The Zine Librarians (Un)Conference is looking for participants and workshop presenters. From the press release / call for workshop proposals:

Zine librarians, collectors and creators are invited to the Richard Hugo House and the Zine Archive and Publishing Project for two days of discussion and presentation centered around the collecting and organizing of zines; be they in libraries, archives, infoshops, basements, or living rooms. Blending a traditional conference with the Unconference model, this gathering will be participatory and open. Workshops will be scheduled, and discussions of cataloging, organizing and promoting zine collections are expected, among other topics. All members of the zine community, including non-librarians, are invited to join in and take part.

The (un)conference will be held March 14 and 15 at the Zine Archive Publishing Project (ZAPP) at The Richard Hugo House in Seattle.

Lots of things coming up!

For zinesters in Sacramento:
“This year is going to be the debut of the first Sacramento Zine Expo! It’s still in the copulation stages and we need YOUR help to brainstorm and organize! Our first meeting is February 11th at 6PM at 122 B. St (Delta of Venus) in Davis, CA. Anyone and all interested should not hesitate to get involved. If interested, contact Sharmi Basu at shabasu@ucdavis.edu.”

For zinesters in the UK:

Zine makers from across the UK are invited to send a copy of their most recent zine to be included in a forthcoming exhibition at Turnpike Gallery in Greater Manchester. The exhibition, UK DIY, explores the emergency of alternative, subversive, political craft taking place across the UK as a new generation reclaim and re-define craft, adding a distinctive tongue-in-cheek edge, and features craft that crosses over with music, science, technology, activism, and street culture. The exhibition runs from 12 February – 25 April 2009.Send your zines to: UK DIY, Turnpike Gallery, Civic Square, Leigh, Greater Manchester, WN7 1EB. Please include your name and the town/city where you live. We’re unable to return zines at the end of the exhibition. Deadline for submissions is Monday 9 February 2009. For more information, please contact Louise Clennell, Gallery Co-ordinator, T. 01942 404469, email l.clennell@wlct.org, or visit www.uikdiycraft.com

For zinesters in Melbourne, Australia:
The first ever International Literature Conspiracy week will be held from Monday 9 – Sunday 15 February featuring zine launches at Sticky, insane creative projects to get involved with, and yes, a kick arse zine fair Saturday 14 February 2009. What better way to celebrate your love for zines than on valentine’s day, people. So mark this one in your diaries, and get ready to staple your heart out, because Sticky’s zine fair this year packed the subway out, and it’s going to be the same deal in 09, only bigger. Book your (free) table with Candace: runawaykite@gmail.com. To find out more information about the zine fair as well as all sorts of other events happening that week, go to http://www.stickyinstitute.com/

For zinesters in Canberra, Australia:
There’s a zine fair on Saturday 7 February 10AM-5PM at the ACT Writers Centre. It’s $10 for a table, or you could bring your own for free. It’s at QL2 Foyer, Gorman House Ainslie Ave, Braddon. Reserve your space at poetry.slams@gmail.com.

For zinesters in all over:
The Portland Zine Symposium dates are set! It will be held July 24-26 2009 at Portland State University. Now we’re looking for artwork! Could you be the one to create it?PZS is looking for art submissions for the 2009 poster. This year’s themes are cats, 9 lives, and “Hang in there!” Your art submission should touch on one or all of these themes.

The guidelines are simple – We are looking for a 11″ wide x 17″ tall posters that will also be used in other formats (the web, postcards, buttons, stickers, etc.), so your design needs to be visible and striking at multiple sizes and resolutions (or have smaller, breakaway pieces). The design will eventually be silk screened/screenprinted onto t-shirts, so limit your colors to black, white, and one other color. We encourage artists to use any medium or style. We strongly prefer that the chosen artist is able to assist us in the process of transferring (resizing/cropping/etc.) the image to multiple mediums. Your design should include:
-the theme
-the dates 
-the website (www.pdxzines.com)
-”9th Annual Portland Zine Symposium”
-”A conference and zine social exploring facets of underground publishing and DIY culture. 

The submission deadline is February 25th. Submissions can be emailed to pdxzines@gmail.com, mailed to PO Box 5901Portland OR 97228-5901, or dropped off at the IPRC.

2009 looks like it is shaping up to be an interesting year for zines. There’s some talk over at We Make Zines about declaring July as International Zine Month. We’ve just added a slew of events happening all over the globe to our events page. January and February will see zine fests happening in London, Ontario, and Brighton, plus a zine exhibit in Oceanside, CA.  The 14th annual San Francisco Anarchist Bookfair will be in March. April offers events in New York; Columbus,OH; and Muelheim, Germany. There’s sure to be lots more great events planned this summer; we’ll share the info as soon as dates are announced.

Also, if you’re in New York this week, don’t miss the zine reading at Bluestockings, 7-9 p.m. on January 7.  Six fabulous New York-based zines (and one from Pennsylvania!) provide a delicious evening of readings. The evening will feature: We’ll Never Have Paris, for all things never meant to be; Absent Cause, exploring the heart of dark and underground cultures; You Know Better, for the words you should have said (and some you shouldn’t); Obsolete, an alphabet of poems inspired by dead words; I Heart NYC (well not really but I’m trying), part visitor guide and part perzine; Primordial Perfection, a glimpse into one of the last wild places on earth; and Lower East Side Librarian Winter Solstice Shout-out, personal with a political bent (journal entries, essays, lists, and a shit ton of book reviews). This marks the first in a series of quarterly zine readings at Bluestockings! Open mic for zinesters follows, so bring your new, your old, your work-in-progress. Current issues of featured zines will also be available. Bluestockings is at 172 Allen St. (at Stanton, 1 block south of Houston).

If you know of an upcoming zine-related event, give us a shout and we’ll help promote it!

The Freeschool in Olympia has received some bad news during the holidays. Their landlord, J.D., sent them an email eviction notice on Dec. 17, telling them to be out by the 1st of Jan., in the middle of one of the worst winters Olympia has seen in years. Here’s a note from them:

“Since the Freeschool moved into that space on October 1st, 2008, despite the Freeschool paying hundreds of dollars of rent on time each month, the landlord and residents of the house have locked out Freeschool facilitators, vandalized Freeschool property, and attempted to take over Freeschool offices for use as their own personal Religious room, cancelled Freeschool classes for 10 days straight without asking any Freeschool volunteers and many more unethical activities.”

The Freeschool has already begun partnering with other progressive organizations in the area to form the Peace Communities, and they’re looking for others to share space in Olympia. They’re holding a public forum at Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art, 300 5th Ave SW, Olympia, WA 98501 on Friday, January 30 from 7-9pm. It’s free, and snacks will be served. 

For more information, visit the Freeschool website.

Have a happy New Year, everyone! 

Planning for the 2009 Portland zine symposium, which takes place every August, has officially begun! The first meeting for the symposium took place on Sunday Dec. 14, but there will be many more to come, so if you’re interested in helping plan, stay tuned for more details.

And a quick note from Alex Wrekk, for those who are thinking about helping: “To be a core symposium organizer YOU MUST BE ABLE TO ATTEND THE MONTHLY MEETINGS, which bump up to biweekly and weekly closer to PZS. So, closer to PZS, YOU MUST BE ABLE TO ATTEND WEEKLY MEETINGS, STARTING IN JUNE. Other positions are not quite as time intensive but are not needed until closer to the symposium date.”

The Women’s Library located at the London Metropolitan University will host a zine fest on January 24, 2009 from 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.  There will be workshops, panel discussions, and exhibitions.  For more information and a schedule of events  please check their website.

Lots of zine events going on this month:

Last weekend was the Philly Zine Fest.  This weekend is the Richmond Zine Fest. October 18 offers the Madison Zine Fest and the London Anarchist Bookfair. Also, starting next week and running through the end of the month, is the North of Nowhere Expo in Edmonton, Canada. The weekend of the 25th will see the New York Art Book Fair (including a queer zine exhibit), the Halifax Zine and Record Fair (in Canada), and Canzine 2008 in Toronto. And if that’s not enough for you, the Alternative Press Expo will be held Nov. 1-2 in San Francisco and the New Orleans Bookfair will be Nov. 15.

In other news, we’re a little late on this, but: Reading Frenzy, a kick ass zine store in Portland, is asking for support. To help raise funds, the store is trying to sign up 250 new Co-Frenzy members by the end of the year. Membership costs $100; in return for your financial support, you get perks like discount, a t-shirt, and a poster. If you can afford it, show some love.

From the SF Zine Fest Crew:

The SFZF has been invited to host a special zine space at the Treasure Island Music Festival, Sept. 20 +21. We are going to be setting up a fun, vintage-style library room stocked with some of our favorite mini-comics and zines for all you festival-goers to take a look at. Nothing will be for sale, just 100+ fantastic small press creations to “check out” and our staff of stylish zine librarians to help you find something fun to read while you take a break from rocking out! Drop by if you are there (tickets are still available… it’s a great line-up!) and say hi!

Live in/near Portland? Do us a favor and go to the Multnomah County Library 4th Annual Zinesters Talking series! Each Tuesday in September will feature local zinesters reading from their work at one of the MCL branches. Featured readers incldue: Kate Lopresti (Constant Rider), Katin Imes and Diane Gilleland (Citizeen), and Kelly Froh (titles). Zines by the presenters will be available for purchase. Find out more at the MCL website. (Sorry for the late announcement of this event; things have been hectic at ZW HQ.) Find pictures of MCL zine events at the mclzines flckr page.

Fais-Le Toi-Meme (translation: Do It Yourself) Symposium will be held Sept. 27-28 at L’Hybride, 18 rue Gosselet, in Lille, France (between Paris and Brussels). The event will include zine and small press publishers, distros, silkscreen artists, crafts, t-shirts, toys, self-produced CDs, concerts, movies, and more. Admission is free. Find out more at www.fais-le-toi-meme.com/ or www.myspace.com/salonfaisletoimeme.

Fred Wright (zine publisher and, dare I say, zine scholar) has a new novel: Blog Love Omega Glee, now being serialized on wredfright.blogspot.com. He tells us: “It’s set in 2012, and about two bloggers who fall in love while the world falls apart.  One blogs on professional wrestling and the other on conspiracy theories and politics, but the plot’s mainly the skeleton to hang the silliness upon.  Originally the characters were going to be zine publishers, so I think zinesters will relate to a number of things as the novel still documents the pitfalls and pleasures of self-publishing.”

Received this announcement from France: “DIYzines is a community website about drawing zines (graphzines, artbooks, self produced edition, underground press…) and limited edition (1 to 500 copies). DIYzines is a way to share information and to follow the current events of european graphziners. For us, zine editors, distribution is the main problem ; it is difficult to make ourselves known. Together, we are stronger. Yo! More than a online bookstore, DIYzines is a free community website. Each artist or publisher is the author of  his or her article: new books, exhibitions, call for submission, link to his or her website… You are in control of the information and you can update your own page at any time. You can also sell your books by paypal or otherwise. DIYzines is a totally free website and no commission is taken on your sales, it’s your business! www.DIYzines.com

Jerianne and mishap will be at the Portland Zine Symposium this Saturday. If you’re going, too, drop by and say hi.

We had hoped to debut the new issue of Zine World (#26) at the Symposium, but sadly we didn’t quite get it ready in time. We’re hoping to have it ready to release around Sept. 1. We will be pre-selling the new issue at the Symposium; we’ll have a preview copy of the nearly finished zine you can take a gander at. Pay for it in Portland, and we’ll mail you a copy just as soon as it’s published.

Jerianne will be presenting a workshop on Sunday called the Zinesters Guide to U.S. Mail, which will cover the options zine publishers can use for mailing zines within the U.S., along with other helpful advice about working with the postal service.

Stay tuned for more details about the new issue!

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