zines

This month’s snail mail society envelopes are on their way to mailboxes all over the world! As I checked off each address from my snail mail planning spreadsheet, I noticed that this month’s newsletter is the twelfth I’ve sent since starting this project… the snail mail society is almost a year old, y’all! To paraphrase Shania Twain, “looks like we’ve made it, look how far we’ve come now zinesters” (I rewatched I ❤️ Huckabees for this month’s star-exclusive mini, so Shania has been top-of-mind.) I can’t believe almost a year has flown by since I started this series of newsletter zines. I’ve gotta plan something cool for May because a year […]

Local folks: this March, I’m teaching a free, four-part workshop series and the first session starts this Wednesday! Tell Your Own Story is an interactive writing workshop celebrating perzines: handmade magazines featuring personal memoir writing. Through guided free-writing exercises, word mapping, collage, and word games, I’ll guide participants through writing and assembling their own 8-page perzine. If you’re in Kansas City, come hang out with me at the Public Library’s Plaza branch on Wednesday evenings, from 6:30pm until 8pm. Everyone has a story to tell — make your voice heard! While participants can choose to attend some but not all of the sessions, you’ll get the most out of the workshop […]

Hey y’all! We’re almost halfway done with February, which means that another batch of snail mail society goodies are making their way through the postal system and to mailboxes all over the country (and one’s even traveling all the way to Switzerland!) ⋆｡°✩ I think this month’s issue of the catmothcrow chronicle looks especially lovely, as the collages have a sort of grunge-y fairytale feel to them. The newsletter features my picks for the Oscars, a spotlight on one of my favorite artists — you’ll have to read the zine to know just who it is that I’m spotlighting, but I’ll give you a hint: I think of them as my […]