Zine Course

If you’ve always wanted to create a zine, this is the perfect starting point. Watch our founder share over 10 years zine making experience, talking you though every stage, from concept to printing through videos to watch at home. Download and print our worksheets and templates and respond to prompts to kick start your zine-making journey in your own time. You can also buy an accompanying zine kit on our shop for £25! Grrrl Zine Fair founder Lu covers everything from idea generation, zine history, folding and binding, fonts and layouts, calls for submissions, and finally, getting stocked in stores, fundraising your issue and plenty of printing tips and tricks.

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Meet your mentor

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Meet your mentor ✳

Lu Williams

Your tutor is Lu Williams (they/them), artist, founder of Grrrl Zine Fair, co-founder of Dog Ear and visiting lecturer to institutions across the UK.

Lu studied Art Foundation at Central Saint Martins, Fine Art BA at The University of Oxford, The Ruskin School of Art and The Other MA (*TOMA) alternative art school. For the last 9 years they have been making zines, creating public art commissions, hosting workshop, teaching across the UK and regularly hosting zine workshops including Cambridge University, Nottingham University, Ravensbourne, UAL colleges CSM, LCC, Chelsea and UCL and Sotheby's Institute of Art.

What you’ll learn

A digital moodboard template with orange text at the top that says 'Your moodboard,' an outlined white box with orange border containing three sections titled 'Concept,' 'Mood,' and 'Style,' each in black decorative font, on a light blue background.

Diagram of a risograph printing process. The top section shows a drum with ink applied automatically, resembling spray and print layers. The bottom section illustrates the print machine with labeled parts including a master, color#1, color#2, drum, and ink rollers, indicating the components involved in the risograph printing process.

Colorful folded paper craft projects on a table, with a person's hand pointing at one, featuring bright colors, photos, illustrations, and text.

Top left: Person holding a printed flyer for Queer Utopias event with colorful text and graphics. Top right: Dimly lit bar or music venue with colorful bunting, people seated, and a large screen displaying event info. Bottom left: Crowd outside a vibrant nightclub with red neon signs and colorful interior visible. Bottom right: Two women behind a bar counter at a lively venue, one smiling and wearing a blue cap, the other with red hair, rainbow-colored wall in background.

Four illustrated posters and flyers about submissions for a zine called Girl in Print, with deadlines from April 8 to August 20, emphasizing that submissions are open.

A person wearing denim overalls and colorful shirt looking at pictures hanging on an orange grid display, with pink and purple draped fabric and balloons overhead.