Breakthrough at the Lit Lab Presents:
Concoctions
Submission Guidelines
About our Zine
We aim to put together a zine every six months to showcase our community members' talents.
For each zine, the theme will be determined by vote in the community discord server.
The current theme is: PRIDE
Accepted submission styles and mediums
Notes:
Reprints are welcome, especially if originally self-published. If traditionally published, please make sure you have the rights to your work before submitting it.
Each member may share up to one of each of the submission types per quarter: written work, audio/video, and artwork/photography.
Submissions must be somehow related to the quarterly theme. We welcome as many interpretations as possible.
Please include any content warnings alongside your submission as necessary.
**All fan fiction submissions will be required to include the title of the piece from which the submission is inspired.
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Short stories
Poetry
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Essays
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Memoir
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Music/audio
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Video
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Artwork
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Comics
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Photography
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Excerpts from longer work
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Fan fiction * *
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Anything else!
Specific Medium Guidelines
Written work
1. You may submit one prose piece (short story, essay, memoir) and up to 3 poems (or 9 haiku). Please submit each piece separately.
2. No longer than 10,000 words. There is no minimum amount.
3. For fan fiction, it is required to include the title of the work from which the submission is inspired.
4. Submission document should include: publishing name, discord name, word count, submission title, and any applicable content warnings.
Audio and Video
1. Only one submission per quarter. (If you have submitted written work, you may still submit a audio/video piece)
2. Submission should total up to no longer than 20 minutes.
3. Submission should be able to embed on our site from a separate site or app, such as Spotify or YouTube.
Artwork
Including photography and comics
1. Only one submission allowed per quarter. (If you have submitted written work, you may still submit visual work)
2. No more than 10 images/pages of work.
3. For fan art, it is required to include the title of the work from which the submission is inspired.
Terms and Conditions
We cannot offer payment for legal reasons, as we do accept and publish fanworks.
Creators retain the rights to their work and may submit and republish work featured in the zine on their own websites or in other venues (note that submitting any work appearing in the zine elsewhere will have to be submitted as a reprint).
Editor may request alterations made to the submission before publication.
*Your piece will be rejected if:
You are not a part of the Breakthrough at the Lit Lab discord server.
Your submission promotes hate towards any group of people and/or breaks any of the server’s rules.
Your submission is incomplete (you will be asked to revise and resubmit).
Your submission is in no way connected to this quarter’s theme.
Your submission was created with AI.
Your submission is plagiarized.