A friendly reminder to you writers, artists, activists, and generally awesome folks that the mental health zine submission deadline is just over a week away! November 15th is the (somewhat flexible) deadline. We would still love for more submissions! So get workin’ on it and/or encourage any of your friends who may be interested.

As a reminder this is what the zine’s about:

The mental health zine is a compliation on experiences of resisting the stigma of mental health/illness. This includes any aspect relating to mental health, including experiences with illness, coping, psychology/psychiatry, mental health institutions, as well as everyday life. We’re especially interested in work that explores topics of politics, identity, speaking out, supporting people, intersections with other oppressions, as well as general areas of agency, power and resistance. Submissions can be in the form of personal stories, essays, poetry, art, photography, or whatever else you fancy.

All submissions will be kept confidential unless you specify a desire to have your name included. We will thoroughly consider everything submitted and we will respond to all of you. However, the zine strives to be as anti-oppressive as possible, so submissions with racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, xenophobic or classist content will not be printed.

If you would like to like submit a piece or want to find out more about what we’re doing, feel free to send us an e-mail at mentalhealthzine@gmail.com If you can’t e-mail your submission to us, let us know and we will sort out other arrangements.

Also, some additional information. The zine format is going to be half of a standard size of paper (8.5″ X 11″) folded in half lengthwise. So about half of a standard size page. This is what most zines hanging around look like these days. It will also be in black and white due to printing costs.

Anyway we look forward to seeing all of your work! Thanks again!