Create your own zines with writer and mixed-media artist Beverly Army Williams. In this hands-on workshop you'll learn three ways to fold zines and will be offered prompts to generate your own writing and visuals for your zines.

A range of materials will be provided for you to explore this low-fi genre. We also encourage you to bring old magazines or other graphics, writing, or materials as well as any favorite mark-making tools. 

Registration is required. Please use the link below.

This workshop is offered free to all participants, thanks to generous support from the Friends of the Scoville Library and from library patrons like you.  

About Zines

From small folded pamphlets to more elaborate booklets, zines are a way to publish art and information. Innovative, self-published, self-distributed, and small-batch, they have often been the publications of choice for artists, writers, and graphic designers, especially among avant-garde and counter-culture movements. They have a rich history in the U.S. dating to the 1920s, with roots in the amateur press movement and the Harlem Renaissance, and are collected by many museums and libraries.

Zines are tactile, versatile, immediate, and expressive and have the added advantage of being a fun, low-cost medium for creativity. 

About the Artist

Beverly Army Williams is a writer and mixed media artist living in Granby, Connecticut. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Strawberry Moon Magazine, The Ekphrastic Review, Whale Road Review, Uppercase Magazine, and The Dandelion Review. Her chapter “Needle, Thread, Cloth” will appear in the forthcoming book Writing Artifacts. Her solo visual art show “Grimm, Abstracted” appeared at The Thimble Gallery in 2023. She has taught for Tatter Blue Library, Massachusetts Poetry Festival, and Fiber College of Maine, and she has taught writing at the college level since 2000. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico. Her alter ego Dear Ms. Tomato dispenses unsolicited advice in zines. Beverly (and Dear Ms. Tomato) can be found on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beverly_army13/.