Publishing and Communication, Rooted in Community
Everyone’s a publisher now, so how do you chose what honours care, creativity and community?
Not sure if this is for you? These might help.
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That's what Radically Hopeful offers — individual, guided support rather than generic workshops or group programmes. Sessions are structured around your specific work, your specific audience, and your specific constraints. The pace is yours to set.
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Typically fortnightly, hour-long sessions alongside email support — a rhythm that creates space for thinking without overwhelming an already full working life. The focus is always on your work and what it needs, not on a fixed programme or predetermined outcomes. Some clients are working out where to publish; others are untangling a complex, multi-strand project with several potential outputs and audiences.
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Both. The work sits at the intersection of scholarship and creative practice, which means it's genuinely useful for scholars who make things and makers who research — and for anyone whose work crosses those boundaries in ways that don't map tidily onto existing publishing categories.
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Radically Hopeful offers publishing and research communication strategies for creative and practice-led scholars — the kind of thoughtful, one-to-one support that helps you share your work carefully and in community. It's not a press office or a marketing service. It's a thinking partnership, rooted in the belief that you already have everything you need — we just work together to find its right shape and its right moment.
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Primarily with researchers and scholars working in creative, participatory, arts-based, and practice-led methods — people whose work doesn't fit neatly into traditional academic publishing formats. That includes artists who think analytically, academics who write creatively, and community-engaged researchers who want to share their work with the people it's actually for, not just with other academics.
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Those are institutional frameworks — useful in their context, but built around funder requirements and impact agendas. Radically Hopeful works differently: slowly, reflectively, and in genuine partnership. The question here isn't "how do we demonstrate impact?" but "what does this work need in order to reach the right people, in the right form, at the right time?"
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That's exactly the territory Radically Hopeful works in. Many collaborators arrive feeling that tension acutely — the sense that their methods and their publishing options don't quite match. The work together is about finding the publishing and communication strategies that honour both the rigour and the creativity, without flattening either.ription
Careful crafting of publishing and communication strategies with and for creative scholars and scholarly creatives.
Our chapter in Humanities Forward: Opportunity, Innovation, Policy in the 21st Century calls for radically inclusive, values-based publishing practices as essential facets of all forms of publicly engaged scholarship in the humanities.
Open Access via the Liverpool University Press site and edited by Stephan Nitu and Arlene Holmes Henderson
ISBN:9781805969112 (Hardback) |ISBN:9781805967446 (Paperback) |eISBN:9781805967453 (PDF) |eISBN:9781805967460 (ePub)
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