About This Digital Space

Every blog and every journal is made for its own authors and editors to create as they see fit (and hopefully for others to read!) As both a writer and an editor, I find myself fascinated by things that are somehow skew. The norm in our culture, of course, is late capitalism, and it’s beginning to kill us all, at an ever increasing pace. We need the forces that work against that, or at least help to keep those things in check.

For me, those are such things as the arts, politics, religion and spirituality, health, and so many more. As a gay/bi man/non-binary writer, I enjoy writing about the arts, music and theater in particular, and currently serve as the US writer for British Theatre Guide. In religion, I write, a lot about religion and spirituality, and write a monthly column for the Peninsula Daily News in Port Angeles WA where I live in the US. I’m also an artist and as I make things, I might just post them.

You’re welcome to come along for the ride. If you find yourself constantly thinking of things in ways others don’t, or making art or music that’s odd or different,. feel free to send your work to submissions at discombobulated dot info and I’ll take a look at it. Deal? Beginners are definitely welcome! And sound experiments? Definitely welcome!

In the long run, I hope this blog slowly and surely morphs into a journal.

Hit me up!

Keith Dorwick
Editor, discombobulated.info
https://discombobulated.info

call for works: discombobulated.info

Hello, fellow writers, artists, reviewers, and other makers! As the editor of a new zine, discombobulated.info, I would like to ask to submit your newest and most edgy work.

I publish text, digital works, images, short sound pieces, and short videos and we would love to see your work and work to get it online. I will also be building a new board and staff over the next few months. If you want to help set the vision of discombobulated.info, let me know that.

Our submission system right now is that old standby, submission by email to:

submission at discombobulated dot info

Political and religious works are very acceptable; however, we are not interested in and will not accept pieces that serve as hate mail or are homophobic, transphobic, racist, misogynist, ableist or sizeist. In other words, authors must play nice and respect both other authors and our readers.

Above all, your work should be evocative, edgy, and sometimes just plain weird, as befits our journal title and while genre work such as speculative fiction or detective fiction are not encouraged, neither are they forbidden. Keep it short though. A short length or duration forces a tight focus.

Finally, we use continuous publication. We publish as soon as we can.

Copyright Notice: You retain copyright except  you agree that publication in discombobulated.info gives us a permanent and irrevocable license to host a copy or copies of your work on our servers.

You do not need to ask for reprint permission. It remains your work.


You may send inquiries and questions to me directly at:

kdorwick at discombobulated dot info

and I will get back to you. Thanks so much and I look forward to working with you.

Keith Dorwick
Editor, discombobulated.info

about us

Welcome to discombobulated.info, an imprint of e-space. We are a gallery/journal/zine for writers, designers, artists, and others who work with digital media to create works that span the gap between literary works including poetry and the arts; we sometimes publish documentation for ephemeral work and site installations. We like edgy work, but especially work that involves fragmentation, temporality, destruction, and other ways of shifting the writer’s or artist’s work to something different, including both ekphrastic poetry but also, a rarer form, ekphrastic art that refers back to print artifacts or other modes such as music. The more varied the connections, the better for us.

We are open to a wide variety of subjects, as well, including all areas of human endeavor: representations and collaborations with the sciences, the arts, philosophy, and so on. This is not a place, however, for academic papers. We specialize in short length works. See our call for more details.

While we wish to publish works that engage such tough subjects as disabilities of all kinds, racism, classism, sexism, homo- and transphobia, and homelessness, all works appearing on these pages must demonstrate a compassion towards all marginalized folks of every kind.

If you would like to submit proposals, we will soon be announcing our submissions system. Currently submissions are by e-mail to submission at discombobulated dot info though (hopefully) soon we will upgrade to a formal submission system.

Welcome to discombobulated.info!

Hello, all. Welcome to this new zine and gallery for digital artists and writers. We will soon be looking for new digital works in various formats (more details forthcoming as we continue to discuss our mission and aesthetic).

When we post our call, do submit, but if you feel your work doesn’t fit our call, just write us (via our contact page), and we will be glad to talk to you about what you’re working on and how you might fit into this space. We’re pretty open, so do not be afraid to ask.

Submissions open immediately with first publication scheduled to appear on our site very soon after.