Konquered Press · Editorial Integrity · Review Board
Help Build the for Public Scholarship.
Konquered Press is building an independent review board for serious nonfiction, peer-reviewed public scholarship, leadership frameworks, cultural analysis, and applied books that must be both rigorous and reachable.
Purpose of the Board
A review system built for books that have to live outside the academy.
The board helps Konquered Press protect rigor while expanding access.
Protect Scholarly Seriousness
Reviewers help evaluate claims, sources, evidence, interpretation, and disciplinary grounding before publication.
Strengthen Public Reach
Konquered Press books must be readable, teachable, and usable by communities, leaders, institutions, and classrooms.
Build Trust Through Process
The board helps create visible standards for external review, conflict disclosure, ethical framing, and editorial integrity.
Review Standards
We are looking for reviewers who can hold both rigor and reach.
Konquered Press review is not a rubber stamp. Reviewers are asked to examine manuscripts for accuracy, evidence, ethical framing, clarity, contribution, and responsible public argument.
Who We Are Looking For
Scholars, practitioners, editors, and public thinkers with standards.
We are building an interdisciplinary review community, not a decorative list of names.
Scholars
PhDs, MDs, DrPHs, JDs, EdDs, historians, sociologists, ethicists, public health scholars, and Black studies scholars.
Practitioners
Clinicians, institutional leaders, educators, nonprofit executives, public health directors, legal advocates, and policy leaders.
Editors + Writers
Developmental editors, narrative nonfiction editors, cultural critics, essayists, journalists, and public-facing scholars.
Community Experts
Movement leaders, organizers, advocates, caregivers, institutional witnesses, and people with deep lived or applied expertise.
Ways to Serve
Choose the level of contribution that fits your expertise and capacity.
Not every contributor needs to review every book. The structure lets people serve with precision.
Editorial and Peer Review Council
Senior scholars, editors, public intellectuals, and practitioners who advise the press, strengthen review standards, recommend reviewers, and support the credibility of the publishing model.
Manuscript Reviewer Pool
Experts who review manuscripts, proposals, briefs, or field guides in their areas of expertise and provide structured feedback using a Konquered Press rubric.
Public Impact Readers
Practitioners, community leaders, cultural critics, and applied experts who assess usefulness, clarity, ethical framing, audience fit, and public consequence.
Annual Review & Publication Pathway
One annual submission cycle. Peer-reviewed selection. Five titles published each year.
Konquered Press accepts submissions once each year. Selected manuscripts move through editorial screening, independent review, revision, and final publication decision.
Reviewer Application Requirements
We are looking for reviewers with expertise, care, independence, and judgment.
Konquered Press reviewers help protect the integrity of books that move across scholarship, public life, institutions, culture, and community impact.
Relevant Expertise
Applicants should have demonstrated expertise in one or more review areas, including scholarship, public health, medicine, law, ethics, history, Black studies, education, leadership, cultural criticism, editing, community practice, or institutional work.
Review Discipline
Reviewers should be able to provide clear, constructive, evidence-aware feedback on accuracy, argument, structure, sourcing, ethical framing, readability, and public consequence.
Independence
Reviewers must disclose conflicts of interest, financial relationships, close personal relationships, prior involvement with the manuscript, or any condition that could compromise independent judgment.
Confidentiality
Reviewers must treat manuscripts, proposals, review materials, author information, and editorial decisions as confidential unless Konquered Press provides written permission to share.
Public Scholarship Orientation
Reviewers should understand that Konquered Press books are built for serious public audiences, meaning the review must protect rigor while also supporting clarity, access, and use beyond the academy.
Application Materials
Applicants should be prepared to submit a short bio, areas of expertise, relevant credentials or experience, preferred review role, availability, conflicts disclosure, and optional CV, résumé, website, or publication links.
Join the Review Board
Help build the infrastructure for rigorous public scholarship.
We are looking for people who can review with care, critique with precision, protect evidence, understand public audiences, and help serious books move responsibly into the world. Questions may be sent to press@ikonquer.com.
