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About Silence Dogood

Silence Dogood is a collective magazine of public letters. It takes its name from the pen name a sixteen-year-old Benjamin Franklin used in 1722, when he slipped fourteen letters signed “Silence Dogood” under the door of the New-England Courant.

A collective magazine

The front page gathers letters from across the whole collective. Each letter belongs to its author; the magazine is the commons where they meet.

Contributor desks

Every contributor keeps a desk of their own — a personal letter-book on this network at silencedogood.antisocialists.site/yourname/ — where they write, revise, and publish under their own name or a pen name, as Franklin did.

Would-be contributors may write to contributors@antisocialists.site to ask for a desk.