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The 2012 Chicago Zine Fest will take place Friday and Saturday, March 9th & 10th of 2012! For Saturday’s Zine Exhibition, it will return to Columbia’s Conaway Center as the first two years.
Stay tuned to chicagozinefest.org for updates.
Also, perhaps you attended last years? Fill out a short survey to provide feedback to help make 2012’s extra awesome here: http://bit.ly/kL7sIz
And hey! Here’s some highlights from Chicago Zine Fest 2011:
ChicagoPublishes.com is the online home of the Chicago Office of Tourism & Culture’s publishing and literary programs. It provides up-to-date articles on the state of the publishing industry both in Chicago and beyond, resources for publishers and writers, a comprehensive calendar of Chicago’s literary events, and information on our programs.
DISPLAY YOUR BOOK, JOURNAL, OR ZINE AT THE CHICAGO CULTURAL CENTER. We have a collection box here at Quimby’s to make it easy for you.
One of their main projects is the Chicago Publishers Gallery, a collection of over 2000 books and periodicals from over 125 Chicago-area publishers and hundreds of authors, housed in the Chicago Cultural Center. We’re always looking for new books and periodicals to include, so if you’d like to be a part of the Gallery, please leave your publication in the drop-box at here (along with your contact info), or write to them at info@chicagopublishes.com.
The Portland Zine Symposium aims to promote greater community between diverse creators of independent publications and art. This fun and free event helps people share their work while exchanging their skills and information related to zine culture. Through workshops, panels and discussions, Portland Zine Symposium explores the role and effect of all types of zines.
Time: August 6, 2011 at 10pm to August 7, 2011 at 5pm, Location: Refuge, Portland, OR
For more info:
Also, not 100% updated: www.pdxzines.com
Woman Made Gallery 685 N MILWAUKEE AVE, CHICAGO IL 60642, TEL: 312 738 0400
We’ll paste it in directly from their site at womanmade.org/entryform.html
(scroll down to where it says “Underground”)
CALL FOR ARTWORK:
Underground – Publication Submission (pdf)
Underground – Art Submission (pdf)
Exhibition Dates: July 8 – August 18, 2011
Open to women, transgender, genderqueer, and gender non-conforming people from the international community who make self-published zines, comics, and chapbooks, as well as print, graphic, and comic art in all media. This exhibition will include both a pop-up library of zines, comics, and other self-published works, and a show of installed artworks in all media. Apply to show in one or both exhibition components, but please create separate entries for each.
For publication submissions: Enter one to three publications following the guidelines on the publication submission form (pdf link above). Mail-in or drop off entries only.
For art submissions: Use the online entry system (link below) or for mailed entries follow the guidelines on the art submission form (link above). Include an artist or project statement and a $30 entry fee.
Online Entries Submit jpgs of three of your works on our website.
Curator: Ruby Thorkelson
Ruby Thorkelson is WMG’s Gallery Coordinator. She is also a visual artist working in drawing, comics, book-making, and collaborative projects, as well as a 2010 recipient of a Community Arts Assistance Program Grant from the City of Chicago. For more information, visit Ruby Thorkelson’s Webpage.
Entry Deadline: May 31, 2011
Notifications: June 4, 2011
Further questions? Contact Ruby: admin@womanmade.org or 312-738-0400.
Just this morning I was arranging the free area and I stumbeled across a flyer someone left there, announcing that they’re looking for work submissions:
Anobium is a new, Chicago-based literary magazine that plans to print a high-quality, small volume of work (in the realm of 80-100 pages) for the first magazine. Their flyer said “Terrestrial – subreal – insectile” on one side, and on the other it says, “Printed literature in a digital world (Sustainable in temperatures up to 506 Kelvin.” Sounds intriguing.
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