Coming Up: Snacks & Fun Times

Hey guys! Here are the deets for our upcoming events:

Sunday 7/13 @ Uncharted Books: Past & Pending Reading: We’ve got a rescheduled date for our June reading this Sunday from 7:30pm-9:30. The following readers will perform vaguely past-themed pieces:

Paul Durica
Nicki Yowell
Elisa Shoenberger
Peyton Stewart

More Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/264182910433290

Tuesday 7/15 @ Black Heart Rock Pub, 9-10:30ish pm, Pungent Parlour:
Your favorite North Center-based reading series is back featuring the likes of SPOCsters Jeff Phillips, Keri Gannon, Alex Nall and Nicki Yowell. Drinks and cozy live lit for all.

More Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1418132361809081

Thursday 7/17 @ CHIPRC, 7:30-9: Zine & Snack Potluck. At our zine and snack potluck, we’ll be swapping treats of both the printed and edible variety. Much like a traditional potluck, feel free to bring a snack to share. But we’ll also be trading zines. And chatting about upcoming projects. And, to boot, get a chance to get to know Chicago’s very own self-publishing collective in the flesh. Stop by CHIPRC and bring your spirit of communion with you.

More Info: http://chiprc.org/ai1ec_event/spoc-zine-and-snack-potluck/?instance_id=5931

See yall out at one/all of our many dazzling July events!
-Nicki

GET INVOLVED + Next Clancy’s Reading is Sun. 6/22 !!!

Have you been going cray cray missing us? Well we’re still here! 🙂

Hey, it’s been a while. Remember us? We’ve been super busy tying up loose ends for the Stamens & Pistils Spring Zine Tour and getting new stuff planned. We have a June Clancy’s reading slated for Sun. 6/22 from 7:30-9:30 over at our old mainstay Uncharted Books in Logan Square. Theme TBD.

Confirmed Readers Include: Paul Durica, Ingrid Haftel, Elisa Shoenberger and Nicki Yowell. Want to get in on the action? Contact us at selfpublishersofchicago@gmail and we’ll let you know if we can find a spot for you!

In other developments….

PDX Zine Symposium: SPOC will be headed back to Portland from July 12-13 for the Portland Zine Symposium in Oregon. We’re also working on a workshop on community for zinesters for the event. Huzzah!

Looking Forward: Running SPOC is amazing and rad in so many ways but also super time consuming. It’s important to all of us to keep it running and strong as a viable community but that takes a lot of energy to be sure. If you’re itching to get involved in something, (I know we’re all spread thin so no sweat if not), please get in touch. Esp. with blog posts, Facebook, organizing, emails etc. And if you have an idea for a workshop/party/event and want to take the lead on it, let me know! I’ll get it all set up.

Stay SPOCly.

-Nicki