please don’t skip this it’s not a joke!!
anything’s a temple if you try hard enough
Hello 3-D creatures!! I’m still thinking about Larissa’s 4-D hypercube poem / printable DICE GAME 🎲🎲 from last week. In true fashion of us riffing off each other chaotically, I’ve decided to push my work into a groundbreaking new medium, as inspired by these Tik Toks.
Also, scroll to the bottom of this newsletter for more information about our 💫 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 💫 that will open on Wednesday, Feb 1st next week!!
please don’t skip this it’s not a joke!!
➡️ watch actual TikTok here ⬅️ (open on your phone)
Information on PTK Open Call for Submissions! 💫
PTK will officially be open for submissions next week, from 1 Feb - 28 Feb, 2023!!
Be sure to check your email inbox or our instagram next Wednesday for the opening announcement, which will contain the link to the form for you to submit.
We will have a reading cap on this round of submissions (i.e. it will be first come, first serve until we reach our max # of submissions), so we wanted to share some info with you now on what the guidelines will be & you can start preparing your work!
✅ Submissions Guidelines:
We will accept any medium of work that can be published in a digital newsletter - i.e. poetry, art, audio, essays, erotic fiction, custom GIFs, music, short stories, etc. (Substack currently does not allow you to upload videos to the newsletters, but if your work can be connected to a YouTube link or something like that, we’d be happy to consider video as well!)
We're going to keep it simple and only allow one submission per person, & one piece of work per submission (so send us your absolute best piece!)
Right now, we're only able to accept work submitted to us in English.
Don't put your name or any identifying material on the file you plan to upload - we will be reading everything blind.
Aside from keeping things legible, there is no specific formatting criteria. Please try to keep written work under 3 pages, and any audio/video work under 10 minutes long. Remember that we're looking for pieces to highlight in an email newsletter, so we likely won't be publishing your entire novel or short film this round - but don't quote us on that!
We're also cool with collaborative work, just let us know if it's from more than one person.
Submissions can be simultaneous, and can be previously published (just let us know if we need to credit the original publisher).
If you get selected for publication on PTK, we won't "own" the first rights to your work (like most publications do). We don't believe in owning anyone's creative work for any amount of time. This means if your same work gets republished elsewhere in the future, we don’t require you to credit us as the original publisher. You can if you want to, but you do you. Fly like a bird, babies. Either way, all copy and publication rights of the work will remain yours.
Submissions that don't follow these guidelines won't be read or responded to (sorry not sorry).
✅ OTHER INFO:
For full transparency, this is our first time opening up PTK for submissions, so we're not sure yet how long it's going to take Larissa and Kelly to read everything, narrow it down, and get back to all of you on our decisions.
Either way, if we accept your work for publication, or, if we don’t, you will hear back from us via email at an undecided time in the future.
We're also not sure yet what the exact form of publishing these submissions will take on PTK. Perhaps we will feature one artist per newsletter, perhaps some great themes will emerge and we'll feature multiple artists' work in one email. Larissa and Kelly might pop in and respond to your work. WHO KNOWS!! All we know is that it will be cool and it will be sent in this email newsletter (and probably highlighted on our instagram).
Alright, start reaching into your trapper keepers!! We want to see your whackiest work next week. 💘