Suggest a Story
Recommend a culturally significant short story and share what you know about its edition, context and rights pathway.
04 / Contribute
Many kinds of knowledge build an archive.
Contribution is structured around care, evidence, consent and review—not an open upload queue. Choose the path that matches what you can responsibly offer.
Register interest ↗
Become a Translator
Translate an assigned source text with transparent credit, review and revision history.
Narrate a Story
Record a verified textual version with language review, accessibility metadata and clear recording consent.
Help Digitise
Transcribe and proofread source editions while preserving page-level provenance.
Contribute Metadata / Context
Add sourced publication history, author records, lexical notes or literary context.
Partner With SHABD
Collaborate as a library, archive, university, publisher, cultural institution or language organisation.
Volunteer
Support research, editorial operations, accessibility, design, technology or community coordination.
Before you contribute
What contributors can expect.
Named credit appropriate to the work and the contributor’s wishes.
Documented review rather than silent editorial intervention.
Clear rights for text, translation, recording and metadata contributions.
No immediate upload until submission, privacy and consent infrastructure is ready.