/ ABOUT & SUBMIT
/ MISSION
Droplets is a Zine created by the Esteves Cooper family to provide a space for kids to share their voices through creative writing, photography, music and art. Their contributions are droplets that together form a river of creative community. Through creative connection, kids will be empowered to join the sea unafraid.
Droplts stands for Drop: Language, Texture, Sound. The idea is simple: small creative pieces can carry big ideas. A poem, a photo, a drawing, a short story, a song clip. Each one is a droplt. Together, they become a shared creative current.
Droplt
- Short poems
- Short short stories
- Art pieces, on a square
- Photos, square
- Sub-minute music
Tsunami
- Longer short stories
- Art pieces, any size — going over 2D is encouraged
- Photos, any size
- Music, any length
The Ripple Award
One submission from the first issue will receive the Ripple Award, an Odobo Serendipity Bookstore gift card, for a piece that feels strange, original, fully imagined or impossible to forget.
/ SUBMIT · SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN NOW
Send something you made.
Droplts, a new online zine created by artists for artists, is now accepting submissions from writers, artists, photographers and musicians.
Submissions do not need to be perfect or polished. They just need to be made by the artist submitting them.
No AI-created work will be accepted. Droplts is for original human creativity, strange ideas, small observations, weird stories, rough sketches, quiet photos, loud sounds and anything that feels fully its own.
/ MASTHEAD
- PUBLISHER
- Esteco Labs ↗ Ideation. Research. Development. We build across every domain. No single vertical. If it's worth doing, we figure it out.
- EDITOR IN CHIEF
- William Esteves Cooper
- STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
- Micah Esteves Cooper
- GOVERNANCE & CYBERSECURITY
- Dot Think Design ↗
All works are original, human produced and human edited. No AI use is permitted in the creation of submitted pieces. UX & engineering was human-directed and robots executed under the supervision of a human adult.