Deadline Reminder / Short Run Small Press Fest Recap

[Christina Crow]

Fair Undergroundians,

We wanted to send out a reminder that the deadline for the next issue is coming up! November 23rd is the deadline for the MEMORY themed issue. We haven't had as many color submissions recently and we would really love to see more! We highly encourage contributors that work with color to give a color piece a shot. After all, our covers are open submissions too. All color submissions that are submitted for any issue are considered for the cover, the next could be yours! The full submissions call for the memory issue is here: http://www.stumptownunderground.com/2011/10/issue-21-memory/

In other news, we tabled at the first-ever Short Run Small Press Fest this past weekend! The Short Run Small Press Fest reminded us a lot of the Portland Zine Symposium in feel, ethics and organization. Short Run was held at The Vera Project, an all ages, non profit, music and art venue in Seattle Center. We want to give a big thank you to all the organizers who worked hard to keep tabling costs low and admission to the event free, key ingredients to any independently minded festival (as a PZS organizer, Blue can attest to this)! We met so many people, got a lot of Stumptown Underground zines and information passed out, and had a lot of fun. There were many people checking out Short Run that hadn't even heard of zines, so it was great to be reaching out to so many new people. Thank you so much, Short Run! We will want to go again next year, so keep up the good work. Read the full recap here: http://www.stumptownunderground.com/2011/11/short-run-small-press-fest-recap/

Stay Solid,

Blue and the SU Editors 

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Christina "Blue" Crow

Nanny Extraordinaire

Kids Comics Teacher

Stumptown Underground Organizer - www.stumptownunderground.com
Portland Zine Symposium Organizer - www.pdxzines.com

Independent Publishing Resource Center Volunteer - www.iprc.org