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'Sapphic Angst Fest' named Best Fanzine 2018

My body currently has no idea what time of day it is - after three nights in Toronto, I'm back in England, and I haven't felt in sync with the clock for about a week. I'm hungry at completely random moments. It's been totally worth it, though, because on Saturday evening, our Berena zine, Sapphic Angst Fest , was named Best Fanzine at the Broken Pencil Zine Awards! The competition was impressive, and as I heard about the zines that we were up against, I was sweating (and not just because the weather over there was amazing). Several of the other zines were so well produced, and spoke of north American culture - and there was me trying to tell people what Holby City is, and who the heck Berena are. So I must admit I was quite surprised when they named Sapphic Angst Fest the winner! Here's a video of the moment (I didn't realise they were filming, otherwise I'd have tried to look a bit cooler about it all). The judges said the zine was "culturally imp