BCC ZINE

Please join us at 12:00 on Tuesday, April 10th in the General Bartlett Room in the Susan B. Anthony College Center (that’s just off the student lounge) for the ZINE Publication Reception! This year, we are featuring the musical talents of JUSTIN ALLEN, and an introduction to GRAPHIC POETRY (like a graphic novel, only with a poem – because poetry alone was not obscure enough). Winners of this year’s Submission Contest will be announced and honored. Get your own copy of ZINE 2012, and enjoy FREE PIZZA, LIVE ENTERTAINMENT and FORUM CREDIT!

We are so exhausted from sorting through all the FANTASTIC entries to ZINE 2012 and trying to pick as many pieces as we can possibly publish (we’re maxed out at 66 pages, but if we had a bigger budget we would have easily filled 100 pages with top-quality prose, art, poetry and photography) that we are utterly incapable of making another decision. Just the other day, we were rendered speechless by the mind-bogglingly complex question “Do you want fries with that?” So we are turning to you, our public, and asking you to PLEASE VOTE ON THIS YEAR’S COVER ART. We have four choices, all of them original artwork from our graphic designer Tammara Leminen, who we keep chained in a basement.

COVER #1: “Imagine”

COVER # 2: “You’re My Cup of Tea”

COVER # 3: “Flight Lessons”

COVER # 4: “The Nesting Habits of the Western European Flying Fish”:

Please vote by leaving a comment in this thread. We know it’s not exactly saving starving orphans, but hey, tired editors need help sometimes, too.

Welcome back, fellow BCC students! The publication of ZINE 2012 is still months away, but here’s a little sneak peak: an audio recording of Jahn Kefa’s hilarious “I’m In Love With An Avatar.” Enjoy!

I’m In Love With An Avatar

We are pleased to include Jahn Kefa and Maya Bahl on our staff this year! Both of them have worked on previous issues of ZINE. With their help, we are in the process of reading and selecting prose and poetry selection for publication. So far, we’ve been impressed with the quality of the work submitted to ZINE 2012; bravo to all of you who sent in essays, short fiction and poetry!

We are also pleased to announce that last year’s editor, Joanne Rosier, will be returning in the Spring semester to serve as our Public Relations Director.

The artwork and photography selection process has not yet begun, but the work submitted has also been very high quality. ZINE 2012 is promising to be an excellent issue, thanks to the talented students of Berkshire Community College.

Please contact me directly with regard to late submissions at: bcczine@yahoo.com

Thanks to all the students who sent in submissions for 2012 ZINE! We are overwhelmed by the fantastic response we got to this year’s call for entries! Final count: 10 artwork entries; 41 photography entries; 7 essay entries; 49 poetry entries; and 7 entries in Short Fiction (which I think may be a record). Wow, you guys are fantastic! Thanks again for your interest in ZINE!

Our submissions committee will now begin the hard work of going through all of the entries and selecting pieces for publication. We could still use one or two volunteers to serve on the submissions committee; if you are interested, please contact me by e-mail or come to our next ZINE meeting, which will be next Thursday (November 17) at noon in M217.

Would you like to see your work published in this year’s ZINE, but have no idea how to get that gorgeous 24 x 36 canvas you just painted into a digital format for submission? We’ve got you covered! We will be arranging a day for artwork to be professionally photographed AT NO CHARGE TO YOU, right at BCC. You can have up to six pieces photographed, provided you are willing to have them submitted into the ZINE submission contest. The digital copy will also be made available to you. No changes will be made to your artwork, nor will it be used in any other way without your express permission. Look for sign-up sheets in the K-Building soon!

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Although Zine 2012 won’t be released until April, the work to get it together starts now! We are calling on the writers, artists and photographers at Berkshire Community College to submit their work for publication in the eleventh edition of Zine. We accept poetry, short essays and fiction, digital copies of original art, and photography. There is a prize for the best piece in each category.

Anyone interested in joining this year’s staff would be a welcome addition; we need people to read the submissions and help the committee to decide on which pieces will be included in this year’s Zine. Our current staff will keep our readers updated on our progress with frequent postings on this blog, and we hope you will use this forum to provide us with feedback and suggestions.

Last year’s Tenth Anniversary Edition  of Zine was very well received, and we are pleased to report that only a limited number of copies remain available. If you are not able to find one on campus, Zine 2011, Tenth Anniversary Edition is available on-line in PDF format; http://www.berkshirecc.edu/Zine