Beyond Reality Zine @ Your Library

We published our Beyond Reality edition of the library teen zine* last week, but I didn't have a big chance to hand it out since I was sick. So, I am just reminding everyone to make sure you ask me for a copy of the zine and see the great work that our contributors did. The zine pages have a variety of formats, from collages and comics to short stories and book reviews. There's something for everyone! Thanks to all of our writers (Genni, Kaitlyn, Stephanie, Nikki, Nitha, Martha, Sarah, Katie, and me) for making this zine one of our best!!

* A zine is a self-published magazine. Ours is written by several teens and myself, and we publish it two or three times a year on a different thematic topic using the library's photocopier!

Zine-O-Rama

Today was the first day of our four-week zine workshop! If you want to know more about zines, check out these resources:

Websites

• The Book of Zines (an internet directory devoted to zines)
• Wikipedia article (tons of info about zines, and really excellent links!)
• Zine World (a review source for zines and other underground publications)

Documentary

• $100 and a T-shirt: A Documentary about Zines in the Northwest (2004)

Store

• Wooden Shoe Books, an anarchist collective bookstore near South Street (508 S 5th St.), stocks zines. Take a field trip!

Fiction

• Miss Smithers by Susan Juby
• Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger

Nonfiction

• Zine Scene: The Do It Yourself Guide to Zines by Francesca Lia Block and Hilary Carlip
• 'Zine: How I Spent Six Years of My Life in the Underground and Finally...Found Myself...I Think by Pagan Kennedy
• Whatcha Mean, What's a Zine: The Art of Making Zines and Mini-Comics by Mark Todd and Esther Pearl Watson
• Stolen Sharpie Revolution: A DIY Zine Resource by Alex Wrekk