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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:
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
Catastrophe continues to fundamentally change our world: from the ongoing genocides in Sudan, escalating violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the war in Ukraine, and the declared ceasefire in Gaza to the increasingly apparent effects of global warming as evidenced in the Los Angeles fires and Hurricane Helene’s impacts in here in North Carolina—we have collectively experienced lifetimes of crisis within the last year alone.
We continue to approach the zenith of undemocratic power grabs across the country, with examples like the overturning of Roe v. Wade and threats to birthright citizenship at the federal level, as well as the passing of both the anti-democracy bill S382 and the bill that forces sheriffs to cooperate with ICE, aka H10, at the local level.
With these attacks on our rights to live, it’s easy to lose hope and descend into defeatism, but losing hope is not an option; We have no choice but to seize hope to learn, grow, and protect the right to live as we want. We have no choice but to resist.
Fortunately, there are many ways to resist; we’re already strategizing in the courts, in the legislature, and on the streets to push back against anti-democratic efforts and educating the public about bad actors trying to take away our civil rights and liberties. We think our ongoing zine project is another way to take back power and agency through art advocacy. Art advocacy is a low-cost and effective way to express yourself and connect with other like-minded people. We encourage you to make your zine page with friends, family, or classmates, and if you feel stuck or lost while creating, we have a helpful toolkit to help guide your creative process.
In addition to contributing to our zine project, we urge you to consider:
Volunteering at organizations that advocate for your rights, like the ACLU of North Carolina, Planned Parenthood, Siembra NC, and the Climate Justice Alliance.
However you choose to act, it’s important to remember that there is strength in numbers; the biggest threat to authoritarianism is the collective power of an informed, engaged, and organized public.
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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
Quarter 3
Quarter 4
submissions open
Sept. 16
Feb 10
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All deadlines end at 11:59pm ET.
submissions close
Dec. 2
May 5
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