Here’s a list of zine and DIY events coming up in the UK. If you’d like to see which ones we’ll be attending or involved with, have a look at our Events and Fairs page.
If you’re hosting or know of an event we should feature here, please contact us and we’ll add it!
Zine Nation also has listings of worldwide zine fests here.
January 2020
Queer Zine Library cataloguing party
Queer Zine Library is a diy roaming library celebrating LGBTQIA radical self-publishing. The zine library travels across the UK taking up residency in community spaces. If you are interested in getting involved with Queer Zine Library and want to learn more about cataloguing then get involved! Cataloguing is a way for new readers to discover zines in our collections and to track where those zines are currently on display. All cataloguing is carried out by QZL volunteers and we are…
Find out more »TV Will Break Your Heart: TV Fanzine Workshop
“With film you’re in and you’re out and you go on with your life. TV is like a long relationship that ends abruptly or wistfully. One way or another, TV will break your heart.” - David Bordwell It’s time to put all those hours spent watching Netflix to good use. We know you’ve got ~strong feelings~ about TV shows - so do we. Come and gather with other TVphiles and get those feelings out of your head and into a…
Find out more »February 2020
Weirdo Zine Fest 2020 (Leeds)
Weirdo Zine Fest is a self-publishing fair celebrating DIY cultural production by radical and marginalised people. Preference for tables goes to women, queers, people of colour, disabled people, trans people, fat people, sex workers and anyone who is otherwise marginalised. This year’s fair will be held in Room 700, Leeds Central Library, between 12 and 4pm. There will be 30 stallholders, selling zines, art and merch. STALLS FROM: Cross Words Zines - crosswordszines.etsy.com Pen Fight Steven Fraser - Do It…
Find out more »York Zine Club
Looking forward to hanging out with you this year, moving it to a new slot on the first Tuesday of the month to mix things up for people who couldn’t do Thursday’s! Gonna take a little break for January but we will be back on Tuesday 4th Feb The Crescent York so get it in yer diary woo!
Find out more »Wellcome Collection Zine Club 2020 dates
A free drop-in zine club at the Wellcome Collection's reading room. All welcome. 2020 zine club dates are: Jan 8th Feb 5th Mar 4th Apr 1st May 6th Jun 3rd Jul 1st Aug 5th Sept 2nd Oct 7th Nov 4th Dec 2nd
Find out more »LGBTQ+ zine fair
I’m organising a LGBTQ+ zine fair at Brixton Library on Sunday 16th Feb for LGBTHM! Would you like a stall?? Zinesters, distros, booksellers and publishers all welcome, drop me an email to reserve a stall CTownend2@lambeth.gov.uk
Find out more »April 2020
May 2020
Swansea Zine Fest 2020
Swansea Zine Fest is officially returning in 2020 on Saturday 9th May in Volcano - more info and call for tablers coming soon!
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