Gray Flag #4 zine

Gray Flag zine is a compilation of journal entries Chris Auman wrote as a part of the Story Workshop Method of Fiction Writing at Columbia College Chicago in the early 90s.

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Specs.

4.125″ x 5.875″ 28 pages, color cover, b&w throughout, stapled, 100 lb paper, 110 lb

Introduction to Gray Flag #4

In the introduction to Gray Flag #3, I wondered if I would have enough entries for a fourth issue. My source material—the journals I kept as a writing student at Columbia College in the early 1990s—had been picked through pretty well by that point. What remained, I thought, was either illegible or too cringeworthy to include. Some will remain forever undecipherable because, while the handwriting starts strong with pen held firmly in hand, it gradually degrades into something only resembling words on a page.

In the end, I was able to resurrect enough to fill this issue, and possibly one more. I also used some writing from outside of class, such as the introduction to a one-off underground newspaper my dormmate and I published while attending DePaul University in 1989 and an article I contributed to the Columbia Chronicle in 1993.

At any rate, I’m almost to the end of this project. Thanks for reading so far. — April, 2024