July is International Zine Month! Download this year's flyer of daily prompts over here.

31 Days of International Zine Month 2025 #IZM2025

1 – Make a 1 page zine! Don’t know what to write about? Make it a zine about why you like zines!

2 – Zine Rewind! Dig out your favorite zines and share them! Remind yourself (and others) why they’re so great.

3 – Look up local or virtual zine event or maybe even dream about starting your own!

4 – AmeriZINE Day! Explore marginalized voices in the Americas. Support zines written by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color)

5 – Free Zines! Post a PDF online or leave copies of your zine in public for other people to enjoy!

6 – Zine Pride! Support zines created by LGBTQIA creators. Don’t know where to start? Check out the Queer Zine Archive Project! (QZAP.org)

7 – International Zines! Explore zines from a country different from your own!

8 – Zine Trade Day! Ask someone to trade zines with you.

9 – New Skill Day! Learn a new zine skill like folding, binding, duplicating, or layout!

10 – Write a review of a movie, album, book or podcast to add to your next zine.

11 – Write a letter or a short note to a zinester you admire.

12 -Zine Wiki Day! Add or update listings to Zine Wiki. Support community powered information at zinewiki.com

13 – Zine Meme! Make a Zine themed meme from an online meme template.

14 – ValenZINES Day! Write a valentine to zines and share why you love them!

15 – Zine Cuisine! Cook from a recipe found in a zine and share the results

16 – Zine Distro Appreciation! Order some zines from a zine distro online and share with people about your favorite zine distros.

17 – Zine Collab! Ask a friend if they would like to collaborate on a zine with you.

18 – From Trash to Treasure! Use recycled or scrap materials to make a zine or embellish one.

19 – Variety is the spice of life! Read zines outside your usual taste—like comics, art zines, how-to guides, or perzines!

20 – Zines of the Future! Explore zines by youth or introduce the youth in your life to zines

21 – Zine Library Day! Find a zine library in your area or check out a digital zine library archive.  out or send your zines to a zine library!

22 – How-2 Day! Make a zine about how to do something you are good at doing.

23 – Zine Origin Day! How did you get into zines? What keeps you going?

24 – Slice of Life – Make a zine about events of a single day

25 – Zine Wishlist – Make a list of things you would like to read about in zines, see if anyone has any suggestions for you

26 – Make a clever flyer about your zine to send to your zine friends so they can put them in their orders or distro orders

27 – Lost and Found Day. Dig through old notebooks and finish or revive a zine you never completed.

28 – Zine Playlist! Make a playlist that represents the mood of you zine or share a playlist of what you like to listen to when working on zines

29 – Shelfie Time! Organize your Zine Collection and post a “shelfie”

30 – Take a picture with you and your zine or your favorite zines!

31 – HallowZINE! Remember zines and zinesters that are no longer with us and reflect on how your IZM went this year.

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