long arm stapler

card by B.T. Livermore, www.bigtimeillustration.com

During last weekend’s Chicago Zine Festival, Quimby’s Bookstore awarded the 2nd annual Long Arm Stapler award to Jerianne, “for her tireless work as editor of Zine World and administrator for Zine Wiki,” and to Zine World:

“The classic review zine, Zine World is now on its 30th issue as a beacon and resource for independent publishing, putting zines and distros in touch with their audiences and vice versa. Zine World’s print edition is supplemented by an active Zine World website and blog, operated as a not-for-profit labor of love. Operated out of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Zine World is a testament to vibrancy of independent press in rural towns. Zine Wiki is an amazing wiki-format database of zinesters and zinedom and a welcome addition to archiving strategies for sharing/preserving/gathering information on homemade media that is often small run, often locally-distributed. Jerianne balances her involvement with promoting and participating in independent publishing with grad school, motherhood, and a day job as a librarian (let’s not forget that she helped start her library’s zine collection as well as all this other stuff!).”

We are quite honored to receive this award! Jerianne wishes to thank all of the volunteers who help make each issue of Zine World possible, and all of the zine publishers worldwide who inspire her to keep on keepin on. And: thank you to Alex Wrekk for accepting on our behalf (and for not being mad because we failed to give her a proper acceptance speech). Jerianne wishes she could have been there to accept in person.

The Long Arm Stapler Award is “an annual honor bestowed upon a group or individual dedicated to self-publishing and the First Amendment.” The inaugural award was given to the Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) in 2010.