Month: November 2024

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ZineWriMo 2024 Day 11: Make a Zine – Celebrate Someone

ZineWriMo Day 11: Make a Zine – Make a zine celebrating someone

Happy Monday, zine friends! We don’t have Happy Mail Monday today, but we do have plenty of good feels with today’s prompt!

I had the inspiration for this zine quite a while ago and was happy to have the time to not only start but also finish this zine today! This one is for my recent but already dear friend Violet who has taught me so much.

Who are you celebrating today?

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That is all for my day 11. Check out this ZineWriMo post for more on the background of ZineWriMo as well as the prompts list. Also be sure to check out the links below to start connecting to other zinemakers.

Joining In

*Hadass – https://hadass420.wordpress.com

*Smita – https://www.instagram.com/smitavkumar/

*ShellBob – https://www.instagram.com/shellbobmv/

*Erica – https://www.instagram.com/erica.engdahl/

*Nina – https://echopublishing.wordpress.com

*Ola – https://www.instagram.com/backseatzzz/

*Sierra – https://www.instagram.com/sierradecarmen/

~Let me know if you are participating so I can add you to the list!~

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ZineWriMo 2024 Day 10: Sharing is Caring – Favourite Zine Tools

ZineWriMo Day 10: Sharing is Caring: Show off your favourite zinemaking tools

Is it Sunday already? My goodness. Today we show off our favourite zinemaking tools. I wasn’t sure what to pick at first because my love of stationery includes so much. But then I thought I would pick what I use most – which has to be what I have in my pencil case!

What are your favourite zinemaking tools?

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That is all for my day 10. Check out this ZineWriMo post for more on the background of ZineWriMo as well as the prompts list. Also be sure to check out the links below to start connecting to other zinemakers.

Joining In

*Hadass – https://hadass420.wordpress.com

*Smita – https://www.instagram.com/smitavkumar/

*ShellBob – https://www.instagram.com/shellbobmv/

*Erica – https://www.instagram.com/erica.engdahl/

*Nina – https://echopublishing.wordpress.com

*Ola – https://www.instagram.com/backseatzzz/

*Sierra – https://www.instagram.com/sierradecarmen/

~Let me know if you are participating so I can add you to the list!~

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Check It Out:  VLASINDA’s DESOLATE LIBRARY

Brush aside, the cobwebs of time.
And wander between the pages.
The tales of reality,
Told in fable and rhymes,
Through struggles, and weary ages.
Truth, and perspective will likely vary,
When you enter the walls,

Of VLASINDA’s DESOLATE LIBRARY…

A Podcast for Storytellers, Poets, and more. We feature storytellers, poets, musicians, as well as interviews with people with interesting occupations. Many contributions come from fellow zinemakers.

Find it here:

https://open.spotify.com/show/77iM0H8rO4xW4fnkcM5GC5?si=c4c8799c572049ff
https://www.instagram.com/vlasinda_desolate_library

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Call for Submissions: Liminal Spaces and Non-Binary People

@apebellica 

OPEN CALL
DEADLINE NOVEMBER 18TH

Floors upon floors of empty corridors, incongruent spaces stacked on narrow, wide, long rooms. Doors. Rooms. Windows. Let’s build an hotel. Collettive and dissonant.

In this zine we want to represent the uncanny, the weird and the disturbing. We want to explore strange happenings, backrooms, and distorted dreams. We want to investigate liminal spaces with a non-binary perspective. 

We want to construct an impossible architecture build on paper.

< So… what to send? >

Everything. We ask you to build the elements of this hotel by creating doors, corridors, rooms, warehouses, reception halls and fill them with your work. Whether these are in the form of written text (random thoughts, short essays, stories, playlists, reviews, recommendations or advice), illustrations, sculptures, photographs, mixed media art, memes…

< In what language can I send my work? >

Preferably English and Italian. But all languages are welcome 🙂

< How to send them? >

Send everything in BW, A5 format and high resolution to nonbinaryhorror@yahoo.com

< Ok. I sent my contribution, now what? >

This is a collective zine, which means that once the layout is finished and the file PDF has been sent to everyone, you will be free to print, distribute or sell it without problems.

You have questions? Write to @apebellica for clarifications! 

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ZineWriMo 2024 Day 9: Refill the Well – Tunes

ZineWriMo Day 9: Refill the Well: Listen to & share your favourite creative tunes

Hello and happy zine weekend, my dear zine friends! I don’t think I have ever been so ready for a weekend as I am for this one. My goodness! Today it’s about refilling that well and the tunes we use to do so.

Here’s a screenshot of part of my Spotify ‘feels’ list that I find really puts me into a zone.

What are you listening to?

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That is all for my day eight. Check out this ZineWriMo post for more on the background of ZineWriMo as well as the prompts list. Also be sure to check out the links below to start connecting to other zinemakers.

Joining In

*Hadass – https://hadass420.wordpress.com

*Smita – https://www.instagram.com/smitavkumar/

*ShellBob – https://www.instagram.com/shellbobmv/

*Erica – https://www.instagram.com/erica.engdahl/

*Nina – https://echopublishing.wordpress.com

*Ola – https://www.instagram.com/backseatzzz/

~Let me know if you are participating so I can add you to the list!~

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Check It Out: Queer Zest Zine Fest

Queer Zest Zine Fest
https://queerzestzinefest.carrd.co

Event Date: November 9-17, 2024
Event Location: Online

Spotlighting the work of diverse queer creators from around the world. Featuring virtual tablers, presentations, workshops, and meetups on zines, queer issues, and DIY culture!

This November, around the world, LGBTQ+ zine makers and fans will gather at
the Queer Zest Zine Fest — a two-day all-virtual zine fest accessible to anyone with an internet connection. This will allow folks around the world to meet and exchange ideas where physical limitations would restrict access to these spaces.

It will be a place where queer zine makers and queer zine fans can gather to celebrate zines, queer community, and share stories.

The Queer Zest Zine Fest organizers are a coalition of like-minded queer zinesters with a host of event planning experience under their belts. The organizer team met online in queer zine scenes and decided to join together to make this event a reality!

The fest will highlight the work of diverse queer creators from around the world.

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ZineWriMo 2024 Day 8: Friday Night Highlights

ZineWriMo Day 8: Friday Night Highlights: Show your work(s) in progress

Happy Friyay, zine friends!

I don’t know about you, but I am quite happy that it’s Friday. Feel like it’s been a long week, a long start to the month, and I am ready for some Friday night chill.

One of my goals for ZineWriMo is to pack up a bunch of long overdue mail and get it sent off to zine friends around the world. So today’s focus is getting a bunch of printing done so I can get folding and putting together those envelopes.

How is your Friday? What are you showing in your Friday Night Highlights?

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That is all for my day eight. Check out this ZineWriMo post for more on the background of ZineWriMo as well as the prompts list. Also be sure to check out the links below to start connecting to other zinemakers.

Joining In

*Hadass – https://hadass420.wordpress.com

*Smita – https://www.instagram.com/smitavkumar/

*ShellBob – https://www.instagram.com/shellbobmv/

*Erica – https://www.instagram.com/erica.engdahl/

*Nina – https://echopublishing.wordpress.com

*Ola – https://www.instagram.com/backseatzzz/

~Let me know if you are participating so I can add you to the list!~

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ZineWriMo 2024 Day 7: Make A Mini-Zine Kit

ZineWriMo Day 7: Make a mini-zine kit for someone

Thursday greetings, zine friends! It’s a beautiful day here in this little patch of Australia and a beautiful day for making a mini-zine kit! I decided to make a kit with my friend, Black Wolf’s, daughter in mind. She’s super craft, and I know she loves her coloured pens and patterned paper, so of course I had to include plenty of both!

Have you made a mini-zine kit today? What did you include? Did you make it with someone in mind, or will you give it to a stranger? I’d love to know.

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That is all for my day seven. Check out this ZineWriMo post for more on the background of ZineWriMo as well as the prompts list. Also be sure to check out the links below to start connecting to other zinemakers.

Joining In

*Hadass – https://hadass420.wordpress.com

*Smita – https://www.instagram.com/smitavkumar/

*ShellBob – https://www.instagram.com/shellbobmv/

*Erica – https://www.instagram.com/erica.engdahl/

*Nina – https://echopublishing.wordpress.com

*Ola – https://www.instagram.com/backseatzzz/

~Let me know if you are participating so I can add you to the list!~

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ZineWriMo 2024 Day 6: Work In Progress Wednesday

ZineWriMo Day 6: Work In Progress Wednesday

Hello and welcome to the middle of the week! Wednesdays mean one thing for ZineWriMo, and that is Work In Progress day. I’ll be finishing up the mini-zine I nearly finished on Monday.

What are you working on today?

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That is all for my day six. Check out this ZineWriMo post for more on the background of ZineWriMo as well as the prompts list. Also be sure to check out the links below to start connecting to other zinemakers.

Joining In

*Hadass – https://hadass420.wordpress.com

*Smita – https://www.instagram.com/smitavkumar/

*ShellBob – https://www.instagram.com/shellbobmv/

*Erica – https://www.instagram.com/erica.engdahl/

*Nina – https://echopublishing.wordpress.com

*Ola – https://www.instagram.com/backseatzzz/

~Let me know if you are participating so I can add you to the list!~