Sunday, October 24, 2010
1 p.m. - 7 p.m.
The Great Hall
1087 Queen Street West
Toronto

Canzine West

Saturday, October 16, 2010
1 p.m. - 7 p.m.
W2 Storyeum
151 West Cordova Street
Vancouver

Cost: $5 at the door. Includes a copy of the fall issue of Broken Pencil.

Giant Zine Fair: Over 150 zines from across Canada on display and for sale! The heart of the event, indie publishers both in print and online come from across the country and the continent to show their wares! Be amazed at the creativity, ingenuity, and sheer weirdness!

Plus: Workshops, readings, panel discussions and assorted strangeness.

The Main Street Magazine Tour is a free event that invites participants to explore the local literary landscape, set against Vancouver's eclectic Main Street neighbourhood. Known previously as the Main Street Literary Tour, the event now shines a spotlight on the arts and culture "magascene," with presentations by FRONT, OCW Magazine, Ricepaper, Room, Sad Mag and subTerrain-all Vancouver-based publications. The tour starts at the Rhizome Café.

Literary Mash-ups
By Daniela DiStefano

What do you get when you cross 19th-century English literature with 21st-century biological monstrosities and ultraviolent sea serpents? You get something like Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters -- the latest in literary mash-ups.

Mash-ups are older than as Jane Austen herself. Although the formats vary -- music, film, literature, and art -- the process is mainly the same. Elements of different source materials, whether a classic novel or a widely recognized play, are mixed together to create a new composition.

Notebook Magazine is a quarterly periodical offering a collection of Edmonton artists and writers. Pieces are inspired by the city itself and displayed in the glossy portfolio Notebook offers. Notebook Magazine has published as a quarterly magazine for over ten issues and now needs your help to be sustainable into the future.

The Notebook Magazine Gala and Fundraiser will feature a silent auction from local artists, including a prize pack of each issue of the magazine. Food by locals Cafe Leva and Alley Kat brewery.

Briarpatch Magazine is an grassroots, independent current affairs magazine based in Canada. Although normally available by paid subscription, the Briarpatch website also features several full-text  articles from each issue for free perusal.

The Ryerson Review of Journalism is an award-winning magazine that twice a year casts an unflinching look at the practice of journalism in Canada. It is produced by final-year students in the Magazine Stream at the School of Journalism, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.

The spring issue this years features a profile on Robert Hurst and features DIY journalism.

The summer issue asks the tough question if Quebec press ignited a social crisis over its reporting on minority rights.

Come to the launch party to meet the students who put together the magazine.