Spring 2024 Gristle Butter #11
Click here to read Gristle Butter #11, featuring Zora D, Jay S (‘22), Miles C, Sarah P, Rosie A, and Maddox B.
Creative Writing
Spring 2024 Gristle Butter, Issue #10
Click here to read the Spring 2024 Gristle Butter, Issue #10 featuring Maddox B, Daniel A, Kylie G, Odessa M, and Tristan S.
ZineFest 2023
Members of our Zine Club traveled to Richmond with Olchar to attend ZineFest, where our students could sell or trade the zines they’ve created here at school.
Fiction and Poetry Contest Winners!
Congratulations to two of our seniors for receiving honors from Roanoke College’s High School Fiction and Poetry Contest! Chloe A. has won Second Place for her story “A Poison Tree in Munich” and Oliver H. earned an honorable mention for his story “Scarecrow.” Look for Chloe’s story in an upcoming special issue of the Roanoke Review online journal!
Blacksburg Zine Fest ’22
Seven students from the CHS Zine Club shared little books by themselves and past members at the first Blacksburg Book and Art Fair. They mingled with other members of the SW Virginia publishing & art community and distributed scores of zines, including a set purchased for the zine collection of the Hollins University library.
Below can find links to some of the Gristle Butter publications created by our students.
The group thanks the students, parents, and faculty who stopped by to say hello!
Zine Fest!
Olchar gave his CHS Zine Club students their first opportunity since quarantining began to meet other zine makers, as well as learn about and become involved in the broader zine community.
The group worked a booth to sell and trade their zines at the brand-new Blacksburg Zine Fest (officially “Art & Book Fair”).
Olchar also worked a table for Monocle-Lash Anti-Press.
Gristle-Butter Issue 5
The anticipated fifth issue of Gristle-Butter is here! Not familiar with Gristle-Butter yet? Dig in to read this issue of our Literary ‘Zine perpetrated by the CHS Creative Writing Groups.
A Third Course of Gristle-Butter
The third issue of Gristle-Butter, the CHS Creative Writing Zine, is ready to be eaten.
If your literary diet has been sorely deficient in Gristle-Butter due to the covid-proofing delays this semester, fear not! Click here for a solid dose of creativity, tendony-typos and all, by your peers in the CHS Creative Writing Classes.
QuarantZine #10 is Available For Your Enjoyment!
You can download it here!
The Zine Club is asking for artwork submissions for the covers and interiors of both zines, Gristle-Butter as well as QuarantZine. No themes are assigned, but artwork should be able to be used in B&W. Get in touch with Olchar!
To see all of the past issues, go to the ZineClub page.
Your Next Heap of Gristle Butter Is Available!
The Second issue of Gristle-Butter, the CHS Creative Writing Zine has arrived!
Click here to enjoy over 50 pages of Poetry and Fiction by your peers in the CHS Creative Writing Classes.