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SEPT: An Enchanted Zine #2

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SEPT: An Enchanted Zine #2
Group:Zines, mail art & other cool stuff
Swap Coordinator:TangleCrafts (contact)
Swap categories: Zines  Letters & Writing  Handmade 
Number of people in swap:3
Location:International
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:August 15, 2010
Date items must be sent by:September 13, 2010
Number of swap partners:3
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(pic shows 'The True Story of the Three Little Pigs' as told to Jon Scieszka - a picture book rather than a zine, but close enough to the spirit of the swap!)

Swap description: An Enchanted Zine
Don't worry, you don't need to actually cast a spell over your zine (although you can if you like!). The theme is folk & fairy tales, so you need to find a way to make that your subject. Some ideas:

  • Illustrate an existing fairy tale
  • Write your own fairy tale/s
  • Write revised versions of existing fairy tales (eg get inside one of the characters heads & tell the story from their perspective)
  • Review existing adaptations of fairy tales
  • Talk about how a particular fairy tale has affected you, or your responses to a collection of stories
  • Make up profiles for your favourite characters
  • Imagine what would happen if you could climb into an existing story

The above are all just suggestions รขโ‚ฌโ€œ your zine can include any, all or none of these, so long as it fits within the fairy tale theme!

Please use a minimum of 3 full double-sided sheets of A4 (/letter-size) paper, but you can present in whatever format you like. The easiest is just to fold your pages in half for a 12 page half-size zine, or fold in half again for a 24 page quarter-size zine.

Swap requirements

  • 3 partners = 3 enchanted zines sent & 3 enchanted zines received.
  • Zines must be at minimum 24 quarter-size/A6 pages or equivalent.
  • Zines must be by you - this is not a stash swap!
  • If you took part in the first round of this swap, please write a new zine - I can't guarantee you won't get the same partners as last time!

The obvious bit
You already had to have a rating of 4.9+ with no recent no-sends, 1s or 3s to join this group anyway, so the same stands for this swap. But I will still double-check before assigning partners, so if you have what you feel is an unfair comment or rating, just PM me & we can try to work it out. :-)

Discussion

Moose 07/27/2010 #

Wow ! I would love to join, but i think i won't have the time to do this due to holidays :-((( (well, :-)) for the holidays off course, but :-(( for not being able to participate) Will there be another swap like this one ? I really hope so !

TangleCrafts 07/27/2010 #

Well, this is the 2nd time the group has hosted this swap, so there's no reason it won't come round again (although probably not until next year). Someone else can always host it, if they are getting impatient, though. ;) Also, feel free to contact me when you have time to put something together. Depending on what else I have going on at the time, I might be able to do a private swap. :)

Moose 07/27/2010 #

OK ! Maybe if i do get everything out on time, i may still be able to join, but if not, i'll contact you :-) Thanks.

izohgore 08/15/2010 #

This is just so cool, if I hadn't had so much going on, I would sign-up to this in a heartbeat. I was so torn if I should sign-up or not but, feel it may be too much for me to take on at this time. I'm also doing a special sketchbook nightmare project, something like this could help that project, too. I would really love to do something like this. It would be illustrated by hand the entire zine by hand & written in hand dipped fountain pen.. would take me a bit more time for a project this large.

TangleCrafts 08/15/2010 #

I will probably run the swap again in the future - start working on it now, and you may have it ready for next time around! ;)

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