Halloween in a zine. A candle flickering inside a jack’o’lantern. Fall semester midterms at Hogwarts. Campfire ghost stories with a flashlight under your chin. Trick-or-treating in a cul-de-sac with ET pretending to be your sister. Gomez and Morticia on a date like Lady and the Tramp. Frankenstein with a pet cat. Charlie Brown and the Great Pumpkin.
(1) Must be printable—consider it a challenge, not a limitation. If you want to submit a gif or video, we can screenshot it like a comic strip. Or an alien audio recording? We’ll figure something out.
(2) Must be human-made. We love a good sci-fi storyline, but we’re going to leave Artificial Intelligence out of this project! Feel free to use it as a tool, but keep submissions human.
Ideas... ghost stories, spooky poems, an op-ed on the existance of aliens (please also submit visual proof, tysm), eerie song lyrics, unsent letters, spell lists, odd oil painting portraits, ghost paintings on photos like Pheobe Bridges albums, black and white collage, monster memes, costume decision making matrix, candy haul rankings, how to carve a pumpkin, the best pumpkin pie recipe, best of horror movie reviews, a movie quote, what greeting you would say if you were a ghost.
Are you in? Send a message to Elizabeth or Shanna to let us know! We’ll follow up the week before with a reminder. Submissions due by 10.25.25, link below!
Want to request illustration for your idea? Give Elizabeth a heads up and include direction with your submission.
What happens after? The zine will be sent digitally on Halloween Day, with print issues following in early November!