ABOUT
What started as poetry hummed over an out-of-tune guitar, echoing around the white walls of my family home, born out of anticipatory grief and over-the-top teenage angst…has transformed over the years into snapshots of imprints—proof we exist (or existed) in each other’s lives. A collection of connection.
To All My Friends, To All My Family is a collaborative zine run by Ellie Noti that celebrates connection in all forms. The first issue began as the final project for a college class on literary journals.

The theme and title chosen were recycled from the collection of personal letters and short stories I wrote and never published my first year of college, whose theme and title were recycled from the EP I wrote and never recorded in high school. Mostly just intending to give the project a final resting place, I began piecing together and revising what semi-salvageable poems and prose pieces I had from over the years, and on a whim, I took my professor up on collaborating with creative writing students as well.
Emboldened by the incredible responses I received from the creative writing students I was put in contact with, I decided to dip into my existing pool of writer friends and ask whether they had any interest in contributing too—and I was met with an enthusiastic yes from all of them. THUS, after years of pushing this shapeless project around like mushy peas on a dinner plate, the final form of To All My Friends, To All My Family was born (with the help of my friends and family, of course).
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
THEME
Relationships and connection—any type of relationship (parental, siblings, romantic, platonic, strangers, etc.) any type of connection (positive, negative, bittersweet, etc.) Words unsent, unsaid, for better or for worse.
GENRES
CNF pieces, unsent letters—or sent letters, if the other side of the exchange is comfortable with that, fiction, essays, and poetry. These are not strict guidelines—I am very open.
- For CNF, letters, essays, and fiction, a very flexible maximum of 2000 words. For poetry, a very flexible maximum of 35 lines. Please upload your plain text document as a .DOCX or .DOC file.
VISUAL ART SUBMISSIONS
Think graphite and charcoal, thick lines and emotion. Doodles on the back of receipts, in the corners of notebooks, quick sketches on the bus. Anything created on physical paper (scans of letters, sticky notes, physical collages, etc.).
- Please scan and upload any visual submissions as .PDF or .PNG files. Most scanners will format your file as .PDF automatically.
SUBMISSIONS ARE CLOSED! STAY TUNED FOR UPDATES!
Thank you!
CONNECT
Ellie Noti
ellienoti@gmail.com