Värt att veta – subjects worth knowing about are worth writing about

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.

Researcher, become an author in Värt att veta

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 your suggestion

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.

Will your suggestion become a book?

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