All submissions for all of Becoming’s platforms should be sent to our house email: hello@becoming.press
Each platform deals with different media, and each have their own take on Becoming’s over-encompassing editorial spiral.
GUIDELINES
When it comes to submissions, we want to maintain an established practice at Becoming, one that relates to our mytho-poetic writings about Tethys, Goddess of Oceanic Currents, Circles and the Sinusoidal patterns. We never know what kind of print projects are coming up, not until we notice signs in the sky or until omens breach the surface, so there isn’t much chance for you to submit something for printing — we solicit contributions in line with the projects that emerge. As projects begin to present themselves, we start to imagine how people may fit into them, which means we already need to know you — though this is a practice that has developed in reverse: people would submit works to us, we would publish them online, then when we want to develop something printed, we call upon the people we already work with, to help us realise the print works. It is not about exclusivity or gatekeeping, it is the way we synthesise print projects out of the connections we have already been developing. The easiest way to get “in the loop” is to follow this flow: do not create something for us, just create—we can find a home and nurture your output, which also brings you into our collective unconscious, out of which print projects materials. Start smaller, and build things with us, meet our contributors, talk to them.
Text submissions will most likely go to SWERVE, though in ultra-specific circumstances they will be selected for Eternal/Return or *COMING SOON*.
Music submissions will go to Eternal/Return, either presented as an edition (albums, eps) or as a recital (singular long-form performances), or as a programme (serial, long-form works like radio shows).
Video art and Film submissions, as well as some specific texts that relate to the practice of film-making and video art making, will go to *COMING SOON*. This field is still in development, as it is currently transitioning from being simply a collection of films submitted to us, into a communal archiving and publishing project based on a manifesto written by friends of Becoming.
We do accept unsolicited book proposals, though we are more or less full booked until 2026, by which time we may have moved into a phase of collectively organised and experimental works rather than fully individuated publications by a single author.