I’m teaching a perzine workshop (and other zine-y news)

Local folks: this March, I’m teaching a free, four-part workshop series and the first session starts this Wednesday! Tell Your Own Story is an interactive writing workshop celebrating perzines: handmade magazines featuring personal memoir writing. Through guided free-writing exercises, word mapping, collage, and word games, I’ll guide participants through writing and assembling their own 8-page perzine.

If you’re in Kansas City, come hang out with me at the Public Library’s Plaza branch on Wednesday evenings, from 6:30pm until 8pm. Everyone has a story to tell — make your voice heard! While participants can choose to attend some but not all of the sessions, you’ll get the most out of the workshop by attending all four weeks. Here’s a break-down on what each session will cover:

March 4: You’ll learn what perzines are, the history of zine-making, and we’ll brainstorm zine topics.
March 11: Dedicated to writing the text of your zine
March 18: All about collage and imagery
March 25: We’ll work on assembling and printing our zines

I’ve taught this workshop before, but never as a 4-part, months-long series, and I’m pretty dang excited for the opportunity to go deeper into topics and have more time to help folks craft their zines. If you’re in KC, I hope you’ll swing by! RSVPs are open for all four dates.

I Love Zines!
I’m not just stating the obvious here… this little news story is that some of my zines and stickers are now available from Billy McCall’s I Love Zines online distro. Billy — surely you know Billy, the very good person behind Behind the Zines, he’s always finding new ways to build up the broader zine community. I Love Zines is his newest project, “a ‘one-stop-shop’ for individuals, book stores, and zine distros, allowing them to easily purchase a variety of zines from a variety of authors.” Brick-n-mortar stores can order zines at wholesale prices for their shelves, and folks like you can pick-up zines from a whole buncha different authors in one place. I am so damn stoked to be a part of this project! Check it out now, and while you’re at it, also swing by the distro Youtube channel and give it a like/follow.


More March Happenings
I’ve got a few more events for KC-locals to tell you about. Zine Club keeps going strong, and our next meeting will be on Tuesday, March 10th at Stray Cat Film Center. This month’s show-n-tell theme is “knives and/or salads” in honor of Caesar and the Ides of March… surely you’ve got some freaky zines about sharp objects and assassinations, or recipe zines about dressing and veggies, in your collections? Surely! I think we’ll also bring back the collectively-made mini-zine… maybe some sorta weird collage salad? I dunno yet, so you’ll have to swing by and see where it lands! And, last but not least, on Saturday, March 21st, I’ll be tabling at Charlotte Street’s quarterly Artist Market. I’ll have some new stuff that isn’t up in the shop yet (cards! prints! And maybe the new zine I create for the perzine workshop!)

And that’s it for now… catch ‘ya later!

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