7th Annual Washington State Zine Contest
Announcing our 2021 Winners:
Congratulations to the creators of these creative and unique zines!
(Links to digitized copies of these zines will be posted on this site as soon as they are available.)
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| Pre-4th Grade | Grades 4-6 | Grades 7-9 | Grades 10-12 | Adult |
| Kids Waited William K. Gault Shoreline |
Mental Health Matters |
How to Make a Pokémon Deck Conner Goodsel Pasco |
Bus Stop Love Zoe Kelton Shoreline |
Mole Mackenzie Lew Seattle |
2021 Honorable Mentions
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| Journey of Tabasco Ninja Nolan Pan Seattle |
Know Your Bees Manya Saxena Redmond |
National Parks of Washington Nathan Xu Clyde Hill |
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| Barney’s Way Home Paige Johnson Seattle |
The Chinese Zodiac: What Is It? Tracy Zhu Mill Creek |
Nidoto Nai Yoni: Let It Not Happen Again Dashwood Davis Bainbridge Island |
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| My Top Ten Public Humiliations David Grieder Seattle |
Octopus Gardening #12 Laurie Fordham Lacey |
Story the Cat Teaches You to Make Challah Chaun Soares Seattle |
Physical copies of the winning zines and honorable mentions will be added to the collections at the Washington State Library, The Seattle Public Library, and the Timberland Regional Library. We will also be digitizing these zine so that people across our state (and beyond!) can have access to these wonderful zines created by Washingtonians.
Try Washington State Digital Collections History Resources online, the Library of Congress Digital Collections, or visit the Washington State Library, Washington State Archives and/or your local library to find fantastic materials and inspiration for your creation!
A Few Zine Libraries in WA State
How to Make a Zine Video
Past Winners
2020
- Pre-4th Grade
Rocks Everywhere by Manya Saxena - Grades 4-6
The Adventure of Unihorn by Kaylee Klebanow - Grades 7-9
This Zine is Anti-Racist by Miguel Martinez - Adults
Together Apart by Questen Inghram and Ava Stuller
Links to digitized copies of these winning zines will be added to this site and to the Washington State Library catalog after the zines are digitized.
2019
- Grades 4-6
Savage Dolphin: The Real Deal by Jayden Kammeyer - Grades 7-9
Tribes: The Cowlitz by Katya Rukhlinskaia - Grades 10-12
The Journey by Kaylee Lâm - Adults
Love Letter to Harry Allen by Elijah Janka
Honorable mentions
- Grades 4-6
I’m a Trans Girl
Ways to Be Kind to Bees: A Bee-Zine by Lexi Brewer - Grades 7-9
Overheard Conversations by Mera Foster - Grades 10-12
The American Education System by Adrianna Collie
Trauma, Training, and the Foster Care System by Katheryn Hilfiker - Adult
Loss of Symmetry: Symmetry of Loss by Daisye G. Orr
A Mini Foraging Guide for Western Washington by Anna Moore
2018
Grades 4-6 Mount Helens! by Pranav Dasan
Grades 7-9 1910 Stevens Pass Train Disaster by Sonja Rasmussen, Kaelyn Van Duzer, and Morgan Bong
Adult Mountain Devil by Marc Myrsell
2017
Grades 4-6 Hanford: The complex legacy left behind, Mia Widrow
Adult Answering Columbia’s Call : Seattle’s War Relief Bazaar of 1917, Lisa Oberg
2016
Grades 4-6 The Grand Coulee Dam, Anna Riley
Grades 7-9 Women’s Rights & Wonder Women from Washington’s Past, Janisa Cook
Grades 10-12 Pike Place Market, Adrian Poslednik
Adult 721 Seventeenth Avenue : A Love (Hi)Story, Amanda Demeter
2015
Adult Glore & Wunder : Adventures and Amusements in Washington State History by Susanna Gowing