Short Run

Short Run is an event showcasing regional small press publications and individual makers of art books, zines, comics, literary works, and animation. It is an alternative to large-scale commercial conventions and will focus on alternative press, limited editions, and handmade books.

http://www.shortrun.org/

A Peek Inside The Los Angeles Zine World: An Interview With Geoffrey Golden And Amanda Meadows Of The Devastator

Zine News Round-Up: 06.05.12

Zine News Round-Up: 06.05.
from Spill The Zines! by noreply@blogger.com (Cath)

 

 

1. Zine Releases

2. Upcoming Events

3. Submission Calls

4. Distro News

5. AOB (Any Other Business)

 

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1. Zine Releases- Buy Her Candy #2, a feminist perzine, has been released this week – buy a copy at Bettie’s etsy store.
- The first issue of perzine Bloomurder has just been published! Buy a copy at http://www.etsy.com/listing/98939203/bloomurder-a-perzine

- Girls Get Busy #12, a feminist compzine, is out now! Buy a copy at their Big Cartel store.

- Gayle B has just released a free minizine entitled ‘Everyday Nonsense’. For a copy, email Gayle at gbugbyAThotmail.co.uk
- Oddments #4: The Book Issue, is a perzine written by Marceline Smith, the person behind Pushpin Publishing! Buy your copy here.

- Free zine Bread of Life #2, is out now. Get in touch with the author to arrange swaps or sends!
- Smasha Zine, a music zine published out of Kent, has just released its 4^thissue. Buy or trade by emailing the author at smashazineATlive.co.uk.

2. Upcoming Events- Medway Zines Zine Reading + Workshop: Saturday 12^th May at CoFORWARD. There is only limited space in the venue, so book early to avoid disappointment! More info at http://medwayzines.tumblr.com/.
- Victoria Baths Fanzine Convention: Saturday 19th May at Victoria Baths, Manchester. There are plenty of spaces for stallholders left – more info can be found here.
- Nottingham Zine Fair: Saturday 26^th May at Spanky Van Dykes, Nottingham, 12 til 6pm. Stalls are still available! More info can be found at their website, or their twitter.
- Inc Magazine #5 Launch Party: Wednesday 30^th May at The Bookclub, Shoreditch, London. With live poetry, music, and free zines! RSVP and details here.
- Loosely Bound Presents God Save The Zine: Tuesday 5^th June at ‘Handmade in Bradford’, 11am til 3pm. Organised by Loosely Bound Zine Collective; more info can be found at their website.
- The Great Glasgow Charity Comic Mart: Saturday 9^th June at Britannia Panopticon, Glasgow. More info here.
- Leeds Zine Fair: Sunday 4^th November. If you'd like to get involved in organising the zine fair, or hold a stall at the zine fair then get in touch at footprintATfootprinters.co.uk
- Anyone interested in a Norfolk zine fest? Join the conversation over at We Make Zines.

3. Submission Calls- Jean McEwan and Jon Eland invite you to submit your interest or finished pieces celebrating the work of the alternative rock band Flaming Lips. More info here.

- Fatty Unbound has sent out a submission call for Make It Work #2, a fatshion/craft zine. Lots of writing prompts and details can be found here.

- Pandora Press, a feminist compzine published by Swansea Feminist Network, is still looking for contributions for its 4^th issue, the “pink” issue! More details here: http://swanseafeministnetwork.wordpress.com/pandora-press

- Last week’s submission calls are still open too!

4. Distro News

- Marching Stars is on hiatus for a little while – check back in a week or so! www.marchingstars.co.uk

- New zines at Pushpin Publishing! http://www.pushpinzines.co.uk/collections/new

5. AOB
- Bettie, author of zine series Anatomical Heart and Buy Her Candy, has started a blog all about stationery! Us zinesters are the biggest stationery geeks, so you should definitely go and check it out: http://thepocketnotebook.blogspot.co.uk/

- Spill the Zines’ “Ten Tips for First Time Zinesters”, written by Hannah, is doing the rounds on tumblr and getting some great feedback! Check it out for yourself here (and if you want to reblog, you can find it on tumblr here).

The Fly Away Zine Mobile

http://lazinefest.com/tag/fly-away-zine-mobile/

Spring on Main Street

This Friday, March 16 from 7 to 9 p.m... Newark.. spoken word... Steven Leach, poet, radio host, editor, and publisher... Franetta McMillian, poet, prose writer and ‘zine’ publisher, published in “Perspectives of New Music”, “Taproot” and “Jittering Microscope”. won ‘zine’ awards and been published in numerous ‘zines’.

http://www.newarkpostonline.com/features/article_3e1b9e66-6a18-11e1-9abe-0019bb2963f4.html

Zine News Round-Up: 21.08.11 from Spill The Zines! by Cath

Zine News Round-Up: 21.08.11

from Spill The Zines! by noreply@blogger.com (Cath)

1. Zine Releases

2. Upcoming Events

3. Submission Calls

4. Zine Reviews
5. Distro News

6. AOB (Any Other Business)

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1. Zine Releases - Bettie, the lady behind mental health zine Anatomical Heart, has released the first issue of her new perzine series, Buy Her Candy! Get your copy at Bettie’s etsy shop.
 - The second issue of DJ Moonlight’s perzine, Dancing Barefoot, is now available!  Contact her for a copy at moonlight.phoenixATgmailDOTcom.

2. Upcoming Events - DIY Summer At Site: 23^rd August – 7^th September. A series of workshops, talks, and events celebrating DIY and creativity. Zines will be exhibited and sold there by Rotheram Zine Library.  More info here.

 - I’ve Zine You Zine Fair @ Edinburgh: 28^th & 29^th August. Come along to the Book Trust, 55 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1SR, or to get involved email ivezineyouATgmailDOTcom.
 - Cambridge Creative Fair: 3rd September.  Hosted by the Whirlygig Collective, 10.30am til 6pm.  For more info, email the organisers at infoATwhirlygigDOTme.
 - Sheffield Zine Fair: 25^th September. Stall applications now closed!
 - Camden Zine Fest: 8^th October.  Stall and workshop applications are now open, and they’re completely free!  Will is particularly keen to have zinesters and DIY types tabling there, so book yours at http://camdenzinefest.blogspot.com/.

3. Submission Calls- New feminist magazine LIB is looking for articles and artwork for its first issue! Deadline: 1^st September.  For more info or to submit something, contact the team at lib.magazineATgmailDOTcom. 

 - Submissions wanted for a body positive zine, title TBC. 'It has to do with how you feel about your body. It doesn’t really have any other guidelines other than that. ANYONE can submit, you don’t have to be a woman identified person." More info at http://slutrevolution.tumblr.com/submit.
 - Shark Dating: An Inspirational and Instructive Manual, aka the Good (femme of colour/ Indigenous femme) zine: http://www.brownstargirl.org/

Tukru is looking for submissions for the second issue of Vampire Sushi.  The main theme is vampires but other monsters & horror creatures / themes are welcome too. The deadline is September 18^th. More info at Vampire Sushi’s tumblr.
 - Liam is looking for two illustrators to design covers for the next issue of Lost Boy zine.  If you’re interested you can email Liam at lostboyzineATgmailDOTcom or leave him an ask on his tumblr.

4. Zine Reviews

 - Sophie at Oh My Clumsy Heart has posted some zine recommendations – take a look.


5. Distro news
 - Marching Stars is off hiatus! Hurrah! www.marchingstars.co.uk

5. A.O.B.
 - Mslexia are running a women’s novel competition! The competition is open to unpublished women novelists writing in any genre for adults (where a novel is defined as a work constituting of at least 50,000 words).  The prize is £5000 and a chance to win a publishing contract. Closing date 30^th September. More info here.
 - A new zine night is being set up in Cambridge - for zine makers and wannabe zine makers. For more information, you can join the Cambridge Zine Boogaloo mailing list http://eepurl.com/ffmEo
 - Evan has buried comics zines in London (and Athens) for people to find! How exciting! More info here.
 - Back issues of Adventures in Menstruating are back in stock - hurrah! More info here: http://chartyourcycle.wordpress.com/zines/

Zine Fair and Youth Arts Market Blacktown

Portrait Zine Class

When: Sat., March 26, 12 p.m.
Price: $40/$35 members

Forget blogs and zine out when the Zootown Arts Community Center, 235 N. First St. W., presents its Portrait Zine Class, which is taught by local artist and zine writer Ladypajama and features the chance for students to use photos and their drawings to create a small zine, from noon–5 PM. $40/$35 members. Call 549-7555 to RSVP and visit zootownarts.org.

Zootown Arts Community Center (ZACC)

• Missoula 235 N. First St.

world's largest zine collection?

Matt has just purchased the bulk of Fact Sheet 5's zine collection. Those 12,000 zines and comics plus his already sizable collection probably makes this the largest zine collection in the world. He guesses he has at least 20,000 zines.

Riot Grrrl: Traces of a Movement

Creating a Teen Zine Collection

Creating a Teen Zine Collection December 16, 2010

Posted by heathercolby in Articles.
Tags: Crafts, Magazines, Self-publishing, Zines
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It’s no secret that I love zines (which I often describe as self-published mini magazines). I’ve been reading them since I was in high school, and I’ve made many close friends because of them. So when the possibility of creating a zine collection for teens at my library (the Homer Township Public Library) was brought up, I got REALLY EXCITED. A few months later, we now have a small collection of zines available (which still makes me REALLY EXCITED). So here’s a little bit about the how and the why, in case you want to do something similar.

Why a zine collection for teens? There are several reasons. Many teens have never heard of or seen a zine. As a librarian, I am lucky to have a public space in which to introduce someone to new things. I also think it’s our responsibility to offer collections of all kinds, and while zines will never be as recognized as other forms of media, that doesn’t make them of any less value. Having zines at the library (and offering books, pamphlets, and workshops about zines) shows teens that you don’t have to be a super famous writer in order to have your voice heard. All you need is a story to tell & access to a photocopier.

How did I create this collection? The short version is this: Once I got the okay from my director, I did some research on zine collections in public libraries, and then I headed to Quimby’s. I was able to spend a few hours sitting on their floor, flipping through hundreds of different zines and mini-comics (I wanted to make sure what I was buying was age appropriate, of course). I pulled a few zines from my own collection, had some zines donated by friends, and then I bought Whatcha Mean What’s a Zine? and Stolen Sharpie Revolution. We decided not to catalog the zines, and to keep them as an in-house-only collection (for the meantime, at least). I purchased a small bin to store them, made up a sign, printed off a few copies of Zines 101 (thanks, Zine World!), and started to spread the word. I spent about $100, and now we have a unique collection of awesome zines in my teen space.

Zines are not usually found on the shelves within public libraries (although the number is increasing each year). I’m lucky enough to have a director who is supportive of new ideas and a teen community that is responsive to additions to the YA collection. As a zine enthusiast and a public librarian, it doesn’t get any better than this.

http://yasfnews.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/creating-a-teen-zine-collection/

calling zinesters for articles

calling zinesters for articles

from We Make Zines by Lu Douglas

Hello Zinesters, the Australian Book Arts Journal (ABAJ) is dedicated to book art, binding, letterpress, printmaking and zines and we want to invite you to submit an article about your work, zines or zine related stories. Every issue will have an article on zines so contact Linda at theraggededge@hotmail.com The website for ABAJ should be up and running in time for the December 15 issue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Available by subscription only. Dec issue will include Paper Cuts collective's story and the Qld zine scene!! Lu

Venus Zine Shuts Down Print Operations

Parts and Crafts Collective in the Boston area

Parts and Crafts Collective is a group of thinkers, teachers, and tinkerers in the Boston area who are interested in helping people build, think, create, succeed, fail, and learn. We run hands-on creative arts, science, and engineering programs for kids and adults to help people learn and do and make things. Details online at www.partsandcrafts.org.

New zine to celebrate Kalamazoo's artistic underground

Power of the pen tackles bullying

Power of the pen tackles bullying

By Duncan Bick

Published: 01 December, 2010

YOUNG members of a Findhorn Foundation-based club have come up with a new weapon in the fight against bullying.

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Moray Art Centre's Manga Club has created the 'Manga-zine' a new publication, which they hope will inform and assist against the unwelcome practice.

Echo Curio on Sunset Boulevard

seems like a decade in scene years, Echo Curio on Sunset Boulevard has served the all-ages community as a performance space, an art gallery, and a boutique for obscure music and zines--all the time teetering on the brink of the financial ruin that comes from the sin of trying to serve Los Angeles' cultural needs without also serving drinks. Now that the powers that be have finally put their zoning talons into the Curio's neck, that ruin is imminent, and the venue has announced it will be closing by the end of the year.