Incoming Manuscript Registration
1. Overview and Context
The annual submission period for new manuscripts lasts from May 1 to July 31 each year. During this period, authors and editors are invited to send in (nearly) completed manuscript accompanied by a brief prospectus via email to the co-directors. The beginning of the annual submission period is announced on social media and the punctum blog.
2. Triggers
The execution of this procedure is usually triggered by
3. Steps to Be Performed
- Post a blog post announcing the opening of the annual submission season on May 1.
This is a sample text:
From May 1 until July 31, prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts for review by the directors of punctum books (Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei) and its Editorial Advisory Board. This year we are looking to accept around twenty to twenty-five manuscripts for publication in 2025–2026.
We welcome submissions for monographs and edited collections from authors working in any field in the humanities, social sciences, fine arts, and architecture & design who want to publish books that are genre-queer and genre-bending and which take experimental risks with the forms and styles of intellectual writing.
Three primary concentrations for us are: (1) books that shift the paradigm in established disciplines; (2) books that help to create emerging transdisciplinary fields; and (3) books that play in the fields of creatively speculative thought.
In particular, we would like to invite women-identifying, BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+, and/or disabled authors to send in their manuscripts for consideration.
More information on the submission process can be found online.
4. Additional Information
5. Document Control
| Document ID | PRO-027 |
| Document Owner | Vincent |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Last Date of Change | November 10, 2025 |
| Next Review Due Date | |
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