LOOMING is a zine dedicated to exploring the impacts of technology, particularly digital technologies. Our title is intended to invoke a few things: the human-scale technology of hand looms that have been used for millennia to weave textiles; the power-looms that displaced skilled workers during the early industrial era; the sense of looming threat in an age of unregulated Big Tech growth; and the etymological link between textile, technology, and text.

 

Our position is not anti-technology. We are in favor of technologies that are created and used with informed consent and that support human flourishing. But we don’t buy the hype.

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Call for poetry, short fiction, and art:  LOOMING (issue 3, spring 2026).

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Deadline: Assembly will likely begin in March, so we encourage submission by March 1, but since we are now publishing semi-regularly, you are welcome to submit at any time to be considered for future issues. Your own previously published work that speaks to the theme is acceptable as long as you have the rights to reproduce it.

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Have any poetry, short fiction, or art that speaks to the lure of screens, or about getting away from them? About your relationship to technology? About being human in the 21st century? About the history or the value of human work? About imagined futures (dystopian or hopeful)? Etc etc....Send them our way!

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As with issues 1 & 2 will be published as a black-and-white photocopied zine distributed in Lawrence, Kansas, and will eventually be shared online as a pdf.