Paréntesis

An international hidden publishing system for unpublished authors

Publishing project /
participatory art
several media

Website
www.parentesispublication.com

Category
Publishing,
literature

Paréntesis is a publishing project that uses collaborative strategies to help print texts by unpublished authors and distribute them secretly in traditional publishing circles. Since 2022, an open international call has been running, inviting authors to send literary texts the length of an A4 page (short stories, poems, essays, fragments of longer works, etc.) to be printed and then hidden in books of their choice in bookstores and libraries around the world. To this end, Paréntesis has a network of cooperation partners made up of artists, writers and cultural workers who voluntarily print the texts at home or in copy shops for less than one euro, then hide them and document the process with photos. In this way, Paréntesis aims to create an alternative literary archive that circulates hidden within the structures of traditional publishing distribution and is always waiting to be discovered.

To date, with the voluntary support of 20 cooperation partners, around 50 literary texts have been printed and hidden in 8 countries and in 4 different languages, in parts of the world as diverse as Ghana, Bolivia and Germany. Information about the authors and the documentation of the project can be found at www.parentesispublication.com where you can also register as a contributor or as an author to be published.

Publishing house
Trashumantes

Creative Direction
Camilo Baquero

Art Direction & Design
Camilo Baquero

In collaboration with writers and artist around the world.
For more information please visit www.parentesispublication.com