If you’re into spooky stuff, horror, or Halloween, you may be interested in a new project, Twin Ports Terror: A Haunted Duluth publication. It may seem a bit out of season as Spring approaches, but organizer Brooke Zarn fills in the details, and explains that they’re hoping to gather written and visual material before Halloween.

What is it?
Twin Ports Terror is an effort by the curators of the Haunted Duluth website (Matt Rasmussen, Sean Zarn and Brooke Zarn) to provide a platform for local writers and artists to share their stories, poems, artwork and photography within the horror genre. These items will be published on the Haunted Duluth website starting on Half-Halloween (the end of April), and continuing on as the Halloween season approaches. We’ll also look to host some story-telling events and perhaps publish a printed zine if there’s enough interest.

Who can submit?
Our goal is to include mostly works by people in the Twin Ports and surrounding areas, though we are currently also accepting submissions from people in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin. We may even extend our range depending on how many submissions we get. We are also considering doing separate sections for kids and adults. We are open to all styles, lengths, sizes and types of writing and art.

Organizers Matt Rasmussen, Brooke Zarn and Sean Zarn

What next?
First, head to Facebook and like our page for updates: facebook.com/twinportsterror.

Second, if you’ve got something you’d like to submit, email it to us at [email protected]. With each submission please include:

Your full name
Your artist/writer name if different
Where you live (town or general area is fine)
Also: We encourage you to send a link to any page, blog, etc. that you’d like to direct viewers and/or readers to.

It is preferable that you send any writing submission(s) as an attached Word document, and images as some sort of universal format (such as .jpg, .png, .bmp).

We do accept previously published material, as long as it doesn’t infringe upon any copyrights; by submitting you are stating that it doesn’t.

All rights to a work revert to the author upon publication. By submitting your work, you are granting Twin Ports Terror the right to indefinitely promote and/or use your work in any way it sees fit. This will usually take the form of using excerpts for promotional purposes, but may extend to others.

By submitting your work, you are certifying that it is your own and does not infringe on the copyrights of any other author, artist, story or work.