Fall Submissions

Now accepting submissions for the third issue of the Arachne webzine (Fall, 2016)

The zine’s themes; gender, labor, and technology focus this project on explorations of the landscape upon which ideas of self, society, public, community, and craft, are constructed on and offline today.

The zine’s theme comes from myth of Arachne, an origin story for the spider described in Ovid’s The Metamorphoses (Latin: Metamorphoseon libri, “Books of Transformations,” 8 AD). Arachne (Greek: ἀράχνη) was a weaver who was challenged by the goddess Pallas Minerva (Greek: Athena, Ἀθηνᾶ) to a weaving contest. Her story represents the theme of humans holding contests with the gods. Although there are other accounts, in Ovid’s story, Arachne fatally lost, despite the goodness of her craft and the beauty of the garment she produced. As a sort of lenient curse for thinking she could beat Pallas Minerva, Arachne and all of her offspring were transformed into spiders, allowing them to keep weaving while no longer enjoying human pleasures.

Pitching to Arachne:

Essays, critical texts, fiction, poetry, artworks and illustration, coded webpages, and other mixed media all welcome. Writers and contributors will be engaged in a constructive editing process.

To pitch to us prepare a short synopsis. Include references to sources you are researching to support your argument or bring context if it’s an essay . If you have a website, blog, or other documentation of your recent work, please link to that. We accept complete works and pitches for works that are in process to be completed for the issue.

Pitches for Issue 3 accepted before August 15th and can be sent to: arachnezine at gmail dot com.