Zine Workshop!

Event date:
Saturday, May 30
Event time:
4:00pm-5:00pm
Location:
Brower Center, Kinzie Room
Audiences:
Booksales:
Book Society, in the lobby of the venue

Self-publishing your work can be empowering and uplifting! We’ll briefly cover zine history and culture, then dive in to writing an 8-page microzine. What limitations and freedoms are afforded by a short zine format? Who is your audience and how does that affect what you write? Is there a narrative arc?

Participants will create their own one-page zine that they can copy easily and fold and distribute!

Dan Alter

Dan Alter’s poems, reviews and translations have been published in journals including Field, Fourteen Hills, and Zyzzyva; his first collection My Little Book of Exiles won the 2022 Cowan Poetry Prize. A volume of translations Take a Breath, You’re Getting Excited, from the Hebrew of Yakir Ben-Moshe, was published by Ben Yehuda Press in September 2024, and Hills Full of Holes, a second collection of poems, by Fernwood Press in March 2025. He lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley. He works at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley.

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