Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland > Värt att veta
Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland > Värt att veta
Our popular science book series Värt att veta (Worth knowing) publishes research-based knowledge in an appealing format for a wide audience.
The books are only about 60 pages long, but are loaded with new words, unexpected thoughts and themes.
A Värt att veta book costs only a few euros and you can read it during a train journey from Helsinki to Tampere.
What’s worth knowing? We are looking for those who are eager to tell. Is there a theme that you want to deepen, explain, and open for a broad audience of readers? Now there’s a chance to present something big or small, untangle an issue and make the seemingly unclear clear.
Send in your synopsis to vartattveta@sls.fi by 30 April 2024 at the latest.
Describe the topic and the research you have done on it and motivate why you would be a suitable author for Värt att veta. Also include a preliminary disposition.
The length of the synopsis: 2,000 characters including spaces.
You can write in Finnish, Swedish or English.
We will contact the chosen writers by 15 June 2024.
Send in your final manuscript by 30 September 2024.
The maximum length of the manuscript is 70,000 characters including spaces.
The manuscript can be written in Swedish, Finnish, or English. Choose the language you know the best and use your native language as the first choice. The book is published in Swedish since we want to support Swedish non-fiction. If the manuscript is published, we will pay for any possible translation costs.
The text can be based on a scientific text or article that you have published earlier, but the book should consist of a new text.
References or notes are not included in the Värt att veta books, but an index and bibliography are. It’s not envisaged that the books will contain images, tables, or diagrams.
SLS publishes books within arts and social sciences but the themes in Värt att veta can also be within other topics.
A one-off compensation of €1,500 per manuscript is paid when the book is sent for printing
Two experts will comment on the manuscript after it has been handed in.
You will edit the text together with our team of editors during late autumn 2024 and start of 2025.
The book will be published in spring 2025 both as a print, an audio book, and an e-book on sls.fi.
Contact Head of Publishing Patricia Berg
patricia.berg@sls.fi
+35841 548 8222
