Submissions — Tenement Press

Tenement Press & Plastic Language / NTS

A ‘Summer-wide’ Open Call
for Recorded Works & Sonic Poetries

Open for submissions 01.07.24 / 01.09.24

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^{Via London’s NTS, and ℅ Will René—librarian at the Southbank Centre’s National Poetry Library—Plastic Language is a bi-monthly show exploring spoken word across recorded media (spanning dub, jazz, ASMR, sound poetry and a myriad more), and wherein René’s selections are informed by—but not limited to—the collection of poetry LPs held at the National Poetry Library. Previous episodes in René’s ongoing series have included collaborations, readings and new work from Roger Robinson, Moor Mother and Phil Elverum.}
_{SEE HERE FOR PRIOR INSTALMENTS OF PLASTIC LANGUAGE}

^{John Divola, from the ‘Zuma’ series,

circa 1977 / 1978}

Send on your recordings ...

^{Following a Summer-long open call, René and Tenement’s Dominic Jaeckle will be sifting through submitted materials on the hunt for works to feature in the final instalment of Plastic Language for this calendar year; a broadcast that’ll air during the early-bird, twilight hours of November 27th, and that will then be archived for posterity on the NTS website thereafter.}_{SUBMIT YOUR WORK HERE}

Particulars & Necessaries

_{︎︎︎    We welcome a wide variety of works

    combining sound and language.

︎︎︎    No straightforward, unaccompanied poems;

   no straightforward songs;
i.e., with lyrics either

   sung or spoken without accompaniment.)

︎︎︎    Text and sound must be your own—collaborative works

are
welcome—but only
one piece may be submitted per

    person
or
group, with a duration of five minute maximum.

︎︎︎    Tracks do not have to be exclusive or unreleased works,

   although they can be; we also welcome works that have

   already
been
released and/or previously published.

︎︎︎    Previous volumes of Plastic Language should gift
a good

      idea of what might be selected, including the 2023 Open

Call edition, featuring the text and sound duo (comprising

poet and performer Iris Colomb and composer Daryl
Worthington,
[something’s happening].

Direct all and any queries or questions to Will René

via plasticlanguageradio@gmail.com.

(NB. We will not be accepting submissions via email;
submit via the webform link will below.)}

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Tenement’s MMXXIV Open Call

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 August ‘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
cc. editors@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.

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.}

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