Common Notions invites proposals for our publishing program of innovative work that showcase the horizons of collective liberation and have the power to create new possibilities for freedom in the present conjuncture. We value writing steeped in shared insight and experience, that embodies a spirit of mutualism and collaboration, and blends storytelling, organizing, and world-making in new, vivid configurations. We work with authors who build narrative self-determination and offer groundbreaking tools and resources for our struggles.

We are particularly interested in building with writers working across a constellation of movements and literary styles, including:

• speculative fiction, fiction, literary nonfiction, and poetry that explores the historical and ongoing legacies of anticolonial politics, the evolving nature of imperialism, and the world-making freedom movements of our times, writing that highlights vital and creative sources of internationalist imagination within the fractures and fault lines of the current world order.

• border abolition, sanctuary, migrant solidarity, refugee and diasporic narratives of internationalist organizing for a world without borders, walls, or cages

• land back, climate justice, Indigenous governance, frontline accounts of water and land defense

• queer, trans, and feminist rebellion and organizing

• anticolonial internationalism, solidarity and self-determination, futures of the nonaligned

• antifascist futures that centers anti-imperialist movements of Black, Indigenous, and Third World peoples

• intersections of abolition, anti-state autonomy, a politics in common, and of the commons

• collective care and health autonomy, science and social movements

• worker militancy , worker inquiry, worker autonomy and refusal, debt & wage abolition

• journalism and media activism from non-western movements, movement histories and contemporary accounts of decolonization from Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the Arab world.

• cultural resistance, art, and graphic liberation

Write to submissions@commonnotions.org with a proposal that offers our editors and marketing team a clear and detailed idea of what your book will be about, what impact it will make, and with whom. Let us know why you are writing this particular book at this particular time and how it advances the development of ideas and practice, as well as makes an intervention that is timely, necessary, and visionary.