Alert Nerd 'Zine: Call for Submissions!

Alert Nerd 'Zine: Call for Submissions!

Jan 15

Dear Gentle Readers,
We are reaching out to you, hoping that you will want to contribute to our latest undertaking…Alert Nerd: The Magazine. We’re putting together a little ‘zine, to be published quarterly. It will be published on this here site as a PDF, which you will be able to print out and tote wherever you so desire. We’re also looking into doing small print runs of each issue — more on that as it develops.

So what will the content of said ‘zine look like? Here’s our basic mission statement: we want an electronic magazine dedicated to sharing stories, examinations, and opinions of geek culture. That means stuff like fun essays, fiction and the like focusing on the nerd experience.
Also, we’re giving each issue a loose, easily expounded upon theme. The first one?

Pon farr.

Come on, you know you can do something with that. (And for the record, it doesn’t have to be specifically Star Trek-y. You can take it wherever you want.)

Here’s a sampling of some of our own story pitches around this theme to give you an idea of what we’re looking for:

Geeky Love: A Short History of Long Shot Convention Affairs
The Top Five Slash Fic Pairings I Never Wanted to Know About
Saavik 1 vs. Saavik 2: Who’s the Hotter Vulcan?
Sleeping with the Enemy: Living with a Non-Geek
Geek Wedding Stories

So what’s next? Well, if you’ve got something you want to write, drop a line to fangirl@earthlink.net. We’ll pool these ideas together and let you know if it’s a go (this is mostly just to make sure we don’t end up with a bunch of same-y articles/stories). Copy deadline is Feb. 15. Our glorious first issue will come out in early March.

As this is an old skool-type ‘zine, we can only pay you in gratitude, Doritos and really old comic books (“Great Lakes Avengers” back issues, anyone?).

So sound off! Let us know if you want to be part of the GREATEST THING TO EVER HIT THE INTERNETS.