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The Zine Machine: On Zine Creation and Publication Workshop at MWC

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Join Morgan Webb (RatTrap Magazine) and Melissa Conway (Recycled Valentine Press) for a 4-week workshop where you’ll learn how to turn your human brain into a ZINE MACHINE!! Participants will be guided through the full zine creation process from coming up with an idea and finding your medium, all the way to publication and distribution. Morgan Webb and Melissa Conway will share a variety of zine-making techniques and bring insight from their own publications as well as insight from other local artists in the community. Pitch your zine to the Midwest Writing Center for publication during the showcase at the end of the workshop! MWC will publish 2-3 zine projects.

Join us for our Annual Meeting August 5 at Butterworth Education Center

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MWC’s offices will be closed through August 3 as we’re celebrating Sarah’s MFA graduation. Please join us in wishing her a big congratulations!

Join us for the MWC Annual Meeting – Wed. 8/5, 6pm, at the Butterworth education Center (701 12th Ave, Moline, IL 61265). The event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be available.

This year’s Annual Meeting invites you to participate in a community-wide conversation about why writing matters. We’ll have leaders across all professions as well as MWC Board Members and staff, but we want you to be part of it, too. And, of course, learn about the last year at MWC and see what’s ahead.

YEW Intern & Staff Showcase – Thursday 7/23 at RIPL Watts-Midtown Branch, 5:30 p.m.

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MWC celebrates 21 years of The Young Emerging Writers Program (YEW) with a showcase of selected YEW 2026 interns and staff on Thursday, July 23 at the RIPL Watts-Midtown Branch.

The event will start at 5:30pm with a social, followed by the Young Emerging Writers showcase, followed by readings from a selection of this year’s YEW interns and staff, previewing THE ATLAS 21 literary magazine, which the program will publish on 8/13 (pre-orders coming soon). Back issues of The Atlas will be available for $5/copy, as well as other MWC Press books.