What’s On at Glasgow Zine Fest 2026
Unfinished Zine Club with Inkling
In this special installment of Unfinished Zine Club, come and meet Inkling's founders Rachel Cannings and Mo Odling who will be on hand to give advice, share tips and tricks for publishing your creative ideas and get your zines ready for the fair!
Free, booking required
A Standalone Intro to Coding for Complete Beginners by TRANS//CODED
Lecturer and game developer Iona Ferguson leads this workshop on the fundamentals of programming, ideal for those with little or no experience who want to get started with code.
Online event | Pay-What-You-Can
Unfinished Zine Club
Want to finish your zines ahead of the zine fair? Attend this relaxed drop-in session, hosted at Glasgow Zine Library.
Drop in! No ticket needed.
I Made You a Mix!
Revisit the joy of the homemade compilation at this drop-in mix CD making event!
Drop in! No ticket needed.
Blackout Poetry as an Act of Cathartic Destruction
Explore the cathartic art of blackout poetry. With guidance from genderqueer poet and artist Lizzie Brand, participants will destroy pre-existing texts with damaging themes and turn them into a positive piece of art
Online event | Pay-What-You-Can
Glasgow Zine Fest Opening Night Party
Celebrate the start of Glasgow Zine Fest’s weekend programme at our opening party!
Drop in! No ticket needed.
Radical Print Histories Walking Tour
This tour will start and end at The Briggait.
This tour will explore some of the city's rich history of radical print cultures, from anarchist booksellers and worker-run newspapers to seditious print shops, political posters and suppressed languages. People attending the tour will also learn about the surprisingly long history of radical stickers.
Pay-What-You-Can
The Wanderin’ Library Pop-up
Come and explore the archive of The Wanderin’ Library! TWL is a mobile zine library and community publishing resource on wheels that travels to events and unconventional locations to showcase handmade publications.
Drop in! No ticket needed.
Zine Fair
The zine fair is a weekend-long market featuring over 100 makers and artists showcasing, selling, and swapping their zines, prints, artworks, t-shirts, merch, and more.
Drop in! No ticket needed.
Access hours: 11am - 1pm. During this time, mask wearing is required.
Palestine at the Centre of Every Movement
Bringing together educational and creative aspects, this workshop encourages participants to think about how and why Palestine and Palestinian liberation are at the centre of every activist movement.
Pay-What-You-Can | All ticket sales donated to The Sameer Project.
Imaginary Poster Club: Propaganda for a Better World
Every day we’re bombarded by propaganda for capitalism – but a better world is possible. In this drop-in session with artists L.T.Leif and Flannery O'Kafka, you’re invited to make your own posters and flyers to indoctrinate the public with anti-capitalist rhetoric. You can even make some copies to put up around town.
Drop in! No ticket needed.
Cityscapes, Comics, and Collectables: Sequential Storytelling Through Ephemera with Kutty Press
Explore alternative ways of documenting cities and personal experience in this workshop led by Bhavani Bala of Kutty Press.
Pay-What-You-Can
DIY Fandom: Physical Media and the Radical Politics of Gifting
Academic and zine-maker Dr Gemma Flynn explores the rich culture of DIY fan-created gifting within commercialised music spaces.
Pay-What-You-Can
Zine Fair
The zine fair is a weekend-long market featuring over 100 makers and artists showcasing, selling, and swapping their zines, prints, artworks, t-shirts, merch, and more.
Drop in! No ticket needed.
Access hours: 11am - 1pm. During this time, mask wearing is required.
Glasgow Zine Library Pop-up
Come and explore the archive of Glasgow Zine Library! GZL is the year-round home of the festival. Based in the Southside of Glasgow, it has been operating since 2018. It is the largest independent zine archive in the UK, with over 4000 zines.
Drop in! No ticket needed.
Penpals: Make your BFF a Fanzine!
Make a fanzine dedicated to your bestie at this workshop led by writers Anahit Behrooz and Mika Morava. An instant camera will be on hand, so bringing your best friend and doing the workshop together is encouraged!
Pay-What-You-Can
Drop-In Zine Making with Highland Zine Bothy
Join the Highland Zine Bothy for this calm and crafty drop-in session with plenty of materials provided for making mini zines and badges. Explore your own ideas or get inspired by our gumball machine full of prompts.
Drop in! No ticket needed.
Physical Media Swap with playmymixtape
Creative collective playmymixtape hosts this fun and friendly trading event. Bring along the physical media item(s) of your choice – from DVDs to zines, vintage tech to keychains – then trade with something on display, or take a gamble with a mystery item!
Drop in! No ticket needed.
Recipe Writing and Cookzine Workshop with Sean Wai Keung
Discover new ways to document and archive recipes, meals and food memories in this relaxed cookzine workshop, led by poet and zinester Sean Wai Keung.
Pay-What-You-Can
Special Interests: A Powerpoint Presentation Party
To close the weekend, writer and fandom expert Gavia Baker-Whitelaw hosts a celebration of niche interests, featuring fun quickfire presentations from GZF tablers and friends.
Pay-What-You-Can
Building Nourishing Economies
Open to BPOC participants
Build an understanding of the tools necessary to build nourishing economies rooted in the Solidarity Economics Framework.
Location: The Hidden Gardens Boilerhouse
Scottish Land Reform and Resistance
With perspectives stretching from Skye to Sutherland to Lewis, join our panelists in this discussion considering the lasting impacts of land resistance and what the methods of tomorrow might look like.
Location: Tramway 4
Print a Risograph Call to Action Poster
Create bold, two-colour posters using risograph printing to spark climate action in your community!
Location: Inkling, The Cooperage
Dreaming Utopias: Storytelling for Liberated Futures
In this creative writing workshop, we’ll use storytelling and speculative fiction to imagine liberated, just futures rooted in land, reparations, and collective care.
Location: The Hidden Gardens Boilerhouse
Exquisite Corpse Flowers
Drop in, no ticket required!
Inspired by the endangered corpse flower and surrealist exquisite corpse game, artist Jacky Cheetham invites you to play with clay as a way to process, absorb and document the themes, questions and conversations you have explored over the festival.
Location: The Hidden Gardens Medicinal Courtyard
Photocopy Party & Drop-in Zine Making
Drop in, no ticket required!
Glasgow Zine Library will be open all festival weekend for zine making! No experience necessary and all materials provided. The Library’s Palestinian zine collection will also be on display and you can use our photocopier for free to print your own to take away.
Location: Glasgow Zine Library
Field of Zines
Drop in, no ticket required!
Browse climate and activism zines from our extensive Glasgow Zine Library collection. Our archive counts over 4000 zines made across the last 70 years and includes some of the most important expressions of radical self-publishing.
Location: Tramway Foyer
Zine Fair
Drop in, no ticket required!
The zine fair is a weekend-long market of over 70 makers and artists selling their zines, prints, artworks, t-shirts, merch and more.
Location: Tramway 1
Fruiting Bodies
Drop in, no ticket required!
A rolling programme of screenings and audio material, sharing knowledge from academics, activists and artists engaged in climate and social justice, including new work emerging from GZL’s year round programme.
Location: Tramway 4
Nyéléni’s Legacy: Radical Imagination and the Fight for Food Sovereignty
Open to BPOC participants
A creative and political space to co-create strategies for global food sovereignty — through art, memory, healing, and collective action.
Location: The Hidden Gardens Boilerhouse
Biome Stories: Close Observation Zines
Drop in, no ticket required!
Use sensory prompts and reflective exercises to explore the garden, deepen your awareness, and magnify your observations. Zine making materials will be available along with equipment and resources to guide you in making a record of your reflections.
Location: The Hidden Gardens Bothy
Sounding Out the Environment
Have a go at field recording in this hands on sound workshop.
Location: The Hidden Gardens Boilerhouse
Reparations and Climate Justice: Decolonial Ecologies and the Work of Repair
The combined climate and fiscal crises are devastating ecologies and economies globally, especially in the Global South, while protecting the Global North's wealth and its practices of colonial plunder. Join our panellists to look at how climate reparations seeks to chart another path.
Location: Tramway 4
The Year’s Harvest: Sharing New GZL Zines
Drop in, no ticket required!
Each year GZL seeds the development of new zines through commissions, workshops and discussions. Come by and check out the abundance of this year’s programme, meet the makers and pick up copies of their new zines for yourself.
Location: Tramway Cafe Mezzanine
Making Paints from Earth
Make your own natural paints using earth and rocks from around Scotland. You will transform ground pigments into water-based paints like watercolours to make your own natural art kit.
Location: The Hidden Gardens Boilerhouse
DIY Tetrapack Printmaking
Drop in, no ticket required!
Learn the art of drypoint etching using old juice cartons and a pasta maker as a printing press. No experience required, just a dose of curiosity and enthusiasm!
Location: The Hidden Gardens Medicinal Courtyard
Photocopy Party & Drop-in Zine Making
Drop in, no ticket required!
Glasgow Zine Library will be open all festival weekend for zine making! No experience necessary and all materials provided. The Library’s Palestinian zine collection will also be on display and you can use our photocopier for free to print your own to take away.
Location: Glasgow Zine Library
Zine Fair
Drop in, no ticket required!
The zine fair is a weekend-long market of over 70 makers and artists selling their zines, prints, artworks, t-shirts, merch and more.
Location: Tramway 1
Field of Zines
Drop in, no ticket required!
Browse climate and activism zines from our extensive Glasgow Zine Library collection. Our archive counts over 4000 zines made across the last 70 years and includes some of the most important expressions of radical self-publishing.
Location: Tramway Foyer
The Compost Co-Lab
Get your hands dirty, and conduct some simple scientific testing on GALLANT's citizen science compost heap. This workshop will be a great way to explore composting, soil health, sustainability and climate change through the lens of communities, art and science.
Location: The Hidden Gardens Boilerhouse
Biome Stories: Close Observation Zines
Drop in, no ticket required!
Use sensory prompts and reflective exercises to explore the garden, deepen your awareness, and magnify your observations. Zine making materials will be available along with equipment and resources to guide you in making a record of your reflections.
Location: The Hidden Gardens Bothy
Zines for Climate Justice: From Eco-Anxiety to Collective Action
ONLINE / Open to BPOC participants
Led by Solastalgia Zine, this interactive session invites you to explore how zine-making can be a powerful tool for expressing eco-anxiety, processing climate grief, and building collective resistance.
PALES-ZINE: Palestinian Lands Back in Palestinian Hands
ONLINE
Join us for an interactive 2-hour online workshop where we’ll learn through zine-making, conversation, and creativity. Together, we’ll explore the situation in Palestine, discussing the occupation, climate justice, and the role of art in activism in an open and welcoming space.
Climate Justice is Disability Justice
ONLINE
Explore anti-ableist design, engage with thought-provoking zines, and gain fresh insight into how care, activism, and creativity can reshape visual culture and drive change.
Listening for Change: A Sonic Gathering
ONLINE
How can sound help build solidarity? Explore the role of community radio in climate action in this sonic workshop.
Cocoon Radio Glasgow Zine Fest Special
In this special edition of Cocoon Radio, meet the makers behind some of the zines at the festival, and learn about their process. Discover new music too as they take us through a favourite album that lifts them up through hard times.
Paper, Ink, Press
A special chance to visit a working museum of print that has functioned for 200 years and continues production today. You will learn about letterpress methods, both past and present, as well as having your own chance to set type, ink up and print a poster to take home.
Words as Sound World
Explore writing processes that go beyond the page in this writing and sound workshop. You will be guided to generate new writing then go on to create soundscapes using simple and readily available methods. No prior experience needed.
Unlock Your Voice: Art and Activism Zine Workshop
Explore the powerful intersection of art and social change. Zines will become our canvas for activism as we discover the stories, symbols, and messages that matter to you, transforming them into zines that can be your tool for inspiration and change.
Life Hacks for the Chronically Sick
Come for a quiet morning outside in the garden to spend time with other people who experience fatigue, thinking up and sharing our life hacks. We’ll turn our ideas into a collective zine for future reference.