In this 2 hour 40 minute Memory Zine workshop playback, you’ll be guided through the process of making small memory zines — using written fragments, notes, and everyday words that already exist in your world.

Sometimes it feels easier to start from scratch than to develop what’s already there.
But there are simple and satisfying organising methods we can use to give shape, form, and order to your existing material.

You don’t need to start afresh — you’ve already said so much. Let’s honour that by giving it a physical home and turning it into something real.

Throughout this recording, you’ll be introduced to inspiring organisational techniques used by writers such as Sheila Heti, Erica Van Horn, Amy Ching-Yan Lam and others. You’ll see how making a small, scrappy zine can reveal your preoccupations, patterns, and narrative threads.

Why “Memory Zine”?

Because anything can be a memory:

• Diary entries

• Words tucked away in old documents

• Drafts

• Emails to loved ones

• Family stories

• iPhone notes

• Shopping lists

• Short stories

• Camera photos

• Work presentations you’d never consider ‘creative’

Get experimental and transform what already exists into a small memory zine. Learn invigorating organising methods you can return to again and again. Make something physical simply because it feels good.

Zines are by nature scrappy and imperfect. We are embracing this liberating ethos to create cheaply, quickly & imperfectly.

In this workshop playback, you’ll be guided to:

• Act on your desire to create, even if you don’t feel ‘ready’

• Work with imperfection

• Explore experimental books and publications made from existing material

• Work with pieces from your personal “archive”

• Edit, cut, and collate for clarity and shape

• Lay it all out using a simple zine template (provided as a digital download)

• [Optional] Print and staple your zine at home — or send your PDF to me for printing (UK only, or with a small fee for international postage)

You’ll ideally have access to some basic design tools such as Canva, InDesign, or anything similar.
Prefer to work by hand? Gather some paper, a ruler, scissors, Prit-Stick and a stapler: that’s all you need.

This playback version allows you to move at your own pace, pause when you need to, and return to the material whenever inspiration strikes.

About this playback version:

The video has been edited to remove visuals of the attendees and any confidential details.

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This playback is non-refundable