Call for Submissions for a Zines ASSEMBLE Zine!
Zines ASSEMBLE is an event all about zines including an online symposium and a zine jam. We had so many amazing submissions for the symposium that we just didn’t have the space to programme, and people messaging us sad that they’d missed the deadline for the event. We also wanted to find a way to capture some of the thoughts, reflections and experience of attendees. So, we have decided to put together a Zines ASSEMBLE zine!
We’re looking for writing, drawing, collage, creative, textual, visual and multimedia responses to the themes of the symposium (see below). Your submission might take the form of a traditional academic essay, a piece of personal writing, a drawing, a collage, a comic, a how-to guide or a list.
Submissions need to be formatted as A5 pages. The zine will be digitally colour printed.
Please send submissions to zinesassemble@gmail.com with “Zine Submission” as the title. The deadline for submissions is 9th October 2020.
The topic and content of your submission is up to, but to help you could respond to one or more of the following prompts in your submission:
Making: zine making practices; technologies that enable and change zine making; making spaces and communities for zine making (e.g. zine fairs, zine libraries); documenting/making histories.
Researching: methods; ethics; dynamics.
Using: uses of zines in classrooms; the use of zines as data/sources; access to zines in archives and libraries; digitisation of zines; queer use; application of knowledge.
Connecting: networks and communities underpinning zine making, zine research and zine collections; relationships within networks; social dynamics of zine culture.
Bridging: the movement of zine makers into institutions (universities, museums, galleries etc); the movement of researchers into zine spaces; zines as “third space” objects.
Locating: contexts in which zines are made, collected, curated, exhibited and distributed; the establishment of zine libraries and archives, personal zine collections and zines in dialogue with each other.
Feeling: emotional dimensions relating to the making and use of zines; emotions in zine research; zines and identity; zines and experience.
Knowing: zines as situated knowledge; zines as interventions in traditional knowledge production.
Teaching and learning: Zine pedagogy; zine workshops; skills and knowledge sharing; zines as grassroots education/educational tools; understanding realities and making sense through zines.
We aren’t able to pay for submissions, but you will receive a copy if you contribute to the zine. We won’t be selling the zine, and once we’ve sent copies to contributors, any remaining copies will be free (apart from the cost of postage). We will create a digital version of the zine and host this online. We intend to distribute the zine under the creative commons license - Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share Alike. This means that other people can reproduce the zine but they need to make sure to properly attribute it, can’t make money from it, and they have to allow other people to do the same. Anything you send in will remain yours - you can print it in other places, put it online, whatever you want.
We aren’t being selective with submissions but we reserve the right not to include your submission if we feel it is furthering an oppressive agenda, is harmful or hateful in any way, or simply isn’t about zines! If we are unsure about any of the content of your submission, we may get in touch with you to discuss and clarify.
Any questions? Contact us at zinesassemble@gmail.com
