Sounding Out! Call for Pitches--Essay Collection + Blog-- Sonic Presents
We’re almost 15. Let’s celebrate!!!! Yes, believe it or not, it’s almost Sounding Out!’s fifteenth anniversary, and we want to make it a BIG one. If you’re just finding us now, Sounding Out! is the world’s longest running sound studies publication. You can read our prior publications at soundstudiesblog.com We’ve been keepin’ it in the red since 2009 and serving up fresh articles weekly.
And what’s an anniversary without presents?
Our present to you? We’ve got an amazing print collection in the works called Power in Listening featuring updated versions of key articles we’ve published on the site, with topics as varied as technology, listening, popular music, public space, surveillance, social justice, memoir, and activism.
Your gift to us? To help us celebrate, we want your best writing on sonic presents:
—the audible presence of the post-2020 “new normal” (however you want to interpret that)
—the multiple vibratory states of the heres and nows of this present moment—what and how are we listening, hearing, and feeling out there?
—the perceptual gifts—presents—that listening offers in the here and now, even when, especially when, tomorrow remains difficult to imagine.
—how can sound and listening enable us to show up—to be present—in contemporary struggle?
We’re interested in short (3000 words or less) chapters that deal with specifically with what study and experience of sound offers us as we take stock of the present moment. Tell us how it is, get loud, and bring your presence to the Sounding Out! community. Mostly, we are excited to engage with pieces that speak to the moment and reveal to us the many important and unmistakable interventions of sound in our day to day lives.
One group of selected essays will be selected for publishing in our print volume—a bonus gift of content for longtime readers!—and will eventually be published digitally (in shorter form) on Sounding Out! (after a period of time specified by the print publisher). Some essays will be selected for publication only on the blog. Either way, you will reach a fantastic group of readers. You don’t already have to have published on SO! to submit—we encourage new folks to contribute!—and folks who have already published on SO! are welcome to pitch new material.
Confirmed authors include: Mitchell Akiyama, Kemi Adeyemi, Airek Beauchamp, Tara Betts, Art Blake, Justin Burton, Dolores Inés Casillas, Steph Ceraso, Milena Droumeva, Amanda Gutierrez, Robin James, Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, Linda O’Keeffe, Priscilla Peña Ovalle, Marlén Ríos, Gustavus Stadler, Dustin Tahmahkera, Vanessa Valdés and more!
Please submit your pitches (300 words or less) via the submission form located on the blog page for this CFP:
Timeline:
Notifications of acceptance in the collection: February 15th, 2023
Full Essays Due: June 15, 2023
Revisions: Summer 2023
We plan to submit the entire collection to our press by September 2023
We are always happy to consider pitches if you want to send us an idea before writing the article as well. Inquiries: (Jennifer Stoever) jstoever@gmail.com , (Aaron Trammell) mobilestudios@gmail.com, and/or (Liana Silva) lianamariesilva@gmail.com
If you are new to the blog or haven't visited us in awhile please check us out before considering submission!
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