8th Annual Washington State Zine Contest

The 8th Annual Washington State Zine Contest is now closed.
Winners will be announced in May!

Submission Guidelines
• Participants must be Washington State residents.
• Zines must be created in 2022 or 2023 and be at least 8 pages long.
• Submissions will be read by people of all ages; please only non-offensive content in your zine.
• Make at least 7 copies of your zine. Submit 5 and keep the others for yourself. Sharing and trading is a traditional aspect of zine culture! Entries will not be returned and may be added to a library’s collection or used in promotional materials.
• By submission, the participants grant permission for the library to display, photograph & reproduce the submitted work for publicity purposes and to add copies to library collections.
• Please remember to cite your sources and credit the work of other people for any parts of your zine that are not your own original work.
• Entries may be dropped off at the Washington State Library @ 6880 Capitol Blvd. SE, Tumwater, WA 98501 (call during open hours to be let in 360.704.5221) or mailed to us @ WSL Zine Contest, PO Box 42460, Olympia, WA, 98504-2460
• Entries must be postmarked by February 24, 2023.
• Prizes will be awarded to a winner in each age/grade group: pre 4th grade, grades 4-6, 7-9, 10-12 and adults of all ages!
• Zines will be judged on: Creativity/Originality, Visual and Aesthetic Appeal, Quality of Writing/Readability, and Design/Format/Layout.
• For more information, email Sara at [email protected]

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

2021 Winners:

Congratulations to the creators of these creative and unique zines!


Pre-4th Grade	Grades 4-6	Grades 7-9	Grades 10-12	Adult
Kids Waited William K. Gault Shoreline	Mental Health Matters Catalina Roach Pasco	How to Make a Pokémon Deck Conner Goodsel Pasco	Bus Stop Love Zoe Kelton Shoreline	Mole Mackenzie Lew Seattle

2021 Honorable Mentions

	Pre-4th Grade

Journey of Tabasco Ninja Nolan Pan Seattle	Know Your Bees Manya Saxena Redmond	National Parks of Washington Nathan Xu Clyde Hill
	Grades 4-6

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
	Adult

My Top Ten Public Humiliations David Grieder Seattle	Octopus Gardening #12 Laurie Fordham Lacey	Stormy the Cat Teaches You to Make Challah Chaun Soares Seattle

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.