CLASS INFORMATION
Angela Renѐ Pessina Classroom | ArtsQuest Creative Factory powered by PPL | 25 W 3rd St, Bethlehem, PA 18015
- One-day Workshop
- Sunday, November 8
- 10 AM – 1 PM
- Ages: 13+
- Visual Arts Class Registration Policy
- Scholarship Information
FABLEink: Write and Create: Poetry Zines
FABLE (Fiction, Arts, Books, Literature, Education) ink is a gathering of poets, writers, and book lovers who all have a common goal: to write and become better artists. This specific lesson is on poetry zines. Zines are small DIY booklets that can be made digitally, with DIY collage, and other types of materials. In this weekend intensive, we will create Poetry Zines and show them off. In this workshop, you’ll learn the history and background on zines, DIY publishing, and distribution (zine fairs, trading zines, etc.) and then we’ll make our own and have a mini zine showcase and trading session.
Kenna DeValor
Kenna DeValor (they/them) is a nonbinary + queer writer, literary agent, and current graduate student based in Northeast Pennsylvania.
They hold a B.A. in English Literature with a minor in Creative Writing from Bloomsburg University. Currently, they attend Wilkes University’s Maslow Family Creative Writing MA/MFA program for Fiction, and they are writing their MA Thesis: a debut YA dark academia novel while working under the incredible YA author Allison Saft as their mentor.
In DeValor’s career, they have been published 70+ times in various art/literary journals and magazines around the US, UK, and Australia. They have been nominated twice in 2025 for Best of the Net (1x for visual art & 1x for short fiction) and once for Best Short Fictions 2026. They have their poetry collection DISCOFRUIT available at certain indie bookshops in Pennsylvania! (Friendly Alien Bookstores etc.) They also started their very own nonprofit (501c3) literary arts magazine in 2019 called FlowerMouth Press that uplifts diverse voices, which has amassed over 4,000 followers.
When DeValor is not writing, reading, making zines, drawing, analyzing banned books, or performing onstage, they are a journalist for a local newspaper, a professional tattoo artist in their hometown of Bethlehem, PA, and a professional typewriter poet contracted with the Poetry Society of New York. They also spend their time making music with their Lehigh Valley Girls Rock indie alt band ARACHNYX, supporting their local library as a programs coordinator, occasionally performing their writing live, and going on adventures with their fiancé, Drew.
You can find Kenna on Instagram at: @teadragonz and @kennadevalorwrites and on their website: www.kennadevalor.com.