Submit to Antenna today! Submissions are currently: OPEN

Submissions for Volume 2 close 05/17/2026!

Antenna (2025 - ???) is a collaborative zine situated within the niche subculture of denpa (a loosely defined aesthetic and thematic category associated with psychological unease, dissociation, and fragmented perception). As a self-published, community-driven work, Antenna exemplifies the long-standing tradition of zines as alternative publishing spaces that privilege experimentation, subcultural identity, and personal expression over formal cohesion or commercial viability.

Across its pages, contributors engage with recurring motifs such as isolation, obsession, and the instability of perception. These themes are not presented linearly or analytically but emerge through fragmented texts and disjointed imagery. As a result, the reader experiences denpa not as a concept to be understood, but as a state to be inhabited.

Thank you for your interest in submitting work to Antenna. Currently, anyone 18 years old or older can participate.

- Creative writing (fiction, poetry)

- Writing (diary entries, interviews, analysis/meta, articles)

- Artwork (digital, traditional, comics, collage, graphic design, pixel art, handmade crafts, etc.)

- Photography (original, transformative, digital, collage)

- Cosplay and fashion (character cosplay, street snaps, style guides, tutorials, itabags)

- Collections (figures, manga, media, digital hoards, other goods)

- Anything denpa or denpa-adjacent

- Horror (psychological, spiritual, supernatural)

- Clutter (collections, shrines, electronics, bedrooms, workspaces)

- Technology (digital hoards, server rooms, personal sites)

- Reviews (media, tech, music, activities)

- How denpa impacts your self-expression

Allowed: Artistic nudity, sexual content, and violence

Not allowed: Explicit pornography, hate speech

Submission Types

Creative Writing:

Word count min: None

Word count max: 500 - 800 (can be flexible depending on the number of submissions and available page space)

File formats: .DOCX, .TXT, .PDF

If you choose to submit through email text, please ensure the formatting is correct.

Writing:

Word count min: None

Word count max: 2000 (hard limit)

File formats: .DOCX, .TXT, .PDF

If you choose to submit through email text, please ensure the formatting is correct.

Artwork and Photographs:

Page dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 inches (1500 x 2400 pixels), 300 DPI

Color: (CMYK strongly preferred) or black and white

You can submit RBG works at your own discretion; we will have to convert it to CMYK for printing, which will change the colors.

File formats: .TIFF (strongly preferred), .PNG

Please email submissions to denpaarchivist@gmail.com. Attach your submission directly to the email. Please do not send a link through a file sharing service such as Dropbox or Google Drive.

Required: Name (of your choosing)

Optional: Website OR one social media handle

Optional: A short bio about yourself / your work, whatever you want to share (280 characters max)

Unfortunately not. All issues will be released for free in .PDF format. Physical copies will be available on a print-on-demand basis at a break-even cost of $5.00 USD. You can pre-order a copy of issue one here!

In the interest of maximizing included submissions and page space, I'm keeping the word count small (since non-fiction, reviews, interviews, poetry, etc. have historically had significantly lower word counts than creative writing submissions).

Please only submit comics that are four pages maximum.

All graphic design is handled by the editors. If you want your artwork or photo to take up an entire page, please follow the aforementioned page dimensions.

It's your work. Do with it whatever you please! :-)