#ppzf

There are protests also now scheduled for the same day, but if you want another way to resist while connecting with community, learning about analog information sharing, & support artists (local & national), then PPZF is for you!!! 📓📙📘⁠ WHEN: Sat, October 18, 2025⁠ (1:00 pm - 5:00 pm MT)⁠⁠ 📓📙📘⁠ WHERE:⁠ UCCS's University Center - Berger Hall⁠ 1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway⁠ Colorado Springs, CO⁠ ⁠ 🚙 Enter Campus at the traffic lights on Meadow Ln. Free parking in lots 222 & 224)⁠ 🚌 Bus 9: UCCS Campus Stop (End of the Route)⁠ 🚌 Bus 34: UCCS - Austin Bluffs/Meadow Lane or Austin Bluffs/Regent Stops⁠ 📓📙📘⁠ 🆓 Free Entry!⁠ 😷⁠ Masks are HIGHLY encouraged, but not required. We will have free KN95s & hand sanitizer available at the door.⁠ bit.ly/PPZF2025FB⁠ 📓📙📘⁠ (IMG is of PPZF 2025 risograph poster. Art by @kookookchoo Kels Choo, printed by Ladyfingers Letterpress)⁠ 📓📙📘⁠

Paper Plains Zine Fest was a blast! Thanks to those who set it up, visited and inspired me. If you missed it, come say hi tomorrow at Lenexa Spinach Festival!

💌 Up for trades and want some physical zines 📒? Join @pikespeakzinefest’s mailing zine swap! Send PPZF up to 10 zines in the mail and to get an equal amount of new zines back! Check out @pikespeakzinefest for the full details on how/where to send your zines! ✉️💌✉️ Remember to tag your zine posts with the hashtag #PPZF2020 to be reposted to @pikespeakzinefest’s stories, or RSVP for a virtual Zoom workshop Oct 2-4! If you’re a CO artist, be sure to sign up to be spotlighted in feed posts for free by filling out the Feature Form by 9/30! ✉️💌✉️ * * * #PPZF2020 #PikesPeakZineFest #PPZF #PikesPeakZineFest2020 #zinefest #virtualzinefest #zines #comics #ZineSwap #mailinzine #saveusps #zinesters #smallpress #selfpublishing #printisnotdead (at Colorado Springs, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFlHhQDj5Xt/?igshid=o972yjpekpc1

Yayyyy another #ZebraPizzaZine reader! #ThreeAmigosPress thanks you! #Repost @neena_beenaz ・・・ Zine stuff #ppzf #zebrapizzazine #iwanttobelieve (at Power Plant Records)

*💙🧡🖤⁠* You can also support our event by sending a direct donation via Venmo (@KelsChoo), CashApp ($KelsChoo), or PayPal (Paypal.me/PikesPeakZineFest). Please put in the note section of your transaction that it's for PPZF! You'll be credited as a Sponsor (first name & last initial only) in our Anthology. *💙🧡🖤⁠*

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🔹SUBMIT TO THE PPZF 2025 ANTHOLOGY!🔹 Reminder to send in a page to our free anthology! Any form of creative print is welcome, whether it's poetry, prose, comics, illustrations, collage, or something else. Submissions are due by EOD 10/11. 📘📙📓. 🔹Free Anthology!🔹 The theme is: Resistance⚡️ We want your work around you or others resisting: peer pressure, change, temptation, toxic patterns, technological advancements, societal norms, tyranny, and more.  What are times you have experienced opposition, friction, antagonistic mentalities, immunity, or defiance? Whether it's about adaptive evolution, or personal memories, to activism education, we want to share your work! 📘📙📓. Anthology Submission Guidelines: 🔹PG-13 (some nudity ok) 🔹2 pages max 🔹Black + White 🔹Dimensions: 8.5" W x 11" H 🔹0.25" Bleed 🔹300+ dpi 🔹File will need to be uploaded to form (which requires a google account) or added via link. You can also drop off in-person at one of our Zine Clubs. 🔹Please email us if you need another way to submit. 📘📙📓. Anthology Submission Form: bit.ly/PPZF2025Anthology Close: Saturday, October 11th, 2025 (10/11) at midnight (Mountain Time) 📘📙📓. (Note: I, Organizer Kels, have been very behind on sending the copies to contributors in recent years, so I apologize for any late mail & appreciate your patience 😓! We also plan to have Organizer Jennifer take over the anthology distribution this year!) 📘📙📓.

🔸🔸On the 2nd floor (to the left is the Kraemer Family Library), go down the hall to the right past the coffee shop. The library will be open to the public as a quiet space or to check out their *NEW* Zine Collections curated by PPZF's Co-orginzer, Liz Brown! 🔹At the end of the hall is a ramp and a short staircase to the entrance of Berger Hall! 😷 Masks are not required, but are HIGHLY ENCOURAGED! We will also have free masks & hand sanitizer available at the door to the event space.