Can anyone submit to the library

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I saw a guideline "we are not a self-publishing"... but at the same time works must appear the first time somewhere? Can anyone just write up any reasonably well written piece of anarchist (or anarchist-related) literature and have it hosted here? Does the anarchist library website then do anything to further publicise new works so potential readers might see them? Thanks

rocinante Tue, 10/14/2025 - 22:14

Hello,

First, I will mention that I'm responding here an someone that works on the English library. I know that other languages have slightly different approaches and ideas when it comes to this. Overall the answer is - yes, anyone can submit their texts to the library. It is very rare for the English library to self-publish texts via Anonymous without a prior source, but it has happened in the past in rare circumstances. One possible example as an exception, is if a librarian personally knows the author IRL as a way to source. Another more common example is if the text is especially well written and meaningful, then librarians will read it and publish it own the texts own merit.

More often than not, author self-submissions without a prior source are sent to the bin to collect the dusts of time.

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