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Welcome to the Secret Places submissions portal!

If you're here, Joel has likely pressured you into being here; if not, welcome! Relax a bit. Learn. We're here to gather submissions for a zine.

What are we looking for? In short, work that reveals a secret place in you. Art you’ve already made for no one but yourself. Sontag wrote about the “innocence of art unjustified”—God, what a phrase—and we’re here to explore that innocence. Bring us work that excites you, but also: bring us your cringe, your melodramatic, your messy, your honest. If part of you doesn’t want to submit it, or doesn’t think we’ll accept, that likely means it’s what we’re looking for. (If Joel had to confront his own perfectionism to do this, so do you.)

So what does that actually look like? We’d love to publish your handwritten and/or handmade work.

For writing, this might look like:

-diary entries

-journals

-prayer journals (bonus points for vulnerability)

-postcards

-annotations from books

-letters

-grocery lists

-bathroom-stall graffiti (which of course we mostly don’t condone defacing things that aren’t yours. But, let’s be real, it would be kinda sick)

For art, it might be:

-sketchbook pages

-collages

-Textile art (quilts, clothing, weaving, etc.)

-Sculpture? Ceramics? Who knows! The world is your oyster.

(You'll find the submissions portal at the bottom of this blog, our second-to-last post.)

For our writers, we also ask that alongside a hi-res scan or photo of the handwritten work (with the background not visible, please), you also attach a typed transcription of the work in .docx form.

In this, you have the chance to add whatever footnotes [in brackets] you might think are essential to the piece. Give us context, fix misspelled words, add to the world of the piece. Or don’t. Up to you.

ANY questions, comments, or concerns at all, hit us up at secretplaceszine@gmail.com.

Otherwise, scroll through the gallery below for some help brainstorming and examples of what it might look like! Thanks in advance, and we can’t wait to see what you have.

Now go down and explore!!

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Sketchbook Spread 1 / Aislinn Burley

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Postcard / Unknown Writer

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1/19/21 / Joel Lee

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Annotations for Kincaid's "Wingless" / Is Literature Holy? / Joel Lee, Jamaica Kincaid

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Call Me / Myles Harris

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Discovering God in the physical world  /  Joel Lee

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Voiding  / Aislinn Burley

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Now it’s your turn!!!

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You’ve been had. Now scroll up and SUBMIT