Hello all, HIVES is excited to remind you of our 2024 Call For Things for Volume III of the Buzz-Zine. Details are below. We've expanded the call for fiction and commentary to up to 1500 words. Buzz-Zine: a call for artwork, poetry, short fiction, and short commentary. Submissions due March 29th, 2024 for print and digital release Summer 2024 (tentative). Submit your art, poetry, audio, short fiction, commentary, and/or hybrid creative media via email at stokesm7@msu.edu. HIVES is interested in all forms of multimodal, multimedia submission-Things. Do you have HIVES yet? From buzzing into a sci-fi future that’s not attuned to human biological needs? Because you’ve been touched by a well-meaning but misunderstood sewer mutant? Because you get goosebumps when you witness vibrant queer-crip communities? The HIVES Research Workshop and Speaker Series on disability, fiction, and speculation is creating a third volume of the digital & print Buzz-Zine! We welcome submissions that offer commentary and speculation focused on the practices that we use to imagine disabled bodyminds into an ever more precarious future. In Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times, Aimee Bahng offers a means to speculate in ways that open futurity to a plurality of bodyminds and ways of being by proposing a “politics of mutation,” where “mutation finds its expression in changing the materiality of a thing, likely in ways that alter conceptualizations of bodies, differentiation, origins, and copies” (151). HIVES seeks writing, art, sound, and creative expression that might, as Bahng puts it, “persist speculatively, against all odds… to hold open the aperture to the beyond, where the systems that seemingly dominate cease to overwhelm” (170). This Call for Things seeks works that reimagine the communities of the future, stretching towards a plurality of possible tomorrows that refuse the homogenous, all-chrome, all-superhuman narratives that often occupy the temporal space beyond the now. In the interest of building the HIVES community, we are seeking contributions for a short run (100 issues) paper-print zine that will also be made available via .pdf on the HIVES website. While we do not have a tremendous budget, we will be able to pay $25 for each of the pieces selected for publication. Submissions may be previously published (if so, please provide us with the necessary information to cite where). When submitting, include a brief biographical statement (1-2 sentences) that will accompany the work. The Buzz-Zine seeks to make space for scholarship/poetics/art that challenge notions of the boundaries and definitions of each of these genres while reimagining accessibility and community. For examples of previously published works, check out the previous volumes of the Buzz-Zine on the HIVES Website, linked here: Buzz-Zine<https://behives.org/buzz-zine/>. Through submission of creative works you are agreeing to grant HIVES all necessary rights and permission as the sole author to publish your work in the zine. If selected, the zine will be made publishable through short-run paper format and also as PDF on behives.org. All rights revert back to the author after publication. Notes on formatting: Art contributions should be formatted for printing on a 5.5 X 8.5 in (140 x 216 mm) sheet, with a 3mm bleed and 8mm margins left and right. Please submit images as .png or .jpg files with as high of quality as possible. Poems should be up to 21 lines (1 page) or less than 44 lines (2 pages). Short fiction and commentary should be approximately 1500 words or less. If you have any formatting and/or submission questions, please reach out to HIVES via stokesm7@msu.edu. Best, HIVES