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Jul 18, 2009 0

Seattle, WA – 07/18/09

Who	24 Hour Zine Challenge
When	Saturday, July 18, 2009 10:00am - All Ages
Where	Richard Hugo House (map) 1634 11th Avenue Seattle, WA, USA 98122 Hugo House was founded in founded in 1997 by Linda Jaech, Frances McCue, and Andrea Lewis (Microsoft). These three writers believed Seattle needed a center for local writers and readers to find a community and create new work. In 1999, Laura Hirschfield described the nonprofit organization: "Richard Hugo House is a two-year old literary arts center in Seattle named after the Seattle-born poet and creative writing teacher Richard Hugo who wrote squarely and poignantly about people and places often overlooked."
Other Info	Comic artists, writers and zinesters hunker down in ZAPP for a 24 hour marathon of zine-making. Registration is required to participate.

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Jul 17, 2009 3

Today: Zine Challenge Preparation

Coffee + Toner = Words

Tomorrow, Saturday July 18th from early in the morning until early in the morning Sunday Hugo House is hosting a 24-Hour Zine Challenge, the opportunity to take whatever is inside your head, even if you don’t know what it is, and turn it into a quickly produced work of written and printed art.

If you don’t know what a zine is, simply put, a zine is a pamphlet. It is the same form used by Milton in his defense of books, Areopagitica, or Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal about the Irish “problem.” To make a simple blank zine, just take a sheet of paper, fold it, and then fold it again, trim the edges, and you have a little (unbound) booklet with eight pages.

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