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Submissions to The Future Echoes are open! You may click the button below to submit your page. For answers to the most commonly asked questions about submitting pages to the archive, visit our FAQ document. Please read the Submission Criteria thoroughly before you begin the process. The deadline dates are listed below.
This Quarter’s Prompt:
Got my own mind
I want to make my own decisions
When it has to do with my life, my life
I wanna be the one in control
— Control by Janet Jackston
Your body is yours, but lawmakers are trying to control how we speak, move, and exist in our bodies by restricting or eliminating gender affirming care, abortion access, and our sacred freedom of speech. Now, more than ever, we want to hear and see what bodily autonomy means to you. We know freedom doesn’t disappear under political pressure. In this zine anthology, we want submissions that strive to answer the following:
- What does freedom mean to you as others try to infringe upon your autonomy?
- Can a body be free when it isn’t safe?
- How can you live boundlessly in a world that tries to define you?
- How is freedom showing up as you care for yourself and others?
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about submissions
The Future Echoes will release a prompt during the submission period. We hope this prompt inspires and guides your zine-making through reflection on current systemic and institutional issues facing the United States.
We are looking for zine pages that reflect young people's feelings, perspectives, and experiences about institutional and ideological issues that affect them. We encourage submissions that intersect with ACLU issue areas.
Submissions must be 8.5" x 5.5" or one-half of a US letter-sized page, folded hamburger style. They can be multimedia, including written pieces, artwork, photography, and more.
If you find yourself having trouble making a zine page, check out our zine-making toolkit! It has tons of resources, including a guide to help you brainstorm ideas and a helpful list of existing zine archives to spur your creative process.
submission FAQs
Learn more about The Future Echoes: A Zine Anthology submission criteria, status and eligibility, and more.
volume 1 entry dates & deadlines
Quarter 1
Quarter 2
Quarters 3 and 4
submissions open
Sept. 16
Feb 10
Jun 9
All deadlines end at 11:59pm ET.
submissions close
Dec. 2
May 12
Dec 15
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