraged from all quarters; and work of any stripe and variety; be you author, translator, critic, poet, academic, artist, activist, filmmaker, archivist, librarian, musician, early-bird, or night-owl, et cetera.
A proposal of 1500 to 2500 words in length; examples of previous work(s), be it published or unpublished; links to any visual and/or sonic documentation of work(s); for manuscripts in development, a two page outline and rough writing schedule; a brief biographic note.
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Please address all materials
(and general enquiries) for the
attention of Benjamin Pickford
& Dominic Jaeckle to the
following address.
benjamin.pickford@no-university-press.com
cc. submissions@tenementpress.com
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Tenement Press is managed by a voluntary team of editors; due to the number of enquiries recieved, we are not in a position to offer feedback on prospective projects and incoming submissions. There is a £5 submissions fee payable via the button below; all funds received go toward fairly compensating screeners, editors, and readers.
On payment, please list the same email address as carries your submitted materials.
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Images
Doug Harvey, Assorted (Mouldy) 35mm slides, © 2024
