Pride Zine Workshop with Mel Galley: Queer Futurities

Join us at the Irish Writers Centre on Saturday, 6th June for an afternoon imagining queer futures, discovering a mix of zine making and bookbinding techniques to create speculative pamphlets bringing together quotes, visual imagery and your own writing. The session is open to everyone with an interest in LGBTQIA+ histories and printed matter, with no experience in making or writing required.
In a collaborative and supportive atmosphere we will cover a range of accessible techniques for creating your own publications, with all materials provided. Over the session we will approach queer futures as a place of possibilities, framed by thinking from writers, researchers and artists working with queer histories, speculative futures, community, place and hope.
You are welcome to bring your own writing to work with. There will also be materials provided if you prefer to work with those on the day.
This event is part of the Irish Writers Centre programme events in celebration of Pride Month 2026. The zine workshop will be facilitated by artist Mel Galley.

This event is part of the Irish Writers Centre Pride 2026 programme, and we would like to thank Dublin City Council for their support in making this programming possible.

Mel Galley is an early-career practitioner with a constellation-shaped practice weaving together research, making, teaching and writing. She can be found (often) fabricating in workshops, digging through archives, searching across databases, wandering within landscapes and bookbinding in the studio. Mel holds a Masters in Art and Research Collaboration from IADT, and has shown work across Ireland and the UK, including the LAB Gallery, BETA Festival and Signal Film and Media. Her artist books are held in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and (more importantly) on the walls and bookshelves of strangers and friends.

Image Credit: Bookbinding and Zine making Workshop with The Balcony Project, Project Arts Centre, 2025. Photography by Louis Haugh