Call for Submissions: THE UNPOSTED (zine, issue 01)
a lo-fi remix of the online feed
I’ve been thinking about all the things we post, almost post, delete, draft, save, and never return to. The stuff that scrolls by. The stuff that lingers. The stuff that maybe wasn’t meant for the algorithm at all. The oversharing, the tears, the dances, the songs, the jokes, the influence, the drama.
So I’m making a zine.
I’m making a zine with you, people of Work Unseen.
You don’t have to download it.
There are no usernames or passwords to save.
It’s called THE UNPOSTED, and it’s exactly what it sounds like:
a feed made of fragments—flattened, photocopied, and mailed.
This is not social media.
But it’s made from it.
A 2D, colorless, quiet remix of all the ways we try to reach out:
tweets, DMs, deleted captions, story slides, screenshots, selfies with no purpose, notes from your Notes app, Google searches, prompts you gave GPT.
Maybe you posted it.
Maybe you didn’t.
Either way, it belongs here.
This zine will be printed and folded onto a single page.
There’s no algorithm. No notifications. No performance.
Your post will exist quietly—until someone decides to respond.
That response, if it comes, might arrive by inbox or by mail.
If you’re unfamiliar with zines, check out this wonderful explainer published by The Creative Independent, How to make a zine. Perfect little overview by Rona Akbari.
✏️ Want to submit something?
One sentence, one image, one strange digital artifact.
Here are some ideas:
A screenshot of a tweet (posted or drafted)
A question you asked Google at 2am
A deleted caption
A prompt you gave ChatGPT
A selfie with no context
A DM you never sent
A DM you sent to celebrity
A story slide you screenshotted
A line from your Notes app
A meme you made for no one
A status update that felt like too much
Something you posted once—but want seen differently now
✂️ Submit to THE UNPOSTED
Deadline: March 31 at midnight ET
The first issue will be free as a PDF for all subscribers, and mailed as a physical copy to paid subscribers and contributors. I’ll also be sending a few copies to people I admire, press, and creators who align with Work Unseen.
Let’s make a slower kind of scroll.
Let’s build a quieter kind of feed.
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