It’s finally here! #CZF2020! Here’s some final tips of all the ways to participate:

Share your zines and engage with other zinesters on social media using hashtag #CZF2020!

We’re encouraging people to post about their zines to social media with the hashtag #CZF2020. If you’re posting on Instagram, we even have a few gif stickers for the fest if you search (you guessed it) #CZF2020. Besides your own zines, you’re encouraged to share zines that you love, zine videos, zine resources — really, anything ziney goes! Comment, like, follow, retweet, subscribe, and just generally give virtual high fives to other zinesters. Maybe even propose a mail trade or buy some stuff outright!

Explore and add yourself to the Zinester Directory!

It’s a spreadsheet of information on zine makers and distros, and you are encouraged to add your own entry! You can search by location, tags, name lots of possibilities for finding new zines! To get in the directory takes only 10 minutes, and it’s free: it’s just a Google form that asks for some basic info: a bit about you, a bit about your zines, and deets on how you’d like to be contacted. It already has 150+ entries!

Join the Zinester Directory: https://bit.ly/ZinesterDirectoryForm

Explore the Zinester Directory: https://bit.ly/ZinesterDirectorySpreadsheet

Tune in to our programing on Youtube!

All our weekend programming will be hosted on our Youtube channel: youtube.com/c/chicagozinefest

All events were pre-recorded for quality and privacy purposes, however, we encourage you to tune in when they premier to watch together and chat with other viewers. If you can’t make the premier, the videos will still be hosted on our YouTube page afterwards.

Friday, May 15

7 p.m. – #CZF2020 Zine Reading

Some of our favorite zinemakers from Chicago and beyond will share their work. Readers include: Jessica Checkeroski, Mattie Ganson, Jon Mastantuono, CHema Skandal, Dena Springer, and Talie Zrihen. CZF Organizer Alex Nall will MC this event.

Saturday, May 16

1 p.m. – Meet Your CZF Organizers!

Get to know the folks who work behind the scenes year-round to organize the annual Chicago Zine Fest and our community zine programming: Alex Nall, Anna Jo Beck, Cynthia E. Hanifin, Tim Inklebarger, Dan Kittaka, Elliott Moore, and Emily Steffen.

Get to know the folks who work behind the scenes year-round to organize the annual Chicago Zine Fest and our community zine programming: Alex Nall, Anna Jo Beck, Cynthia E. Hanifin, Tim Inklebarger, Dan Kittaka, Elliott Moore, and Emily Steffen. 2 p.m. – Yoga for Zinesters with Heather Anacker.

Join us for a gentle and lighthearted yoga class. We’ll stretch out our bodies and do some guided meditation and maybe even a few leg lifts. Bring a yoga mat or towel, a pillow to sit on, and an open mind. Heather Anacker is a Zinester and a Certified Yoga Instructor who currently lives in Chicago; her zines are available at Quimby’s.

Join us for a gentle and lighthearted yoga class. We’ll stretch out our bodies and do some guided meditation and maybe even a few leg lifts. Bring a yoga mat or towel, a pillow to sit on, and an open mind. Heather Anacker is a Zinester and a Certified Yoga Instructor who currently lives in Chicago; her zines are available at Quimby’s. 3 p.m. – The “Oh no, please no, not another prompt list” Prompt List.

Overwhelmed by prompt lists? Cartoonist and zinester Elias Gonzalez feels your pain and has a solution in the form of a new prompt list!

Overwhelmed by prompt lists? Cartoonist and zinester Elias Gonzalez feels your pain and has a solution in the form of a new prompt list! 4 p.m. – A Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Quimby’s with Liz Mason.

Quimby’s Bookstore manager Liz Mason provides a behind-the-scenes tour of the mirth and mayhem of Chicago’s zine mecca. Check out the shop online at quimbys.com.

And a big thank you to Caroline Cash for our #CZF2020 poster series.