News and Updates
⯌ June 28th, 2024
Unfortunately we still didn't reach the target goal for submissions for the 2nd issue, for the time being applications will stay open perpetually until we reach a good number to publish the 2nd issue with, when we do reach that threshold there will be an announcement that submissions will close for the 2nd issue at a designated time.
In the meantime we'll do more work to create reasources here on our site, possibly set up a forum to facilitate collaborations, and look for other means of advertising our project.
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⯌ May 6th, 2024
We'll be extending our submission window to June 17th to give folks more time to apply to our second issue, we've received some emails from folks mentioning their desire to participate and given low turn out for this applications on this current issue we figured it was fine to extend the deadline. We'll update our Apply page to reflect this, this also means the 2nd issue will be postponed to July.
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⯌ April 14th, 2024
We'll be extending our submission window to May 17th given that we have not received enough submissions yet for our 2nd issue. We'll update our Apply page to reflect this, this also means the 2nd issue will be postponed to June.
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⯌ March 31st, 2024
We've haven't received very many submissions this cycle, in the event that we hit April 17th and don't have enough submissions for the zine's 2nd issue, we'll push the submissions deadline back another month the May the 17th. With that said, we really encourage folks to talk about us where they can and we really encourage anyone eligible to apply.
We're considering making a forum and a proper mailing list for the zine so that people can more easily get news about the zine and we can build a community. We considered making a discord server but felt that that was too exclusive and put too much pressure on people to join, a forum may be a bit better because it would allow people to lurk and get a feel for whatever community we build from a comfortable distance. I may even get the mailing list up later today.
P.S. A new mailing list form has been made!
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⯌ March 6th, 2024
Our first issue is live on our itch.io!. Thank you so much for everyone who made this possible! I'm exciting for what this project becomes moving forward! I'll be updating this site to reflect all the new content :)))
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⯌ March 5th, 2024
Our first issue will be publishing to Itch.io tomorrow! It took a little while to make sure that everything was in order, but still on time. In the future we'd like to make sure that our issues come out on within the first week of the month. :))
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⯌ February 18th, 2024
Submissions for March are closed and now submissions for May are open! Submissions for May will close on April 17th!
We urge artists applying for May who want to be featured on our next cover to submit some time during March for consideration, just make sure to mention that you'd like to be considered for the cover! We'd like to announce our next cover some time at the beginning of April. I'll soon include a loose outline for cover specifications.
We'll have one or two more updates as we get closer to publishing our first issue to Itch.io!
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⯌ January 31st, 2024
We've got a new tab for different kinds of creative clubs! We're slowly populating the tab as we create entries and join up with them. We're taking steps to participate in these cool clubs because we'd love to do our part to highlight other creative projects and find ways to connect with the community!
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⯌ January 26th, 2024
First off, I'd love to thank everyone who has applied thus far! I hope to see more as we head into February :)))
We've even got a new stamp available in our links and freebies!
Spent the last month doing some promotion in various places, a little bit on Tumblr and Twitter and I just placed a couple of community banner ads in our footer with plans to have an ad for our project to run on them too. One of our big mission with this zine is to just get more eyes on people's work so I thought these banners were a great way to get more eyes on other people too!
Here's our promo image and what our first issue is gonna look like. :))
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⯌ December 22nd, 2023
Added some new wallpapers and button templates to the freebies section. Still working on the best way to display important zine dates, should hopefully have something ready soon. I'm also working on the first issue cover, in the future cover submission will be open to everyone and I hope to even have covers that correspond to featured stories!
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⯌ December 18th, 2023
Updated the applications page to display the first deadline, in the future we'll add a calendar for dates. Updated our FAQ to address whether we accepted work that has already been created (we do!). More updates soon, thank you for all those who have already applied!
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⯌ December 13th, 2023
Our site is still going to go through various waves of construction but I'm happy to announce that our applications are open! Head to our applications or FAQ to reach out to us. We expect to have our first issue published to itch.io in March 2024. Further updates will be featured here!
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⯌ December 12th, 2023
Construction on our Neocities and Itch.io are still under way but we hope to have applications open soon. For those lucky enough to stumble upon us early, Over the Top Stories is a free bi-monthly digital science-fiction zine. Check out our about section for more info!
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