Hi, Zine Librarians: Here's a CFP that may be of interest to y'all. Please share widely! Cheers, *Spencer D. C. Keralis, Ph.D.* spencer.keralis@gmail.com CFP: Academizines! We invite proposals for Academizines, a special issue of Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship. Zines have evolved as a form of scholarly communication that reaches wider publics than traditional academic publishing, and allows for a greater degree of creativity and innovation than conventional forms (Vong, 2016; Weida, 2020). Zines are featured in the special collections of research libraries including Barnard, the University of Minnesota, NYU, Duke, Texas A&M, Harvard, and many others, illustrating their value as cultural artifacts and works of creative and literary art (Darms, 2013; Joseph and Sawyer, 2024), and provide accessible forms of scholarly publishing, community-building, and resource-sharing among our personal and research communities (Etengoff, 2015; Ingram, 2024; Thomas, 2018). This special issue invites contributors from across the disciplines to share their research and creative scholarship in zine form. We welcome contributions in the language, vernacular, and forms used by the scholars and communities the zines serve, and encourage international perspectives, particularly from the global South and other regions not well represented in US-based scholarly journals and archives. PDFs or physical copies of completed zines may be submitted with the 250-word abstract. We’re interested in collaborating with contributors on how to best present their work online, but we encourage printable PDFs to help readers print and share your work. Physical copies of zines will be placed, at the creators’ discretion, in the LaBudde Special Collections and Archives Zine Collection <https://finding-aids.library.umkc.edu/repositories/2/resources/318> at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. We encourage contributors to place their zines in other zine libraries as well. As a community, contributors will have the opportunity to celebrate the launch of the issue and their contributions in a Virtual Zine Con hosted by the UMKC ZineLab in January of 2026. Questions? Email umkcdss@umkc.edu. Dr. Spencer D. C. Keralis and Professor Zach Frazier, editors. The editors are the co-founders of ZineLab, an interdisciplinary book arts lab in UMKC Libraries’ Digital Collaboration Studio. Read the Full CFP <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sJDRH4XxCbIJh-jWjKUKO78HqxoS2BXhM2xvdM65CoM/edit?usp=sharing> Key Dates & Deadlines CFP Opens: August 1, 2025 Deadline for Abstracts: September 15, 2025 Acceptance notifications: September 30, 2025 Deadline for Completed Accepted Zines: November 15, 2025 Issue Launches: January 15, 2026 Academizines Virtual Zine Con Issue Virtual Launch Party: January 31, 2026 _______________________________________________ ZineLibrarians mailing list ZineLibrarians@lists.zinelibraries.info http://lists.zinelibraries.info/listinfo.cgi/zinelibrarians-zinelibraries.info