Join us for our annual 24 Hour Zine Challenge!

This event is the perfect chance to dive into zinemaking with all the fun of being around other creatives, and only a little bit of time pressure!

Gather your ideas, grab some snacks, and get ready to create your very own zine from scratch in just 24 hours!

To join the challenge, just register and fill in our form via Eventfinda here.

HOW IT WORKS:

1. ZINE GENRES & TOPICS DRAWN
If you are participating in person, come join us at the Auckland Central City library on Saturday 24 August where the challenge will be explained and you’ll draw your zine genres and topics from 2.30pm.
If you are participating online you’ll still need to register for the event here on Eventfinda and join the Zinefest Discord server here where you’ll draw your zine genre and topic from 2.30pm on Saturday 24 August.
Scroll down to read more about the zine topics and genres that will be drawn.

2. CHALLENGE STARTS @ 3PM
The challenge kicks off at the library and online. Zine planning and making begins using the genre and topic you drew.

3. THE MAKING IS ON!
If you're at the library, materials and a workspace will be provided for zinemaking until it closes at 5pm. Feel free to take your zine home with you to continue working on them after this time.

If you're participating online, you can keep in touch via Discord in the challenge chat to get feedback or ideas from others.

On Sunday, the zinemaking space will be open from 10:30am until the end of the challenge at 3pm.

4. FINISHING THE CHALLENGE

After 24 hours, the challenge ends at 3pm, where all zines must be submitted.

You can submit your zine by dropping it off to the Auckland Zinefest team at the library, or by sending us a digital scan/copy of your zine via email akzinefest@gmail.com.

All zines that make it to the finish line will be entered into Auckland Zinefest's Best of the Fest competition where one will win 'Best 24 Hour Zine'! The winner will be announced at the Auckland Zinefest Closing Party on Saturday 31st of August.

Zine Genres

Before the challenge starts, participants will draw a zine genre to use on their zine. This is meant to be inspiring! and hopefully not too challenging. Here are the genres that will be in the mix and a little bit more about them:

Perzine
Short for personal zines, perzines focus on the author’s life, opinions, and thoughts. Personal zines can be about the day-to-day inanities, a single life-altering anecdote and everything in between.

Fanzine
If you love something, make a fanzine of it! Channel all your useless knowledge on a topic you love to tell someone how much you love it (and why they might enjoy it too!). It can be as free as writing about your favourite band or show, about your favourite dog at work or the best socks in your drawer.

Comic Zine
Tell a story through the format of comics. You pick the number of frames, the shape, rhythm, bubbles, fonts, onomatopoeia, etc. It can be literal where you draw the passing of time frame by frame or abstract using rhythm, repetition and sequences to tell a story (or give avibe).

Literary Zine
A haiku, a review, a personal essay expressing your inner thoughts. The literary zine is not as scary as it sounds! Literary zines can be fictional, autobiographical, non-fiction, poetry and anything that expresses an idea through writing. You can still use images but make sure you have some writing to make it literary.

Activist Zine
Let’s talk about politics, anarchy, social justice, historical movements and present day issues. You don’t have to be an expert (the personal can be political too!) so you are encouraged to observe your surroundings and explore what’s causing those power imbalances.

How-to-DIY Zine
Share your skills, no matter how chaotic or simple your method might be! It can be about how to cook the perfect pasta or how to darn a sock. These kind of zines will teach (and inspire) you to do it yourself!

Zine Subjects

All participant will also draw a zine subject. The list of subject is based on the Dewey Decimal system used to catalogue books in libraries. Embrace the challenge and use the subject creatively. You can adapt to an idea you may already have to use with your subject or use it as a staring point to create something completely new to you.

The zine subjects are:

Cooking
History
Natural History
Geography
Health & Wellness
Business
Genealogy
Biology
Music
Architecture
Sci-Fi
Biography
Science