[Commlist] mediastudies.press book manuscript submission window

mediastudies.press <https://www.mediastudies.press/>, the scholar-led 
and nonprofit OA publisher, is happy to announce our annual proposal 
window from 1 June to 31 July, 2026. During this date window, authors 
are encouraged to submit a proposal for review.

mediastudies.press <https://www.mediastudies.press/> welcomes 
submissions from scholars across media, communication, and film studies. 
We currently publish in five series:

  *

    Media Manifold series
    <https://www.mediastudies.press/media-manifold-series> — /monographs
    and other book-length works of contemporary media scholarship/

  *

    Public Domain series
    <https://www.mediastudies.press/public-domain-series> — /reprints of
    neglected classics, in new critical editions anchored by framing
    introductions/

  *

    Open Reader series
    <https://www.mediastudies.press/open-reader-series> — /themed
    collections of openly licensed, public domain, and linked materials
    curated and introduced by leading experts/

  *

    History of Media Studies series
    <https://www.mediastudies.press/history-of-media-studies> —
    /monographs and other original scholarly works centered on history
    of media, communication, and film studies/

  *

    Goffman in the Open series
    <https://www.mediastudies.press/goffman-in-the-open-series> —
    /public domain texts, monographs, translations, and other original
    scholarly works centered on the Canadian-American sociologist Erving
    Goffman/

We are small and artisanal by mission, and aim to publish just five 
books a year. Given the volume of proposals that we receive—and with our 
production schedule in mind—we maintain an annual proposal window (1 
June to 31 July), for the review of manuscripts slated for publication 
in the following calendar year. You are welcome to send informal queries 
<mailto:press@mediastudies.press>outside these dates, but our general 
practice is to only consider proposals within the annual window. Each 
year, we review proposals with an initial reply by August 30, with the 
aim to conduct peer review of proposals of expressed interest by the end 
of October.

mediastudies.press <https://www.mediastudies.press/> is an open-access 
publisher for the media and communication studies fields. The press 
is nonprofit and scholar-led. We publish living works, with iterative 
updates stitched into our process. And we 
encourage multi-modal submissions that reflect the mediated environments 
our authors study.

Publishing with mediastudies.press <https://www.mediastudies.press/> is 
free on principle. Our aim is to demonstrate, on a small scale, an 
open-access publishing model supported by libraries rather than author 
fees, via the Open Book Collective 
<https://openbookcollective.org/view/collections/2/>. Open access for 
readers, we believe, should not be traded for new barriers to authorship.

All our published works are rigorously peer-reviewed, and receive 
unusual editorial attention. We prioritize discoverability through 
careful metadata, library records, and directory listings. As a 
scholar-run operation, our publicity outreach is uncommonly informed by 
the fields’ intellectual contours.

We kindly ask that proposals be submitted 
<https://www.mediastudies.press/proposals> as a single PDF. Proposals 
should include the following elements, in addition to at least one draft 
chapter:

 1.

    Proposed title and subtitle

 2.

    A 500- to 1000-word narrative description of the book

 3.

    Short bios of author(s) and/or editor(s)

 4.

    Proposed series (see above)

 5.

    Tentative table of contents, preferably annotated

 6.

    Estimated word count

 7.

    Multi-modal components, if any

 8.

    Status of the book (i.e., expectation of completion date, the
    portion now complete)

 9.

    At least one draft chapter

To submit your work to mediastudies.press, please follow our submission 
link <https://www.mediastudies.press/proposal-form>.

If you have any questions at all about the proposal process for books, 
please contact us, Dave Park and Jeff Pooley at press@mediastudies.press



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