SF Zine Fest, Oakland, CA (2026)

06/20/2026

Announcing our SFZF 2026 Guest of Honor: V. Vale!!! Writer and publisher of the punk tabloid Search & Destroy and numerous other titles under RE/Search, Vale has defined and documented the punk scene and its fringes since punk began. You may have seen him in North Beach at his zine table outside City Lights Booksellers, which gave him funding to start publishing in 1977. Or you may have caught him as an exhibitor at past SF Zine Fests, interviewed in documentaries about the scene, or quoted and cited in articles about punk bands, counterculture, your favorite artist, philosophies for living your way, or zines themselves.

We’re so proud and excited to have Vale as our Guest of Honor! Explore the RE/Search catalog at www.researchpubs.com and learn more about Vale: www.instagram.com/vale_research or www.facebook.com/researchpubs.

Official SFZF poster and merch made by Vale coming soon! And the full SF Zine Fest schedule will be announced this summer with our annual Thinking Captions Zine Reading featuring Vale and his three handpicked invited guests (who are also making us drool, announcing them soon!) and plan to attend our annual Guest of Honor Q&A at the fest on Sunday, September 6.

[Image description: Slide 1 features large text, “Announcing our 2026 San Francisco Zine Fest Guest of Honor: V. Vale of RE/Search” with thumbnail images featuring four of his zine covers. In the footer is the SFZF logo and the text, “Since 2001. . . www.sfzinefest.org. (This footer is the same across all slides.)]

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06/04/2026

We had a blast at the SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Free Community Day on May 24! We saw 1900+ lovely visitors, met 400 youth and adults who interacted with our zines and zine-making supplies, and heard lots of excitement about and zine making! We displayed our SFZF zine library (a tiny portion of it) for browsing, taught folks how to create and fold their own zines, and talked about zines A LOT (our favorite subject).

Photos by our SFZF co-organizer Solitaire! www.instagram.com/all.in.tv.sf

Did you know that SFZF tables and teaches zine-making workshops at schools, other zine events, and community events throughout the Bay Area and Sacramento area?✏️ Contact us through the SFZF website -- or come to Zine Fest and let's talk about it!

[Image description:

Slide 1: White text on black background reads, “Check out SFZF’s photos from the SFMOMA Free Community Day, May 24, 2026” with the SFZF logo in white. A photo on the right shows SFZF’s “Save the Date” flyer for the 2026 SF Zine Fest on September 6, held up by a mannequin hand and surrounded by zines on a table.
Slide 2: Black text on white background reads “SF Zine Fest tabled at SFMOMA on May 24, 2026!” and features a photo on the left of zines on display and a photo of the entry signage on the right.

Slide 3: Red text on the photo of zines displayed on a long table reads, “SFMOMA Free Community Day!” with black text on white background vertically up the right side that reads, “Zine Library & Zine-Making Supplies, May 24, 2026 ]

05/22/2026

Come visit us! SF Zine Fest will be tabling at SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on Sunday, May 24 for their next Free Community Day! We’ll be in the “Spotlight on Collectors” area from 11 a.m.–3 p.m. in the White Box (Floor 4). 🎨

The museum suggests RSVPing for free tickets on their website at www.sfmoma.org/free-days/ (click on “Community Day tickets,” not the Family Day tickets) or linktr.ee/sfzinefest. We’ll have a portion of our SFZF zine library to share and some SFZF zinemaking supplies!

From SFMOMA:
Free Community Days offer free museum-wide admission to all visitors. Combined with a wide range of immersive activities and performances inspired by the latest SFMOMA exhibition, these Free Community Days highlight the extraordinary creativity of local artists and community organizations. Mark your calendar for the next one, and enjoy a unique opportunity to learn, create, and connect with fellow community members!

May 24, 2026: See the world through the eyes of the collector at this special free community day in celebration of the opening of Matisse’s Femme au chapeau: A Modern Scandal and our newly reimagined Fisher Collection galleries.

[Image description: Text over a photo of the SFMOMA museum building reads, “Visit us at SFMOMA Free Community Day! SF Zine Fest will be tabling! Sunday, May 24, 11 a.m.–3 p.m.” with the SFZF logo.]

05/16/2026

Apply for !!! Open May 15 through June 14 at midnight. Fill out your application at the links in www.sfzinefest.org or linktr.ee/sfzinefest! WE’RE SO EXCITED⚡

We have two versions of the application form — one requires a gmail account for uploading photos of your zines, and the other one doesn’t require any login. (You’ll email us photos of your zines separately).

A panel of folks will review applications and curate a really awesome bunch of zine creators for our 25TH ANNIVERSARY SF Zine Fest!! Give us some time, as we get hundreds of applications every year and it’s next-to-impossible when everyone’s zines are so so so cool.

Want your application to get noticed? Tell us A LOT about your zines! Send pics of your zines, talk about your zine making process, tell us what zines mean to you, describe which zines you’ll be exhibiting if you get in. We love zines.

Btw, the application is online, not by mail! This post shows a letter just for fun. 🙃🖥️

[Image description: Slides 1 through 3 show text reading “Applications for SFZF 2026 are open! May 15 through June 14” with the SFZF logo in the lower left corner and a handwritten envelope addressed to SF Zine Fest with “Application enclosed!” on it.
Slide 2 includes instructions for how to apply:
Visit www.sfzinefest.org or linktr.ee/sfzinefest
Click the link on the homepage “Apply here”
The application is an online form with questions about you and your zines
Fill it out with details about the zines you create and providing links/photos to show your work
Click to submit and confirm in your email!]

05/09/2026

Our 25th Annual SF Zine Fest is coming September 6, 2026! Find us at our new venue, the Hibernia at Market and Jones near Civic Center BART. Get ready…this is gonna be so cool.

👀Check back to find out when we’re opening the applications and announcing our guest of honor — very soon!

📩Or join our mailing list to get alerts when applications open! Sign up at sfzinefest.org.

⚡Volunteer opportunities will be announced later this summer

💲SFZF is always accepting donations to keep our fest going! Please support us through our donation link at linktr.ee/sfzinefest.

[Image description: Slide 1 of 2 shows an SF Zine Fest “Save the Date” poster on a bulletin board with old posters torn off in many layers. Text reads, “25th Annual San Francisco Zine Fest. Sunday, September 6, 2006 at the Hibernia, new venue! 1 Jones Street, San Francisco, California 94102. sfzinefest.org

Slide 2 of 2 shows a map of the 2026 SF Zine Fest location, the Hibernia, with the same background, contact info, and address as Slide 1.]

04/26/2026

Last chance to apply for our SFZF internships! Thanks to everyone who has applied. 🥰 Apply at linktr.ee/sfzinefest. Closing the form this Sunday at 11:59 p.m.!

04/12/2026

⚡New SFZF internship?!!⚡Help make the 25th annual SF Zine Fest happen!

The organizing crew is looking for zine enthusiasts to help in various roles for planning the fest. More info on the “SFZF Internship Interest Form” on linktr.ee/sfzinefest, or this direct link to the form: https://forms.gle/vgQFqbWJxe6LH4Vi6. Fill it out!

Curious who you’ll be working with❓ SFZF is a non-profit and is currently run by the six of us who organized the 2025 fest! We each have specific roles that we work on during spring and summer, then come together during late August—early September to host the fest and host our pre/post fest events.

Curious what you’d be doing❓ We’re excited to learn about your skills, experience, and what you’d like to do. Planning SFZF every year involves applying for grants, making formal arrangements with our venue and vendors, reviewing applications, recruiting and managing 20+ volunteers, promoting the fest, showing up to our events to do whatever is needed, making the event accessible, and way more.

👀 We’re moving to a new venue this year—you can help make the changes go smoothly!

Image description: A stack of zines in the background have the San Francisco Zine Fest logo on top with the text “Intern with us!”

04/11/2026

SFZF is celebrating our 25th year and moving to a new venue! We’re making progress finding one that’s in SF, fully accessible, BARTable, and has enough space for our big ol’ zine fest.

Since SFZF started in 2001, we’ve held the annual fest at a bunch of venues: the Women’s Building, the County Fair Building in Golden Gate Park, online-only SFZF Cyber Fest from 2020 to 2022, City View at Metreon from 2023 to 2025, etc etc

What’s next?? We’ll announce it soon!

Image description: Poster on a wood electric pole covered in staples. Poster shows the SF Zine Fest logo and reads, "The 25th annual SFZF will be at a new venue! "Save the date" coming soon..." with contact info and sfzinefest.org.

12/10/2025

SF Zine Fest is a big fan of ! Come support their 🎉10th anniversary 🥳 The Oakland Creates zine, art and comics fest will be this Saturday, December 13 at Oak Stop, 1721 Broadway in Downtown Oakland. 11-5 p.m. Don’t miss it!! :)

09/05/2025

⚡Support SFZF’s fundraising to continue making cool zine events happen in the Bay Area! ⚡Here’s how:

-Visit us at www.sfzinefest.org to donate (through Flipcause)

-Buy merch designed by Guest of Honor Thien Pham www.instagram.com/thiendog including made-to-order t-shirts here: www.bonfire.com/store/sf-zine-fest/ and tote bags/stickers (plus tons of SFZF merch by other artists) here: sfzinefest.square.site/s/shop

-Become a supporter of SFZF on www.patreon.com/sfzinefest!

-Mark your calendars for our 25th anniversary next year (SFZF is historically on Labor Day weekend!)

-Sign up for the SFZF newsletter to get updates on events & when applications open!

-Plan to volunteer next year!

*Find more easy links to all this at linktr.ee/sfzinefest*

FUN FACT: SFZF organizers also teach zine-making workshops at local schools & bring a zine library and/or zine-making workshop to other zine fests! Ask us more :)

[Image description: The SFZF logo in the top left corner is next to black text on an ochre background that reads, “Check out SFZF merch designed by our 2025 Guest of Honor, Thien Pham!” Below, from left to right and top to bottom, are an image of Thien’s sticker, t-shirts in three colors, tote bag (black design on orange tote) and hoodie with labels for each one. Text in left column reads, “Sticker and tote back on SFZF webstore. Made-to-order t-shirts and hoodies on Bonfire in tons of sizes and colors.” Black text in the footer on ochre background reads, “Find Thien’s merch & more through www.sfzinefest.org!”]

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