We’re going to a party, it’s a birthday party…
It’s our birthday party, happy birthday Zine Con!

 

You’re invited to join us
October 11th and 12th, 2025
at Goofball Sk8boards for
KC Zine Con #10

 

You’re invited to celebrate (over) ten years of ZINES in KC at KC Zine Con, the Midwest’s DIY Publishing Fest. At KC Zine Con, anyone can come and wander the tables, chat with the incredible artists, learn at workshops and panels, make a whole host of new friends, and get tons of zines! Masks will be required – thank you for helping us make KCZC accessible to all.

Want to share your zines at KCZC? Have an idea for a rad workshop, skillshare, or presentation?
Applications for tabling the fest are now open – you can apply to table on either Saturday or Sunday.

CLICK HERE TO APPLY

Applications will be open from May 1 – June 1, 2025.

 

Frequently Asked Questions

• What do I need to table at KC Zine Con?
  Zines to sell, trade, and/or share for free! KC Zine Con is an exhibition for zinesters, independent publishers, small press distributors, and creators of comix, chapbooks, newspapers, anthologies, tracts, pamphlets, and DIY radical readables of many forms. Although similar, it is NOT a comic book convention, craft fair, or fine arts market. With that in mind, we ask that you use your table to primarily promote zines. If you want to feature other DIY arts you’ve created (such as stickers, buttons, patches, prints, screenprints, figures, etc.) that’s alright, as long as you’re primarily selling zines. The majority of your table’s content must be zines – this means you need to be sharing more zine titles than all of your other DIY art combined. This is a zine fest, let’s keep it zine-y!
• What questions will be on the application?
  On the table application, we will ask for your name, pronouns, email, where you’re from, a description of your zines, a picture to represent your zines on the virtual table page (we recommend it be cropped square, and it must be smaller than 450 x 450px), the categories your zines fall into (perzine, art, poetry, politics, etc.) and any website/social media links you’d like included on your virtual table. We will also ask if you would prefer to table on Saturday (10/11) or Sunday (10/12), and have you confirm that you have read and agree to abide by our policies.
• What is a virtual table/virtual zinester directory?
  Each year, we create a listing on our website of all of the tabling zinesters, along with links to where you can check out their zines. Each zinester gets space for their name, one picture, a short description, and any website/social media/shop links they have. This is what we call their virtual table or virtual zinester directory.
• I want to sit next to my friends; how can I request that?
  Once table applications are closed and acceptance emails are sent out, we will follow-up with a separate form where you can request who you’d like to sit by. Please wait until that form is sent to you to request who you’d like to sit next to, and use the form (and only the form!) to make your table neighbor requests… this helps us keep everything organized. Thank you!
• When will I hear if I got in? When will acceptance letters be sent?
  We are hoping to send out acceptance letters in mid-June. You should know by July 1st at the latest if you have been accepted to table and what day you’re tabling on, or if you’re on the wait-list.
• How much does it cost to table at KC Zine Con?
  KC Zine Con is a volunteer-run organization that relies on your support to fund programming and our annual convention! Since 2018, we have been able to make table fees sliding scale/pay-what-you-can, and we are happy to say that this will continue in 2025. The sliding scale for table payments is:
  Only a virtual table: $5 – $15
  Half table: $20 – $30We will not be taking any table payments until application acceptance letters are sent. We are aiming to send out email notifications about application acceptance in July.