Zine is a short for fanzine, it is a low cost publication on a subject of interest to the creator. It can be anything from a single sheet of paper to more complicated designs.
The Zine competition is open to anyone who lives in Dargaville and The Kaipara region. The subject of your zine is up to you, it could be on anything that you are interested in, sport, music, film, skateboarding, dogs, cats or even cows. You choose.
For this competition the zine will be made from a single sheet of A4 paper and folded and cut to produce an 8 page zine, including front and back cover. Instructions above are from a website, which has ways to make other styles of zines from folded paper.
Make sure you include your name and telephone number, so we can contact you if you win a prize. The competition is running from now until the end of the school holidays. Please drop your finished zines into the box at Dargaville Library.
As well as a whole range of prizes, the best zines will be part of the superzine, which will be published in April 2010.
There are a series of links to the right hand side of this site, which have a range of information about zines and how to make them. So get creating and good luck.
Making a simple A4 zine like this is means you can easily photocopy it and then sell or swap your zine with other people. Just follow the guides and put your pictures and writing in the spaces, you can do this on a flat sheet of paper or fold the zine first and then stick your stuff on each page. You can also design you zine on a computer and print out and photocopy as many as you want.
