Do you bring your own experiences into your teaching? Do you bring into your classroom examples of real people's lived experiences? Do you provide your students with a variety of readings give them multiple perspectives?
Lived Places Publishing's mission is to offer faculty course readings that explore the intersection of social identity and place; published in collections led by leading scholars and practitioners, distributed affordably and sustainably through the university library.
Location (whether physical or virtual) has a major impact on the experience of a social identity/identities — be it exclusion, inclusion, difference, etc. Each person's lived experience exists within the context of location, and our books go past data and trends to reveal real human lives. It's a chance to see the world through the eyes of another human.
To submit a proposal for consideration, please download our Proposal Guidelines and submit to our editorial team.
To see if this is a fit for you, here are some basic details on Lived Places Publishing (LPP) books:
Any of our authors can opt in to having their book considered for open access publishing. In our revenue sharing model, 5% of each sale is pooled to fund open access titles. At Lived Places Publishing, authors and their institutions do not pay a fee to publish their work.
Our books can’t be written by AI. They are the unique lived experiences of real people. With that, Lived Places Publishing supports the responsible use of generative AI tools to assist in the production process – provided that they respect high standards of data security, confidentiality, and copyright protection. Authors are responsible for ensuring that the content of their submissions meets the required standards of academic research and writing.
For answers to some of the most commonly asked questions about becoming a Lived Places author, please see our FAQ page.