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It’s Art Because I Said It Is Zine

Illustrations styled to look like brown and coloured ripped paper are layered in two sections. The top section reads “IT’S ART”. The bottom section reads “because i said it is”. There is a black, yellow, and pink arrow pointing from the bottom section to the top. Underneath this is a pink brush line and the text “an omniarts gb zine”. There are black hand drawn corner frames in the top right and bottom left, stars in the top left and a heart shape bottom right. The background is stylised as off-white parchment paper.“It’s Art Because I Said It Is” is a zine curated by OmniArts GB.

Our aim with this zine is to break down barriers to making art, and encourage everyone to embrace the creativity within them. Anyone can submit their work to be included in the zines. See below for rules and the current theme.

We don’t have a specific regular schedule for when we publish our zines, so if you want to be in the know for when we announce a new theme, follow us on Instagram!

Previous Issues

The front cover of issue 1 of an 18+ zine titled "it's art because i said it is" dated Autumn 2025. It was originally dated Autumn 2024, but the 4 is crossed through and a 5 written in next to it. The background is stylised as off-white parchment paper. This issue's theme is "outside the box". There are illustrations of cats in boxes around the theme name which has a roughly drawn double lined orange oval around it. The zine name is on illustrations styled to look like brown and coloured ripped paper, which are layered in two sections. The top section reads “IT’S ART” in capital letters. The bottom section reads “because i said it is” in lowercase letters. There is a black, yellow, and pink arrow pointing from the bottom section to the top. At the bottom of the page is the text “an omniarts gb zine”. There are black hand drawn style corner frames in the top right and bottom left, stars in the top left and a heart shape bottom right.

Submissions

Here at OmniArts we’re not huge fans of the term “deadline” so we use “raccoon checkpoint” instead. You know. Because we can.

Theme: TBA

Raccoon Checkpoint: TBA

Submit Your Art

Submission Form: https://forms.gle/1ydGTJQVL9gchL7T7 

If you have any questions, or are unable to submit all your work through the submission form, you can email us on: zine@omniartsgb.co.uk

Submission rules

  • Open to anyone aged 18+.
  • Any medium of static art (eg: poems, short stories, monologues, drawings, paintings, digital art, photography, collages, mixed media, photos of other mediums, sketches, musings).
  • Interpret the theme however you like.
  • Written pieces to be no longer than (roughly) 4000 (four thousand) characters. Ish. No minimum character limit (well…maybe like….one character).
  • Include whatever name/info you want to be given as the credit.
  • You retain copyright – by submitting your work you are confirming that you made it, you have permission from anyone featured in it to submit it to our zine, it’s not from AI, and you give OmniArts GB non-exclusive rights to publish it online and in print.
  • We don’t care if it’s been submitted or published somewhere else.
  • Please do not submit art that is homophobic, transphobic, bi/panphobic, racist, ableist, sexist or any other kind of “-phobic” or “-ist” which is based on the questioning, denial, or disrespect of a person’s humanity or rights.
  • OmniArts GB’s decisions on what is included in each zine is final.
  • Unfortunately no payment can be offered for any works submitted.
  • OmniArts GB may print and sell physical copies of the zines, any profit made from them will go towards the running costs of OmniArts GB groups and projects.

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