Zine Workshops

We have run zine workshops and events around Edinburgh and Scotland. As well as running our own workshops, we have collaborated with a number of local organisations to run workshops, including The Welcoming, V&A Dundee, LEAP Sports Scotland, Highlands and Islands Student Association and Transpride Scotland.

We aren’t currently accepting any new workshop requests.

Edinburgh Zine Library is a voluntary run community organisation and we have a broad set of rules for organising and (co-)facilitating workshops. These include:

• All workshops must meet our safer spaces policy. We do not run workshops with organisations or in spaces which do not agree to this policy – in words or actions.

• We always offer a sliding scale for our workshops - with a lower end of £0. We believe that Zine Workshops should be accessible to all, regardless of income.

• We want workshops to be as accessible as possible, and will prioritise organisations that can demonstrate a similar committment to accessibility – both in physical terms, and in other ways (eg. explicity trans-inclusive workshops, provisions for childcare or attendee’s travel costs, COVID-19 mitigations). Simultaneously, we acknowledge that the precarious nature of DIY organising can often make these feel unachieveable and we are interested in working with partners, including other grassroots, unfunded and diy organisations, to produce workshops that are accessible.

We charge for workshops on a sliding scale and reserve a small number of pro-bono workshops for grassroots, DIY or activist groups. We decide this on a case by case basis, please just send us an email.

If you are unsure if your organisation meets these criteria, or you’ve not come across notions like ‘safer spaces’ before, please get in touch. We aren’t willing to debate, and we don’t always have the energy or resources, but if we can we will happily elaborate on our position and discuss it in relation to a possible collaboration or workshop.

If you’re interested in inviting us to run a workshop for your organisation please get in touch via edinburghzinelibrary@gmail.com