Day 1

Programs and Workshops

Day one of Paper Plains Zines Fest features a full day zine-related fun including workshops, panels, zine releases, a movie screening, and punk concert!

Some programs have limited capacity and will require advanced registration.

Check back later for a full programming schedule!

Day 2

Vendor Fair

Just buying and selling zines all day long

11am-5pm
@
Van Go
715 New Jersey St
Lawrence, Kansas

A zine (/ziːn/ ZEEN; short for magazine or fanzine) is a short, self-published booklet.

Paper Plains Zine Fest is a two-day event celebrating and showcasing zine culture. At our vendor event (September 3rd) participants exhibit, sell, and trade their independently-published zines, pamphlets, comix, books, and other radical readables of many forms. Day 1 (September 2nd) will feature programming and workshops at KU and throughout Lawrence. 

Paper Plains Zine Fest is free to attend and all are welcome to come and explore the exhibitor’s tables, chat with the artists, and attend workshops, lectures, and panels. We encourage attendees to bring spending cash to purchase zines from the artists, which are usually priced in the range of $1 -$15. (Many artists will also be prepared to accept payment by credit card.)  

The Vendor Fair will have vendors both inside and outside in the adjacent parking lot.

Paper Plains Zine Fest is an opportunity to highlight the empowering world of independent publishing. Zine culture makes the bold assertion that anyone sufficiently motivated can be an author. Free from industry gatekeeping, and with fewer financial and academic hurdles to overcome on the path to publishing, zines offer agency to artists operating–either by choice or due to systemic oppression–outside mainstream culture. Zines inform, inspire, and instruct across infinite topics, including art & design, comics, poetry, radical politics, personal narratives, intersectional feminism, and queer culture, or dive deep into single-topic obsession and miscellany: there’s something for everyone, provided one isn’t an insufferable bore.