Hey you! Have you made friends or found community through fandom? We want to hear about your experience!
What is this?
This is a zine, or a DIY collection of your submissions! It’ll be a booklet that is made available for free online after it’s assembled. We also hope to print a limited number of physical copies for contributors, depending on how many contributors there are and our funding. I hope that this zine will serve as a useful archive for people who want to learn more about this topic and as a way for people to connect with each other and see their experiences reflected in a collection.
What to submit:
We are looking for a blend of scholarly work, personal reflections, and generally thoughtful work. You can submit personal essays, academic papers, art, comics, interviews, oral histories, and more, as long as it can fit on the printed page! You could even submit a zine to include within a zine 🙂 The medium/genre is not as important as the topic.
Brainstorming questions:
What makes fandom friendship special? How have your fandom communities changed over the years; have the ways people relate to each other changed? What can we learn from fandom friendships?
Who am I?
I’m Lianne, and I’m assembling this zine with the support of Fanhackers. Some of my favorite people on the planet are people I met through fandom, so I love this topic 🙂
How to submit:
- Email [email protected] with your piece, how you’d like your name to appear in the zine, your pronouns, and a short bio (100 words maximum). If your piece is a written file, please make sure it is a .docx or .doc file. If it is an image, please send it as a PDF.
- If your work is not in English, we may be able to help translate it into English for you. Please reach out to our email ([email protected]) to discuss this.
- Written works are limited to 8 letter sized pages (double spaced, 12pt font, 1 inch margins on an 8.5×11 default document page). This will come out to about 2,400 words in English prose. Going over a little is okay, but please try to keep your submission under the limit.
- Visual and multimedia works are limited to 8 pages. The size of the zine will be 8.5” (21.59cm) in height and 5.5” (13.97cm) width.
- Everyone here is a volunteer; this is not a paid opportunity.
When to submit:
Please send your submission by November 30, 2024.
Any questions? Send us an ask on Tumblr or email [email protected]!