[Commlist] Call for Proposals: Experimental Book Pilot Projects

The Open Book Futures (OBF) project isdelighted to announce support and 
funding for three experimental book publishing pilots. These book pilot 
projects will be developed with OBF’s Experimental Publishing Group 
supported byCoventry University and will be overseen by the Open Book 
Collective.

*We are inviting individuals and project teams to submit proposals for 
experimental, long-form scholarly book projects. *

Visit our open call to find out more 
_https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/expub-pilot-call/_

*Deadline for applications: 22 November 2023*

The call is open to individuals looking to collaborate and to already 
formed project teams (which can consist of authors, publishers, open 
source technology and software providers, librarians, and designers). If 
you apply without a complete project team, we will work with you to find 
suitable collaborators. Work on the pilots must start on 1 April 2024 
and the pilots must be finalised by 1 April 2026.

Experimental book publishing can include experiments with the form and 
format of the scholarly book; with the various (multi)media through 
which books can be performed; and with the ways in which scholarship can 
be produced, disseminated, and consumed, as well as reviewed, reused, 
and interacted with. It can also include experiments that reimagine the 
relationalities that constitute academic writing, research, and 
publishing, and that speculate on what the future of the book and the 
humanities might look like beyond the printed codex-format as 
the standard publication choice.

We want to work closely with authors, presses, and technology providers 
to create pilot projects and communities of practiceto explore how to 
bestenable and support experimental book publishing together, 
whileseeking to increase the recognition given to work published in 
non-traditional ways.

Open Book Futures (OBF)is the successor to the Community-led 
OpenPublishingInfrastructures for Monographs (COPIM)projectwhich ran 
from 2019 to 2023. COPIMsupported three experimental publishing pilot 
projects in collaboration with publishers, authors, designers, and 
tooland platformproviders.



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