Questions

What is a zine?
A fanzine, or zine, generally refers to an unofficial collection of works based on a theme or character. It can contain a mix of writing, art, merch, and any other kind of content created by contributors!

What is the theme of the zine?
The only theme is celebrating love for Sugawara Koushi.

Will this zine be physical or digital?
This zine will be entirely digital. The mods are in discussion of including webzine distribution as well as the downloadable pdf, though we cannot make promises at this time.

Will the zine be for charity or for profit?
This zine will be free, neither for profit or charity.

Is the zine SFW?
This zine will be entirely SFW, but we will require contributors to be 16+ by the time of their application.

Will there be manga spoilers?
There may be as contributors can choose to work within canonverse or not. However, all work will be tagged in the zine so people know what to expect.

Will minors be able to contribute?
People aged 16 years old and above can contribute.

How will this zine accept entries?
We will be having an open call for contributors shortly after the interest check period.

Will there really be no contributor rejections for this zine?
We will be accepting all contributors during the sign-up period. Please stay tuned for updates on the application process on our Twitter account.

Will ships and/or AUs be allowed?
Both ships and AUs will be allowed as long as they do not break any guidelines

Any other questions? Ask us below! Our replies can be found under the "Other Answers" tab of this page.

I haven't submitted to a zine before and wanted to ask what the pitches submission is? I wanted to submit a poem but didn't know if the "pitches submission" means I would need to write a different poem then what I plan to submit? – C. M.
Hi! For our zine, we'll be giving a lot of freedom to the contributors. Pitches are basically what you're interested in doing for your piece. For example, "character study on Suga's path to becoming a teacher" or "Suga and Akaashi going shopping together" or "daisuga smooching on the beach". It's mostly for us to get a general sense of what people are interested in submitting. We may guide people who want to submit multiple pitches just for better distribution of ship/gen content for the zine, but if you already had a specific idea in mind for your piece, you could just submit that pitch, and you'd be good to go! We'll also be pretty relaxed about pitches, so contributors are free to change up their submission anytime, and you won't be locked into your pitch if it doesn't work out!

Since this zine is entirely digital, would it be possible to submit animations? (Not full videos, but maybe a gif?) – Y.
Thank you for the question! We want to let you know we are looking into it now on whether or not we will be able to compile gifs into the downloadable pdf and retain their quality and video-ness. We will update this answer and post to our Twitter when we have the answer!

Hi! Do you allow OC x Canon and/or x Reader content? – anon
For our zine we are going to keep it just within Haikyuu!! canon characters.

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