Grrrl Zine Fair is a community interest company started by artist Lu Williams, as a way of bringing together and supporting feminist zine makers.

Calling all artists and zine makers or wannabe zine makers with an amazing idea!

We wish to invite you to our home in Southend-on-sea to take part in a weeks residency, a place for learning, chatting, making, communing, thinking, researching, playing!

This is a PAID RESIDENCY for 4 people 21st-25th July! Thanks to generous support @aceagrams 💓🫶

You’ll be staying at our fellow Southend friends @metalsouthend in our local Chalkwell Park, over looking the sea and working at @theoldwaterworks where we have our studios, Zine Library and printing facilities.

All welcome to apply, we’d especially like to support working class, queer, women, trans, non-binary, global majority, disabled and neurodivergent folks, who may have found it difficult to gain institutional support. As a queer, neurodivergent, working class led project, we appreciate marginalised groups are not represented enough in the arts and find it hard to get your foot in the door.

Send us:
Max 3 page PDF, which must include:
• Name, pronouns, where you’re based, email, access requirements, website and socials
• Short artist bio 200 words max (or equivalent short
2 minute video)
• 4 images of previous work/projects that are relevant or exemplary of your style or links to film work no longer than 2 minutes
• 200 word plan for what you’d like to explore during the residency (or equivalent short 2 minute video)
We also highly encourage you to:
•A list of 3 zines from our library that you’d like to use as research during this residency, included in your plan, please see https://library.grrrlzinefair.com/

✨ to submissions@grrrlzinefair.com ✨

Applicants will be informed of our decision by the 9th June 2025. Feedback will be available on request.

Please note this op is not open to those in education at the residency start date. This op is open to those who have not taken part in a Grrrl residency at The Old Waterworks Studios before.

We will be announcing an online residency, for those unable to attend in person and international applications, shortly + commission opportunities + our next zine fair! ✨💓📝✂️