I’m tabling at San Francisco Zine Fest on 9/1!
Image Description Poster of SF Zine Fest drawn Eddie Ahn. Two tidal waves rising at top and purple San Francisco structures making a frame surrounding four people. One is green and reading a zine, leaning against a red person with a zine on their face, a yellow guy jumping in the air, and a blue person drawing a comic. The text reads “SF Zine Fest! Sept. 1 11am-5pm City View at Metreon Free Admission!”
Image Description: A table map of @sfzinefest 2024, on gray background and red font, it reads “Bicoastal Press will be at Table 95!”. There are yellow and red arrows pointing to a black table 95 in the center of the room.
I’m elated to announce that Vicky & I will be vending at San Francisco Zine Fest! It’ll be our first event as Bicoastal Press and I’m super happy that I’ll get to hug her again. I’ll have ten zines for sale, half are brand new and I never sold before.
I haven’t been to California since my first psychotic break in 2007. I’ve always been scared to but I know I’m a lot more stable, happier, and hopeful now. I never tabled outside of New Jersey and New York so I’m super excited that we got accepted. Vicky has given me so much and supported me through a lot of struggles. I am grateful for her friendship and care.
If you’re free Sunday, September 1st, and in San Francisco, please visit us at table 95! I’d love to see you.
The following are the ten zines I’ll be slinging and their excerpts:
Image Description: On a wooden tv table tray are ten zines. Please poetry comic, Event Scores for the End of the World edited by @adelaide_blair, The Story of My Life perzine, For Further Exploration zine, “Here” found poetry mini zine, A Pocket of Daydreams by @skyviewrolodex:, Laced Letters Affirmations, Words I Held for You Open Call zine, You Can Always Move Forward: Narrative Constellations Final Projects, Close Calls Zine Envelope
Image Description: Words I Held for You excerpt. Recto page’s background is gray and at top is a pink illustration of an envelope’s back. Beneath the black text reads “Decorate and fill them up and mail them in the stapled envelope. You can also send me scans/photos of them too: wordsiheld at gmail dot com or use the google form link here and you can read the full zine. I washi taped a brown coin envelope and on top are the three ephemera I’ve inserted in each zine. A maroon classiky tag, a rolodex card with slots you can put objects and ephemera in, and a white risograph cutoff
Image Description: close calls envelope and its contents. It’s all centered around the theme of a mattress and was originally for my Let’s Play: Wayward Sentences class. On a thrifted envelope with a blue illustration of an island, palm trees, mountain, and a cloud, in the center is a black custom rubber stamp message that reads “close calls by Eileen Ramos Edition No 25 of 75 www.eileenramos.com/close-calls/ @wordsiheld”. There will be a unique message on pink lined paper, this one reads in rose gold marker “You are enough. You always have been. And I’ll remind you of your wonder every chance I get.” There’s also a piece of paper with a background of used mattress with my contact info mentioned above, along with my email address wordsiheld at gmail dot com. It lists my snowball constraints, starting from one word, then two, and so on. There are meant to inspire art and writing: “1. sheer 2. absence imprinted 3. lose the hours 4. shadows on the wall 5. end the day absolutely furious 6. it all finally made complete sense 7. just watch where light pours in”. On top are three photos, the bigger on has a blue abandoned mattress with silver blooms. With graffiti of blue marker it reads “Hold On - Sky”. Then there are two smaller photos of the same mattress but blank so folks can write on them. You can read all the constraints and possibilities here.
Image Description: an excerpt of my event score from “Event Scores for the End of the World” edited by @adelaide_blair. It reads “The Last Present Piece Take your most precious book and leave the house. Head to your nearest public park. Once on the premises, move towards the furthest bench.”
Image Description: “Here” mini zine made for sunscream zines exchange. Excerpt has a background of soft yellow. There’s pieces of blue paper, black static security envelope, gray cubes security envelope, red and brown and pink marble swirl, and light blue links security envelope, plus a yellow outside wall with two three windows and their balconies. I used found text from Two Hands Paperie book pages, from 3 Danielle Steel novels, a book on Japanese bathrooms, and a Lewis and Clark historical fiction. The text is spread throughout, it reads “her hands trembling as she held the paper. “You never told me.” ,the recent news was welcome. “And you?” and started to sing. shows every- So long to wait and was”. The story is about a girl and someone else who meet every week at a park and they give her a letter
Image Description: Laced Letters Affirmation mini zine composed of 16 pages. Verso has a gray circle with a border of blooms and swirls, there are four half circles, two top and bottom, inner circle of turquoise blue, it reads in black typewriter font “Life is already hard enough. Please be gentle with yourself.” On the recto is a yellow square with lace half circles and top and bottom. The black typewriter text reads “Always write to your younger selves, your little ones. In every medium & instance. Do all things out of love for you.”
Image Description: Excerpt from Please Poetry Comic zine. There’s a pixelated light pink, purple lines, and blush pink floor. In two purple boxes that look like a video game talk, one in the upper left, the other lower right. First has a pink arrow pointing right, it reads “If I build you a world” Second reads “…would you stay?”
Image Description: an excerpt of “A Pocket of Daydreams” mini zine made by my fictional protagonist, Sky, who is a depressed Filipina American who creates guerrilla art to connect with others. On cream paper it reads in black dymo label tape “ALL I WANT IS TO FEEL OKAY. IF I CANNOT BE GOOD NOR ENOUGH PLEASE LET ME BE OKAY. HOW DO I MOVE FORWARD EVEN BELIEVE IT CAN EXIST”. She went over it with white gel pen in the original for the letters to show more.