Submission Guidelines

By submitting, you affirm your work is:

  1. Original
  2. Created by you
  3. Legal to submit for public dissemination

Types of Work Accepted

Text: Fiction, Poetry, Creative Non-Fiction and Essay, Memoir
Visual: Photography, Graphic Art, Video
Audio: Music, Ambient, Vocal Performance
New Media: Hell, surprise us!

Formats

NO AI GENERATED CONTENT. WE DO NOT WANT ROBOT GENERATED SLOP.

Text: We love Markdown format. Otherwise, MSWord, RTF, or PDF. Max word counts: 1000 or 3 short-to-medium poems.
Visual: Most image formats are ok, we will convert if necessary. The higher the image quality the better
Video: Common phone and Video formats are fine, YouTube, Vimeo links with time markers are ok as long as embedded permissions are given. Try to keep below 6 minutes if possible. Some exceptions may apply.
Audio: WAV or .mp3. 1 - 3 mins in length please. Some exceptions may apply.

The OrphanAge is a Zine with a rough-n-tumble aesthetic that aspires to share the weird, the disenfranchised, and the finest in new art and cultural criticism. We are okay with edgy and we prefer boundary pushing. After all, we believe that nothing makes art shine quite like spit. With that being said, we will not accept screeds against race, sexuality, or gender, etc, and any invective needs to be reasoned and clever. Do not waste our time with soft skull bigotry.

Our take on art is similar to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling[1] on hardcore pornography. We will know it when we see it. So we invite you to shock us, mock us, make us laugh, cry, shit and piss. With your art, we will celebrate what it means to be human.

The OrphanAge is a curated Zine and submission does not guarantee publication. You and you alone are legally responsible for any work you submit, and you wholly absolve The OrphanAGE and its staff from any and all legal responsibility for your work.

  1. Jacob Ellis v. Ohio 378 U.S. 184 (1964) ↩︎

Send Submissions to: submissions@theorphan-age.com