Submit your manuscript
We welcome submissions from authors across all our publishing categories. We do not charge submission fees; please note our policy on Author Processing Charges (APCs) for academic publications below.
What we publish. We publish fiction, poetry, creative criticism, and academic volumes. For fiction, poetry, and creative criticism, there is no publication fee. For academic volumes, we follow the open-access model now preferred by universities and research institutions, and rely on Author Processing Charges (APCs) to fund publication. Our APCs are at about 10% of what more established publishers are able to offer.
Open access and rights. Open-access academic titles are published under a CC BY 4.0 licence. For all our publications, authors retain full rights to the manuscript; Tankebanen forlag reserves the right of publication and distribution for a renewable three-year period.
Manuscript preparation. We are a small, independent press and do not maintain a large in-house copy-editing or proofreading capacity. We therefore ask that manuscripts arrive in publication-ready form. We accept Word and OpenOffice documents, as well as a variety of other formats – please enquire if you are unsure.
Translations. We are able to publish translations and can assist in identifying potential translators. Authors wishing to submit a translation must confirm that they hold full rights to the source text and that they are able to allocate funding for the translation work.
Review. All submissions are reviewed before a publication decision is made.
What we offer. Upon acceptance, we provide:
- a unique ISBN
- DOIs for academic publications
- professional, high quality typesetting
- author's proofs
- timely publication: we work on a human scale. where dominant publishers may take a year or more from submission to publication – and charge substantial fees for the privilege – we typically bring manuscripts to publication within a few months of acceptance
- print-on-demand production for physical editions
- distribution through all major international bookselling platforms and indexing in leading academic databases
To submit a manuscript please use this form.
To make an informal enquiry, contact us via email on post@tankebanen.no. We respond to all enquiries, typically within one week.