For the 2nd year in a row, Quimby’s Bookstore will be presenting the Long Arm Stapler Award during the Chicago Zine Fest this March.  Last year, Quimby’s created the Long Arm Stapler Award to highlight accomplishments in self-publishing.  The first annual award was presented to QZAP, the Queer Zine Archive Project.

This year, Quimby’s is calling out to the zine community, seeking nominations for who should get this year’s Long Arm Stapler Award, as well as nominations for two members of the jury, which will select this year’s recipient.

Here is the rest of the info:

Quimby’s Long Arm Stapler Award is an annual honor bestowed upon a group or individual dedicated to self-publishing and the first amendment. Each year’s recipient must show the following qualities:

• enthusiasm for and commitment to self -publishing, which includes active participation at some level of self-publishing.
• cause for inspiration within other self-publishers.
• a high level of quality in output.

The Long Arm Stapler Award should not be viewed as a competition, but as Quimby’s celebrating one of the forms of media that makes our store unique.  The utilitarian nature of the award –an actual long arm stapler- is meant to focus this honor as a form of recognition and encouragement of the work the recipient has done for self-publishing, and as an attempt to bring self-publishers together to celebrate one of their own.

The award’s jury will be comprised of Quimby’s employees, any interested recipient of the Long Arm Stapler Award for the past five years, and up to two individuals nominated by the public.

To nominate a group or individual for either the award or the jury, email us at info[at]quimbys.com, with your nomination and a brief reason for the nomination.

• Nominations for the jury are due by February 15, 2011
• Nominations for the award are due by February 21, 2011
• The award will be presented at the Chicago Zine Fest’s Karoke party at Quimby’s Bookstore on March 25, 2011

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