Welcome to Zinedom!

Our Mission:

Starting December 2017, fans have pooled their resources and we now have access to 2,000 scanned fanzines and permission from multiple authors to assist them in converting their paper fanzines stories into something they can post online. First up are Leslie Fish and Connie Faddis, who are of some fame in the Kirk/Spock fandom.

To answer a common question, yes, we are aware of the University of Iowa and other projects to preserve fanzines. Morgan Dawn, our main organizer, is in the process of contacting authors and artists that have worked with those projects to see if they have interest in and need assistance with converting their fanfiction for online posting. For now, the two archives that we think that most of the authors will select are the K/S Archive and Archive of Our Own (AO3).  

This is not an OTW sponsored project. We’re simply doing what fans have always done: connecting fans who need help with those fans who want to help.

What You Can Do:

The bulk of this project will be copy-editing OCRs (Optical Character Recognition, a program for converting PDFs back into text) so they are as error-free as possible. This means taking a text doc and making sure there aren’t “1"s when there should be "i"s and so on. We’ll have a PDF of the original text for you to refer to as you go.

To help in this effort, we are compiling lists of author’s works and their permissions: what we have, what we need scanned, put through OCR, and edited. This will be a continuing process as more authors get in touch.

Further along, we may need people to help authors set up fanfic accounts and post to them.

Here’s our contact/volunteer survey link: https://goo.gl/forms/sKWJApJfFyRd6WH93

We’re interested in what fanzine era authors you’d like to see post their fic online. Please let us know if you have any specific stories or authors you want to get out there, and come help us bring them to the newest chapter of fandom! Contact us via this form: https://goo.gl/forms/sKWJApJfFyRd6WH93