Zine Course 2024

Take the course in your own time for £50 or buy an accompanying zine kit. Grrrl Zine Fair founder Lu shares 10 years experience zine making, hosting 4 videos covering 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. The three sessions include plenty of downloadable resources and activities within our presentations.

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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.

Course FAQ

  • The full course for £125 includes 3 1.5hr sessions on zoom with Grrrl founder Lu Williams, walking you through each stage of the course. You'll also be sent a zine kit in advance and PDF activity sheets through each stage of the course, as well as mentoring throughout via email. The £50 course is the digital content only, without the live group sessions, mentoring or zine kit. However, you will have a ton of downloadable content including templates and 4 x session videos which include activities you can work through in your own time.

  • Every other week (3 sessions over 6 weeks) we'll join together on zoom for 1.5hrs. You'll have the chance to discuss your work as a group and ask Lu questions. We'll have sessions available on Tuesdays and Fridays throughout October - December. Email hello@grrrlzinefair.com if you'd like to book onto certain dates.

    Session 1 options

    Tuesday 15th October 6.00-7.30pm GMT

    Friday 8th November 6.00-7.30pm GMT

    Session 2 options

    Tuesday 29th October 6.00-7.30pm GMT

    Friday 22nd November 6.00-7.30pm GMT

    Session 3 options

    Tuesday 12th November 6.00-7.30pm GMT

    Friday 6th December 6.00-7.30pm GMT

  • To get the most out of the course, its recommended to attend each session, however presentations will be uploaded for you to look back on in your own time, so this could be an option if you can't attend every session. Its also OK to have your camera / mic off during a session, as most will be guided by Lu, with an opportunity for questions at the end.