Ayin Press is now accepting book proposals and manuscripts for review. We are particularly interested in works that connect to our editorial frames of Speculative Theology, Political Imagination, and Radical Aesthetics. Please refer to our website for more information about these curatorial commitments, and for a sense of our general aesthetics and ethos. All genres of writing are appreciated, and we welcome multiple submissions.
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Ayin Press is a nonprofit organization, and we depend on support from our community (readers, artists, authors, collaborators, and beyond) to do our work. Your $5 submission fee helps make it possible for us to carefully read and consider your work. Thank you!
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Our estimated response time is 7-10 months, and we do accept simultaneous submissions; just let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere.
Please note that we are unable to respond to inquiries about the status of your submission. We will let you know when we’ve had a chance to review!
A folio is a collection of works related by theme, medium, or process. Folios can be the work of a single author/artist, or a collective effort of multiple contributors. Not too short, not too long. Like a chapbook for the internet.
Curators, writers, editors, and artists are welcome to pitch folios that work within one genre or experiment with a multiplicity of mediums. We want to see digital zines, chapbooks of essays and poems, multimedia exhibitions made for the internet, dialogues and exchanges, sketchbooks, and compilations of linked works in any style or form.
Please submit your folio proposal below.
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Ayin Press is a nonprofit organization, and we depend on support from our community (readers, artists, authors, collaborators, and beyond) to do our work. Your $5 submission fee helps make it possible for us to carefully read and consider your work. Thank you!
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Our estimated response time is 7-10 months, and we do accept simultaneous submissions; just let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere.
Please note that we are unable to respond to inquiries about the status of your submission. We will let you know when we’ve had a chance to review!
Somewhere is an imprint of Ayin Press that publishes children’s books, art books, comics, zines, and other graphic and illustrated works.
Universal in scope, Somewhere is a play on the concept of utopia—whose etymology in Latin means no-place. Rather than dwell in abstraction, our books seek to make imagined worlds as tangible as possible—easily visitable for both children and adults alike.
At once classic and experimental, Somewhere is a place to explore the limits of our imagination and deepen our connection with the world.
We are accepting submissions of all kinds, currently with special interest in children’s books and other illustrated works.
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Ayin Press is a nonprofit organization, and we depend on support from our community (readers, artists, authors, collaborators, and beyond) to do our work. Your $5 submission fee helps make it possible for us to carefully read and consider your work. Thank you!
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Our estimated response time is 7-10 months, and we do accept simultaneous submissions; just let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere.
Please note that we are unable to respond to inquiries about the status of your submission. We will let you know when we’ve had a chance to review!
Beta, or bet, is the second letter of both the Greek and Hebrew alphabet /aleph-bet. In Hebrew, bet is a preposition, meaning “in”; it is, famously, the first letter of the Bible: Be’reisheet, “In the [process of] beginning.” Additionally, the Kabbalists tell us that the bet of “in the beginning” signifies that worlds have been made and destroyed before; we are not meant to know of those worlds, which is why the letter only opens on one side, the side from which all future text flows. The name of the letter is also a version of the word for house in Hebrew, bayt or bayit, defining the bounds of inside and outside, a site of construction and deconstruction. Bet contains and cultivates all of these meanings within itself, signifying the dynamic relationship between creativity, structure, and consciousness.
In the tech world, beta refers to a particular stage in the development of a prototype. After the “alpha”—the first iteration of a product, which is only shared internally (just like the worlds that came before the bet of be’reisheet were hidden)—comes the “beta”: the first iteration released to the public, a kind of test version, imperfect and in process. In the beta phase, the focus is on finding and fixing bugs, and other critical issues, before launch. Playtesting a game in beta is a method of quality control that is integral to the design process. Users play unfinished versions of a game to work out flaws, and most importantly to make sure the game is fun.
Ayin Beta opens up a realm to explore the future of the book through digital and interactive art, games, emerging technology, and AI. Telling new stories, beta-testing new worlds.
We are currently accepting submissions of digital art, including games, generative art, and creative explorations of code.
This platform is devised and co-curated with artist Ariel Abrahams.