WOOLF PACK IS OPENING SUBMISSIONS FOR OUR NINTH ISSUE (TO BE RELEASED IN AUGUST 2017). ARE YOU A FEMME OR NON-BINARY WRITER/ARTIST IN AUSTRALIA? SEND YOUR COOL SHIT TO [email protected] BY 2nd JULY 2017
What kind of stuff should we send you?
Essays! Rants! Fiction! Illustrations! Photo Essays! Comics! Recipes! Mixed Media! Collage! Poetry! How-tos! Anything realistically printable in a zine! If you havenāt seen the zine before, you can get at all the old issues in the sidebar and check out what we do.
Can I send you something Iāve already put on my tumblr/blog/own zine/an assignment etc?
You sure can! Basically anything thatās your original work, but make sure any previous publications sign off on it (we do not have lawyers)
How big/long/what size/what format should submissions be in?
When you submit, please give your name as youād like it published and a title for your piece!
Text stuff: Please send submissions of any kind, preferably under 3000 words. We take .doc files, and we edit using track changes.
Image goodness: We prefer 300dpi - 1748 x 2480px for A5, 2480 x 3508px for A4. We print in full colour, but this is a print-at-home zine meaning that colour quality is mid-fidelity, so please keep this in mind.
.png or .tiff preferred and .jpg is cool too. If you donāt know what any of this means thatās fine too, weāll try our best to help you figure it out, thereās lots of space to negotiate so donāt let the above deter you!
Language! Nudity! Adult themes! General insurrection! Discussions of Real Shit! Being completely independent means we can publish pretty much whatevs we want.
If your piece involves the use of slurs, we may asterisk them up. If youāre commenting on the slurs meaningfully and in good faith, thatās probably going to be fine. If youāre using slurs to be totes edgy and rustle jimmies, weāll probably be bored with it.
We may ask you to put content warnings in text pieces (weāve generally used them in-text if something super gnarly is coming up), or insert our own. Content warnings are important because theyāre the very definition of classification over censorship, and we want the freedom to discuss anything that affects us, like assault or mental illness, and give people the heads up they need when going into a topic thatās tough for them. We will not publish pieces about how content warnings are wimpy and indulgent and are ruining academia, becauseā¦ theyāre not.
I have an idea, but Iām not sure what to do with it!
Shoot us an email, and one of the editors can talk it over with you. But give yourself lots of time!
What happens if youād like to publish my thing?
Hooray! One of us will be in touch (Talia for visual pieces, Rebecca for anything with words) to edit your piece and make sure weāre both happy with it. We edit/give feedback on/workshop all of our stuff until both we and the artist are happy with it, so get ready to furiously draft. We will definitely be using track changes in Word for text pieces.
We also work with a tight set of deadlines, as we are all doomed students and this is our version of taking a vacation; so be ready to edit like the wind!
Why didnāt I make it into this issue?
Like we said, this is a fly-by-night self-printing operation, so we can only publish so much. Everyone will hear back individually from us either way, so you may get some feedback, notification that Iām holding the piece over for the next issue (with your permission), or a friendly āsubmit next issue!ā
We now actually do: we pay $20 per piece. Weāre self-funded, but we do charge for the zines- and our artists work hard. A āpieceā for the purposes of payment will be anything that would come under a single heading in our contents page, and will probably be negotiated individually; itāll be paid shortly after we launch.
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