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There will also be a print on demand book available with a selection of articles. This will be ready so that it can be ordered around the time that content is beginning to come out online. Only magazine style texts will be considered for the printed book, you can read more about formats further down.
The theme of the Knutpunkt 2018 conference is “Shuffling the Deck”. We have chosen to interpret that as highlighting the diverse nature of larp, wanting to showcase a multitude of themes in a variety of formats. We especially want to lift the scenes that have been less visible in previous Knutpunkt publications.
The publication will have five main themes, roughly mirroring the five tracks of the conference. We encourage you to use them as starting points for your contributions and be as creative as possible!
Spades: Larp analysis, discussion and reflection.
Diamonds: Larp design tools, tips and tricks.
Clubs: The practicalities of organizing larp.
Hearts: Participant stories and designers’ post-mortems.
Joker: Discussions and reflections on issues within and opportunities for the (nordic) larp community.
Language & Style
All submitted content must be in accessible, and in English.This doesn’t mean that each piece of content must be easy to understand without any prior knowledge, but it should be clear and to the point. We will base our editing in the Nordiclarp.org Style Guide and you can use it as a reference.
Formats
Blog post/Magazine style text: An illustrated text at 1500-3500 words. Submissions of this kind will be considered for the print-on-demand book.
Pictorials: Photo essays with little or no text. Submission of this kind will be considered for the print-on-demand book.
Video or audio: Any format, 5-15 minutes in length. All video and audio must be in English if possible and have subtitles or transcripts in English.
Art: Any format, as long as it can be published online.
Long text: A longer text of maximum 8000 words.
Other: Any other type of content that can be published online.
Practical
Timeline
Until September 30 2017: proposals, concepts, and ideas.
October 31: the deadline to submit your final draft.
During November and December content will be edited and prepared for publication.
During January and February content will be published weekly.
Process
Rough Description
Your rough description should in a couple of paragraphs describe your submission and cover the format of the content (is it a video or a text, for example), it’s size, it’s theme and what you want to say.
Rights
The Knutepunkt 2018 Companion is published under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. This means that the material is free to use, remix and share as long as the derivative work is attributed to the original author and not commercial in nature. The contributors of course still retain the possibility to license their work for commercial use.
Format
Final submissions will be submitted through an online form, which will ask for a max 400 word abstract, keywords, and references, and in the case of audio or video submissions, a transcript. (This is not required for the first proposal.)
Send your proposal to our contact email address: book@knutpunkt.se
The Team
The Companion is a collaboration between the editorial staff of Nordiclarp.org and the Knutpunkt 2018 organizers.
Editors in Chief
Johannes Axner is the founder and Editor in Chief of Nordiclarp.org, an online magazine and knowledge portal about larp.
Annika Waern is a professor in the field of Human–computer interaction at the department of Informatics and Media at Uppsala University, Sweden. She is an established and seasoned researcher and author on the topic of games in general and larp specifically.
Editing Team
Besides the main editors, the talented editors of Nordiclarp.org will help edit the content.
Contact
Any questions, ideas or feedback can be sent by email to: book@knutpunkt.se