We run zine-making workshops as a way for participants to share their teenage writing, art and memories - to get involved with the Queer Diary project in a creative way (without getting up on stage, like you would at one of our open-mic diary-reading events!)

 

All attendees are given craft materials plus verbal/visual instructions & hands-on facilitator support to make a zine for themselves.

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We also provide some inspiration - in the form of other LGBTQIA+ zines to look at - and ideas of prompts for for Queer Diary-themed zines.

For example:

• Write a letter to your teenage self. What would your teenage self write back?

• Make a fan-zine about a TV show, band, or anything you were obsessed with as a teenager. Why did you love it so much? How do you feel about it now?

• Illustrate the lyrics to your favourite song from when you were growing up.

• Collage your feelings about growing up as an LGBTQIA+ teen. What were the moments of hope, or excitement, alongside any anger or sadness?

• Write a poem, inspired by something you remember saying, or hearing a lot as a teen.

• Draw a cartoon of a 'queer awakening' or a 'coming out' story: you could use real story, or a fantasy, or tell MANY different coming out stories!

• Design a fantasy outfit based on how you'd have liked to look when you were 14. Would you dress like that now?

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