Diet Soap is a new ‘zine, “a commodity that nobody needs but everybody wants, a thought everybody is trying to get rid of, a ‘zine with revolutionary ambitions.” Editors Doug Lain and M.K. Hobson released a preview issue #0 at WisCon (which is available as a pdf file on their web site). Issue #1 is scheduled to be released in November, and they’ve just announced the table of contents:
“Diary of a Nonsworn” by Holly K. Hein
“Observer Effects” by Tim Pratt
“The Basement, Borges” by Darin C. Bradley
“A Brief History of Cakes and Cake Making” by Eric Weiskott
“Evelyn Manesta and the Resistance to Modern Photographic Surveillance” by Bill Brown (of the Surveillance Camera Players)
“A Dead Man in Internet Images” by J. A. Tyler
“From Georges Bataille to Jesus Christ in Four Moves” by Ben Segal
“Xi’an (a Metophilia)” by Brendan Connell
For potential writers, they “are seeking fiction, essays, reportage, and art that documents and accelerates the deterioration of the late capitalist order rather than works that celebrate or reinforce the deterioration that is the late capitalist order. We want stories that defy genre distinctions because they seek to escape the confinement of ideology. We want essays that are personal and strange and full of passion without being sentimental, ahistorical, bourgeois or confessional. We want art that confronts rather than comforts.”
They pay $5 per piece. For full guidelines, see this page.