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An Imperial Radch Fanzine Interest Form

Please click here to access the form to indicate your interest in submitting to the 10th anniversary Imperial Radch zine.

Due to Life, this form is releasing about one month late. Apologies for this, the brain has been quite uncooperative.

On the other hand, Translation State is out!! This is so exciting!!!!!!!!

On the third hand, please click below for the Google form to indicate your interest. The submission guidelines and general summary are in the form, and you can also read them below.

The year 2023 marks the 10th anniversary of the publication of Ann Leckie's debut novel, Ancillary Justice, as well as the publication of her new novel in the Radch universe, Translation State. In anticipation of this anniversary, we wish to release a fanmade zine to celebrate all of Leckie's work in this universe - the Imperial Radch trilogy, Provenance, and Translation State. The zine is expecting to accept submissions until Aug. 15, barring unforeseen circumstances. This form is an interest check to determine logistics for zine publication. The zine Tumblr will post a submissions form shortly - currently planned around June 15. Any zine-related questions should be directed to ancillaryzine@gmail[.]com or Ro2SID.tumblr.com for zine-related matters. If you have received no reply in about 48 hours, please contact me directly at sauronthegreat@gmail[.]com (yes, really), or tree#0597 on Discord. Please note that I am not in a North American time zone, which will affect response times. As Discord is rolling out changes to its name system, the best way to get in touch with me on that platform is on the fan-run discord server for Ann Leckie's work, Radchdome 3.0, the link to which can be found here: https://discord.gg/WAF8uv9f3k. My display name on that server will be tree. Submission Guidelines: The 10th anniversary zine will be a celebration of the Imperial Radch trilogy and its standalone sequels. The key criteria for submissions are appreciation and affection for the original work. These do not need to be uncritical, and respectful critiques of the work are important and welcome. This does not mean that the zine will not accept shitposts. It only means that the zine will not accept submissions that are apathetic to the original work. If you would like to submit a series of poems about how Breq is like a duck, we look forward to it.

The zine editor(s) are not currently equipped to handle certain topics due to their sensitive nature. These include sexual assault, child abuse, and suicide/suicidal ideation. Unfortunately this is not an extensive list of sensitive topics we will not be able to handle, but it is our best attempt based on our editor(s) boundaries. 

The original work deals with sensitive themes, some of which appear in our list and we do not wish to discourage exploration of them. Submissions that deal with these topics will not be rejected out-of-hand, but instead will be dealt with care. The zine welcomes NSFW work under the same guidelines.

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An Imperial Radch Fanzine

October 1st 2023 will mark ten years since the first publication of Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice, the first book in the Imperial Radch trilogy. It will also mark about six months (give or take) since the publication of Translation State, which is a standalone novel also set in the same universe.

I am feral about these books, and I want to do something about it, so I want to make a zine to celebrate this fact. I think that Radch has had a seminal impact on the sci-fi genre, and I think that Seivarden has had an even more seminal impact on the poor little meow meow genre. 

I’m hoping that by the first of May, I’ll be able to put out an official call for people who would like, for whatever reason, to join me in this endeavour. The most important thing about this zine is that there will be a low bar for quality of submission, but a high bar for affection of submission. I do not expect to be an exemplary or unmatched editor, but I do expect that I will approach this project with love. As a result, all I can ask for is much the same - that you love the work.

If any of this sounds interesting or intriguing to you, please watch this space. I will put together a better pitch by May 1, which is when Translation State releases. Edit: TS releases June 6, Goodreads lied to me.

(If you want to poke me, my personal tumblr is indigocotton. You can also find me on the discord server for Ann Leckie’s works, which can be joined using this link: https://discord.gg/WAF8uv9f3k.)