January Closing

Here is your pre-warning that the online store will be closed for January! This will be so I can give the website a much-needed re-vamp, and work on some other things behind the scenes. So if you’d like anything, be…

Pen Fight is turning 10 years old!

November 17th is officially the 10th birthday of Pen Fight! To celebration I'll be throwing a birthday party (you're all welcome) and putting together a birthday zine (and need contributors).

UK Zine Events Calendar

In case you hadn’t spotted it – I keep a calendar of UK zine events regularly updated, to help folks find zine fests going on around the country or other zine – related events (zine clubs! zine launches! workshops! talks!…

Zine Club is back!

Pen Fight is teaming with Salford Zine Library to bring Zine Club to Gorton Community Centre on March 29th, 5-7pm. Come and work on a project, learn something new, read zines from our collection or just chat to some new…

Happy International Zine Month!

July is International Zine Month! Originally coined by Alex Wrekk (of Stolen Sharpie Revolution / Portland Button Works), IZM is a month-long celebration of all things zine and independent publishing. Every year Alex also writes a list of daily suggested…

December 2016 News

It feels like a long time since we last said hello in July – since then we’ve had tables at Hulme Is Where The Art Is, the Manchester and Salford Anarchist Bookfair, and 2 Poor Pals pop-ups, ran workshops at The Whitworth and Altrincham…

July 2016 News

Thanks to everyone who stopped by at DIY Cultures or came and made badges with us at Northwest Zinefest! The badge making workshop was so busy it could have gone on all day – we’ll try and put on some…

Hello hello!

Welcome to our shiny new website! We’ll be posting our major updates here, but for more regular news you can follow us on Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook. ♡ Events: We’re gonna be tabling at the Sheffield Zine Fest on April…