Say Hello to Our 2021 Zine Awards Judges!
A big welcome to our 2021 BP Zine Awards Judges, Fiona Smyth and Katie Salisbury! So excited to have these […]
Online Exclusive Fiction: The Drum
The Drum by Taaha Ali The individual dwellings were scattered about and incredibly rudimentary, forming a village. The women were […]
Introducing Our Spring Issue: The Big Quit!!!
Exploited and exhausted, modern labourers are seeking a new possibility in the world of work: no work at all. In […]
Food zinesters hunger for more taste in writing
Immigrant kids will know this one well. You’re at school and it’s finally time for lunch. Brown paper bags crinkle, […]
Sleemor Gank – Burg Land 1
Attempting to describe the first issue of Burg Landin a capsule review isa steep order, but I’ll give it a […]
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Founded in 2017, Broken Pencil Zine Awards celebrates excellence in independent, underground zine making and micro-printing! Since its inception in […]
Call for Submissions: Gypsophila
Gypsophila: Saudade Submissions Writing (poetry and prose) as well as illustration and collage and other multimedia. Multiple pieces can be […]
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Online Exclusive Fiction: The Drum
The Drum by Taaha Ali The individual dwellings were scattered about and incredibly rudimentary, forming a village. The women were […]
Bitch Magazine Ends
On April 12, Bitch Media, the digital enterprise born out of the Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture zine, announced […]
Zine Awards 2021 Artzine of the Year: Diaspora Daughter/Diaspora Dyke by Christina Hajjar
This zine collects photography, poetry, and performance and objects to contend with intergenerational inheritance, personal histories, pleasure, loss, love, and […]
Online Exclusive Fiction: 66 Sunflower Street
66 Sunflower Street by Ann Wuehler Granny Tru killed Gran’pa Burley with the chicken hatchet. She buried him […]
Honorarium
Honorarium Nathaniel G. Moore, 250 pgs, Palimpsest Press, palimpsestpress.ca, $19.95 CDN What do professional wrestling icon Bret “Hitman” Hart, a […]
Zine Awards 2021 Zine of the Year: Human Remains by O. Ashby
We begin, of course, with our zine of the year winner, O. Ashby. Originally from Chicago via California, she now […]
‘A Country of Ghosts’ is a fable answering anarchism’s trickiest dilemmas
A Country of Ghosts Margaret Killjoy, 222 pgs, AK Press, akpress.org, $15 Anarchism is, by my definition at least, a […]
Learn English with Mr. Wood
Learn English with Mr. Wood Antek, Please Take One Books, 10pgs, $3 Learn English with Mr. Woodis a fragmented, illustrated […]
A Quantum Conversation with Lavender Country
A Quantum Conversation with Lavender Country Chapbook, Jason Triefenbach, 32 pgs, Standard Practice CoCreative,tinyurl.com/lavendercountryzine, $10 In 1973, Lavender Country released […]
A field guide of fanciful bugs
A field guide of fanciful bugs Amanda Earl, 28 pgs, $5, above/ground Press,abovegroundpress.blogspot.com Originally published as an ebook in 2010,a […]
Information To Include In Your Own Post-Roe Infozine
It’s key that we build strong, autonomous local networks to support patients including secure treatment pathways in advance of any […]
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