Welcome To Universal Write Publications
We are committed to building a community of authors, scholars, readers, and thinkers. We believe we are living in a time of change, a time of purpose, and a time to make a difference in our individual spaces and places of cultural significance. We recognize the importance of social and historical records, which draws from a diverse past to enrich our common future.
As UWP Books is a small independent press with a very niche audience, we encourage you to understand the mission and vision of UWP, as all authors here are family working towards the mission of community and legacy building. We encourage the collaboration of senior and emerging scholars to bridge the gap of knowledge, and increase faculty development that explores Black history, philosophy, education, religion, science, and other critical topics that recenter, restore, and expand learning. We welcome your book proposals.
How to Submit a Book Proposal
Universal Write Publications Submission Guidelines
Universal Write Publications (UWP) welcomes proposals from Black scholars whose work expands the canon, strengthens intellectual traditions, and advances rigorous interdisciplinary scholarship.
We accept developed proposals; however, please note:
- UWP may issue a Letter of Interest for first right of consideration on a proposed book.
- Contracts are only offered after review of a substantial manuscript submission.
Your Proposal Should Include (6 items):
- Contact Details
Name, email address, phone number, institutional affiliation (if applicable). - Manuscript Details
Working title and subtitle, anticipated length, projected word count, estimated number of images, figures, or tables. - Summary of the Work
In a few paragraphs, summarize the scope of the book, its central argument, and its contribution to the field. - Detailed Table of Contents with Chapter Summaries
Provide a chapter-by-chapter outline with a brief description of each chapter. - Sample Chapters (Required)
Submit at least two to three completed chapters, including the Introduction if available. These should demonstrate your prose, methodological grounding, and scholarly contribution. - Curriculum Vitae or Résumé
Include your most recent CV or résumé highlighting relevant publications, research, and professional background.
UWP Does Not Publish or Consider:
- Works of original fiction (our fiction program is limited to fiction in translation and reprints of classic novels).
- Memoirs or autobiographical works outside an explicitly scholarly context.
- Dissertation proposals that have not been revised into a monograph based on original research.
How to Submit
Please send all proposals and inquiries through our website at https://uwpbooks.com/how-to-submit/ or directly to editor@uwpbooks.com.
The Researcher invites educators, community leaders, activists, philosophers, and creative theorists to submit short essays that express commentary or views on issues and policies affecting the Black community [and the African Diaspora]. Articles published on The Researcher page are designed to be shared with other members of our community and more widely on social media. You can view a few of the articles already submitted on The Researcher. Authors could also be invited to participate in future events and topic discussions with partner organizations. Some guidelines to consider:
- The readers will include students, community leaders, activists, and interested readers. Please keep the language accessible to a general audience.
- Articles should offer an incisive, diagnostic take on education, civil rights, gender, race, politics and history, and other topics of interest to national and global communities.
- Articles that express views on issues and policies in higher education or in your field of expertise.
- Commentary on news reports and national stories.
- Articles should be between 800 and 2,500 words and include URL links to source materials for facts and figures mentioned in the essay.
- Articles can include poems (Poetical Science, which are poems with analysis & global impact), videos, art, music, and other forms of academic expression.
- It is preferred, but not required, that academic scholars include citations and references in the article for academic integrity using any citation style (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).
- Images, graphs, and or indexes are welcome but not required
To maintain the veracity of THE RESEARCHER and the valuable resource it provides to our community, we do not accept articles or parts of articles previously published.
With your submission, you acknowledge the full responsibility that this is your work, and you have the authority to publish this work.
Submit your essay to editor@uwpbooks.com
Commitment to Authors
The UWP commitment to quality production is synonymous with our commitment to fostering and sustaining healthy and prosperous relationships with each of our authors. We pay close attention to detail, welcome creative input, and vision as well as work with many industry leaders to produce quality publications. From professionally edited content to professional designer book covers, every aspect of production is engaged with quality at the forefront.
Publication Process
UWP is committed to a rigorous review of our publications. Our rigor includes, but is not limited to, soundness of method, orientation of literature in African-centered thought, extending African-centered scope of understanding, contemplation, and examination.
Commitment to Research, Scholar, and Person
UWP publishes works that are oriented in fact-based data-driven research, our commitment is to humanize, personalize, and lend greater credibility and scope for consideration of the African-centered experience and worldview. UWP is uncompromising about its commitment to the integrity, respect, and well-regard of African-centered personhood, life, and legacy literature.
Community Building
UWP is strongest at our core in community and culture. In collaboration with our boards and strategic partnerships, we maintain an African Centered mission that nourishes and nurtures the whole being of the scholar-activists, particularly when uninterrupted by other worldviews, change in political weaponization of narratives, histories, and peoples. We leverage our knowledge, passions, and global scopes by setting the standards of Black Academic Excellence through our competitive rigor and quality research while advocating for the education that has been censored and marginalized. Publishing with UWP is joining a family, who work together to achieve and exceed everything that represents the brilliance of our historical genius.
Wide Distribution
Our commitment to wide distribution of publications is because we recognize that African-centered thought, action, self-love, and literature are not widely accepted by most mainstream venues. UWP retains a team that discusses the author’s capacity and media readiness as well as the literary content and develops a strategic marketing plan scaled for wide distribution to ensure market presence which directly impacts sells.
Marketing & Sales for Your Audience
UWP recognizes its placement among publishing companies. As a publishing company focusing on African-centered literature we work to ensure we access and sustain relationships fostering market access and brand recognition critical to yielding viable sales and market “buzz” resulting in a multitude of opportunities for our authors to promote their respective publications as well as the UWP brand. In as much as our rigor is African-centered, so too is our integrable approach to marketing and promotion of our products and UWP family of authors.