Hi there! Thank you for your questions! We plan to allow 2-3 weeks after the interest check closes to update our budget and hold additional mod applications and then contributor applications will open in early April after new mods have been accepted and briefed. Please make sure you have at least 1 example of the Gravity Falls characters in your art/writing style in your portfolio if you plan to apply! :)) An 'official' schedule will be posted sometime shortly after the interest check closes.

We plan to have a short 2-week pitching period at the start of the zine where everyone will submit 3 ideas for a piece they'd like to do for the zine and the mods will approve one. This is to make sure we have different ideas in the zine (not everyone drawing or writing about a snowball fight, for example) and also that we have a balance of pieces for each season.
You will also be given the opportunity to suggest your idea(s) in your application but nothing will be approved until the pitching period. Just in case anyone is stuck for ideas, we've got a long list of suggestions from our mods and interest check! :)