scroll publishes experimental, multilingual, technical, artistic, activist, poetic, and ethereal booklets in a chaotic and resistance-oriented network of open access distribution. The booklets are the textual remains that were left behind on the bottom shelf, stashed away, in transit, or too eclectic to fit onto other shelves. The booklets are formatted with free software from plaintext, with both the code and text accessible on the internet, then printed in a local studio in a small edition, hand-bound, and circulate in a not-for-profit and decentralised manner through bookstores, fairs, exhibitions as well as through civil society: If you find a book in its physical form and decide to take it with you, you accept the promise to pass it on to someone or someplace else.
open call
scroll is looking for stashed away works that did not fit anywhere else but should still find readers in our worlds.
the works can be in any format and medium, ranging from one to fifty pages: Technical manuals, code or descriptions of forgotten software, a series of photos from a vacation in which you were more occupied with documenting the accelerating tourism than your family, a letter that was never sent to the recipient, an article that ended up fitting more into the arts and humanities than natural sciences or the other way around, a score with accompanied digital files or physical representation, or a story you wrote ten years ago that you are still not quite sure about.
scroll offers the option to publish the works anonymously or under a pseudonym. In this initial call, we do not have the resources to compensate you monetarily, but we do offer editing, formatting, printing, binding and distribution. The format and distribution in scroll can generate many questions. Do not hesitate to reach out if you have questions before sending your work over. Your proposal, or question, should be send to the following email: