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Issue #82

‘Wolves #1’ perzine is haunting and beautiful

Sidney Drmay |

A feeling of memory made tangible: ‘Ancient Echo’ photo zine

Elwyn Murray |

‘Filthy Bitches 2.0’ artzine challenges the male gaze

Sidney Drmay |

Alive, interconnected and intimate: ‘Conversations with the Mute Chapter 2: Correspondences’ litzine

Joshua Barton |

Fiction: Hong Kong Food Fire Storm

Susanne Lee |

How to Get an Arts Grant for Your Indie Project (in Canada and Other Places)

Hal Niedzviecki (Moderator) |

Zine Philosophy: Aus’ Zines for the End of the World

Aus |

No stone goes unturned in this heavy but insightful page-turner ‘Small Predators’

Ramisha Farooq |

‘Dear Current Occupant’ is a powerful narrative of Black female self-invention

John Nyman |

The Small Intimacies of Motherhood in ‘A Bubble’

JM Francheteau |

‘SKY WRI TEI NGS’ transforms the mundane

Rob Thomas |

Meditations on Prairie Life: ‘Little Wild’

Clayton Tomlinson |

A Homage to Montreal: ‘Everyone Rides the Bus in a City of Losers’

Rob Thomas |

Poetic Vignettes and Nuanced Portrayals of Queerness in ‘Hider/Seeker’

Fiona Raye Clarke |

A Choose Your Own Surrealist Poetry Adventure Zine: ‘We are now an Eager Beaver!!!’

Scott Bryson |

Reconciling the Irreconcilable: ‘Forest Fires’ essay

Scott Bryson |

Real AF artzine and 2018 BP Zine Awards finalist: ‘Homes I Cannot Afford’

Cam Gordon |

Take a peek inside ‘Homes I Cannot Afford’

Broken Pencil |

‘Is the sun a whore?’: relationship woes, jealousy and passion in comic ‘Helioscum #2’

Valley WeeDick |

Reality and fiction mingle in dreamy comic ‘Coma’

Graham Sigurdson |

Folio: Illuminations by Christina Hajjar and Noelle Sagher

Broken Pencil |

Money with morals: ‘Revolution 11’ introduces a new world order

Joshua Barton |

Staggered Healing and Snippets of Summer in perzine ‘Trauma Castle #1-3’

Sidney Drmay |

An Honest and Homegrown Guide to Navigating Anxiety: ‘So You’re Anxious as Fuck’

Cole Brent |