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gINKgo Zine
Empowering LGBTQ+ community members and allies through visual art and writing.
Purpose
Printed each summer with soft rolling deadlines for submissions year round
Westerville Queer Collective's gINKgo is a community zine that features LGBTQ+ community members and allies. Centered around their written and visual creations that uplift and empower the realities of LGBTQ+ people and their stories.
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Its first publication launched in 2025 with each following volume being released annually each summer.
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gINKgo's purpose is to empower and lift voices who speak for and about LGBTQ+ people, communities and culture in an intentional way; including all people under the LGBTQ+ umbrella and their supporters.
Who Can Submit?
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No age requirement or limit
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Anyone can submit up to 2 creations (Text Creation, Visual Art Creation, and/or Mixed Media Creation)
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Visual Art submissions will have the OPTION to be considered for the Cover Art Competition
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The Cover Art Competition is a chance for Visual Art submissions to be considered for being featured as the cover on the gINKgo zine; this does not remove the submission from consideration for inclusion in the zine itself
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By indicating you would like to include a submission for consideration for the Cover Art Competition, that is giving WQC permission to use that specific submission as the cover art for the year it was submitted
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There is no additional ‘prize’ other than the artwork being featured as the cover for the zine
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Westerville Queer Collective Board Members CANNOT submit for Cover Art Competition
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Publication in gINKgo is under a first come, first serve basis for inclusion into the zine
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Cost for submission is… FREE!
Guidelines
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Submission must be original, non-AI generated, and have been created by the person submitting them for publication
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Submitting plagiarized work will result in the submission being removed from consideration for gINKgo
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All creators must own the rights to their submissions
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Submitted creations should not have been previously published
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This does NOT include publication via social media posts as long as the creator has the rights to the submitted creations
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Limitation: All submissions will be reviewed by WQC for inclusion into gINKgo. If there is hateful speech or sensitive topics include content warning BEFORE the piece
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Don't feel the need to censor your words; however, any submission containing language that belittles or degrades members of a marginalized community will be subject to disqualification upon review
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Some themes included in the umbrella of this limitations are: themes of domestic violence, sexual violence, and self-harm, any and all graphic depictions of violence, as well as slurs (This list is non-exhaustive)
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If the piece is deemed unfit for gINKgo, the creator will be contacted and their submission will be withdrawn
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Formating
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On 8.5x11 Inch with 1-Inch margins PDF documents for all visual submissions and Word documents for all text submissions
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Note: All creations will not be editable following submission, please double-check your work for any necessary edits before submitting
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All submission files should be named in the following format “Author/Artist Name_Title”
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Easy-to-Read black text on white background for Text Submissions, smallest font at 12 pt, double spaced; Recommended font: Helvetica
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White border around Visual Art and Mixed Media submissions
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Maximum of two pages (one-sided pages) per submission
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Pieces must include the following information:
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Title of the creation or “Untitled”
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Creator’s name, pen name, pseudonym, or “Anonymous”
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This information should be listed at the top of Text Creations and at the bottom of Visual Art and Mixed Media Creations​​
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*We might edit text submissions to better fit the style guide or for readability/accessibility. Format will attempt to be kept the same for poetry and in cases where spacing is intentional
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**There will be no monetary transaction for the publication of submitted pieces