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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 come from and speak about LGBTQ+ people, communities, and culture in an intentional way; including all people under the LGBTQ+ umbrella and their supporters. While centering queer Ohioan creators voices.
Who Can Submit?
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Anyone can submit up to 2 creations (Text Creation and/or Visual Art Creation)
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Visual Art submissions will have the OPTION to be considered for the Cover Art Competition
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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 submission as the cover art for the year it was submitted if selected.
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Publication in gINKgo is under a first come, first serve basis for consideration for inclusion into the zine
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The cost for submission is… FREE!
Guidelines
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Submissions must be original, non-AI generated, and have been created by the person submitting them for publication
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All creators must own the rights to their submissions
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Simultaneous submissions are allowed
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Prior publication may interfere with rights to submissions, depending on where the creation was previously published
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All submissions will be reviewed by WQC for inclusion into gINKgo. If there is hateful speech or sensitive topics include a 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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Formating
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Maximum of one page per visual art submission
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Maximum of 750 words or three pages of writing 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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*There will be no monetary transaction for the publication of submitted pieces