Get DUM or Get LOST.
DUM DUM Zine has always changed form when contemplating a print issue. Our first issue was a single broadside sheet, the second an audio compilation, and the third a box set of more than thirty contributors that made objects and story live together in unbound harmony.
We began this issue by taking discarded books donated by The Last Bookstore and delivering them to Grand Park’s Little Libraries. By giving them a chance to continue telling their story, they will continue making new ones. An object is impressionable; it carries with it the owner, the past, the possible future.
For our fourth issue, we’ve collected an array of “lost” or discarded objects from free bins, lost and founds, and other public places in Los Angeles. This time, we’d like to turn objects themselves into prompts for our issue submissions: objects as a catalyst for story, action, thought and fiction. The selected narratives will be perfect bound, in the form of a book, in Issue No. 4: Lost & BOUND.
We ask that you write, create or design a narrative for a single object of your choosing from our pool of 16 objects. The narrative can be new, continued, past or present. Feel free to get weird and as “out of bounds” as you want with your story so long as it alludes or relates to your found object image.
We are accepting submissions in the following categories:
- poetry
- fiction
- hybrid forms
- flash fiction
- interviews
- news stories
- visual criticism
- collage
- video/audio files (if you can sell it to us)
Parameters: Prose writers, please limit word submissions to 800 words.
Questions about submissions? Email info [at] dumdumzine [dot] com.