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Do you remember the first night you sat down and were
captivated by Vincent’s voice? Let that memory inspire you to create
something
for our next conzine!
Just like the Tunnels, where they give help when needed, we
need your help to create another wonderful zine for this year’s
convention in Wichita.
Through the decades, our conzines have attracted the most talented
creators of
stories, poetry, essays, filks, and art, and next year will be no
different!
But it can't happen
without all of you, so please put on your thinking caps, bribe that
muse (muses
like chocolate, you know… just sayin’!) and contribute.
We can’t wait to seeing what you come up with!
The general guidelines for the 2022 conzine are as
follows:
- Any
and all new creations are welcomed.
- Deadline
for all contributions is May 1, 2022
- Contributions
relating to all seasons and
ratings (G through well-written R) will be considered with 3S and R
identified
as such at the beginning of the piece.
- All submissions must be original and never
before posted online or published elsewhere. Any content that isn’t the
submitter’s own creation (e.g, poetry, song lyrics, art, etc.) must be
clearly
identified and credited.
- If
you use a pen name, please include a note
to
that effect.
Stories, poems, etc.:
- All
submissions must be finished. Unfinished
stories will not be accepted.
- Stories will be edited for grammar and
punctuation without notifying the author. No editing for content will
be done
without discussing with the author.
- Since
this will be a digital zine, there is
no maximum
page limit. But to give all authors a chance to have their work in the
conzine,
no more than six submissions per author will be accepted. There’s no
limit on
the amount of art you can submit.
- We
all suffer from tweak-itis, but all
contributions may only be submitted just once. Any subsequent revisions
for the
same piece will be disregarded.
- Illustrations
can be inserted into your
stories,
but please send the images along as a separate file as well as within
the
document because sometimes they don’t transfer from one software to
another (they’re
prone to fighting amongst themselves and running with scissors). Please
also
make sure all images are your own, open source, or credited to the
creator.
- Documents
must be sent in .doc, .docx, .rtf,
or
.odt format – we can’t use .pdf files.
- Please
use single spacing with breaks
between
paragraphs, and Times New Roman 12 point. Fancy fonts may not be
possible to
reproduce if the zine editor doesn’t have access to those fonts.
- If
you use footnotes, please do not
insert them into the body of your story. Simply note it with a
superscript
number (which can be done by highlighting the number and under Font,
select the
superscript checkbox) because otherwise one story’s footnotes can
interfere
with those in subsequent stories, and this causes much wailing and
gnashing of
teeth for zine editors. Any questions on this, please ask.
Art:
- The
more art, the better! After all, how
could
we ever get tired of looking at our favorite characters?
- The
higher the resolution of art, the nicer
it
will print. Very large files can be shared via dropbox, etc.
- Since
this will be a digital zine, it’s
ideal
for color images!
- Ask
if you need help with anything technical.
All submissions should be sent to Laura Goist at ok_good_ok_fine@yahoo.com.
Just ask if you have any questions at all!
Happy creating!!
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