Student Scholars Day Mini-Zines Presentation Information
Mini-zines are a great way to present your scholarship to people unfamiliar with your subject because it is less intimidating than a full length typed research paper. Making a mini-zine also encourages students to flex their literacy skills because they have to condense an entire paper into about six main points and communicate why those points are important in a succinct way.
Mini-Zine Format
Mini-zines are made using one 8.5”x11” piece of paper. It has eight pages including a front and back cover. During SSD, mini-zines will be displayed on the 1st floor of the Mary Idema Pew Library. You are required to have one completed mini-zine to hang, and a deconstructed version available right below so viewers don’t necessarily have to handle the display zine. To make this deconstructed version, students will provide a PDF version of their zine. If you made the zine by hand and it does not exist in digital form, just scan the zine, and save it to PDF in the highest resolution possible.
Mini-Zine Examples
If you are new to zines, that’s okay! It may help to think of zines as a “genre” of the comics medium, and mini-zines as a “sub-genre” of zines. And if that didn’t help, here’s an example from Julie Fiveash, Harvard’s first Indigenous-American Studies librarian. She asked the article’s author, Devasmita Chakraverty, permission to make her research into a mini-zine, and this is what Julie came up with.
Your mini-zine does not have to look like Julie’s (it is only an example), so here’s more of a blank slate to get you started and used to the mini-zine format: a mini-zine about how to make a mini-zine from the University of Brighton!
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Mini-Zine Submission
To submit your mini-zine, fill out the online registration form and attach a PDF of your zine (be sure it is saved in the highest resolution possible). You must also turn in a hard copy of your zine to the OURS office by April 2, 2025. The OURS office is located on the second floor of the Mary Idema Pew Library on the Allendale campus. You will be given a form to fill out with your name, your email (in case we need to reach out to you), title of your zine, and faculty mentor. You can retrieve the hard copy of your zine from the OURS office (LIB 230) by the Friday after SSD.