Zines

One of the best things about zines is how we’re not in competition with each other. Making & doing & putting our work into the world only makes the zine & DIY scene stronger and creates more room for other people to do their own thing. So – go follow & support these other ace zinesters, and go start something of your own! Make a zine, start a distro or a library, put on a fair!

Would you like your zine-related-thing listed here? Contact us and we’ll happily add you.

Other UK Distros:

♡ Vampire Hag Distro (Kent) – website / tumblr / twitter / instagram / facebook
♡ Synchronise Witches (Huddersfield) – website / tumblr / twitter / instagram /  facebook
♡ A Pale Landscape (Swindon) – etsy

♡ You can also find lots of individuals selling zines on Etsy in the zine category.

International Distros:

♡ Brown Recluse Zine Distro (USA) – website / tumblr / instagram / facebook
♡ Mend My Dress Press (USA) – website / tumblr / instagram / facebook
♡ Portland Button Works And Zine Distro (USA) – website / tumblr / twitter / instagram / facebook
♡ Merfemme Distro (Germany) – etsy / facebook / instagram

Libraries:

♡ Salford Zine Library (Manchester) – website / twitter / instagram / facebook
♡ Manchester LGBT Zine Library – website / twitter / tumblr / facebook
♡ Zineopolis (Portsmouth) – website
♡ British Library (London) – website
♡ The Stuart Hall Library (London) – website
♡ The Forgotten Zine Archive (Dublin) – twitter / facebook
♡ London College of Communication Library – website / facebook
♡ Burnley Zine Library – tumblr
♡ Glasgow Women’s Library – website / twitter
♡ Glasgow School of Art Library zine collection – tumblr
♡ Huddersfield Zine Library – facebook
♡ York Zine Library – facebook
♡ Glasgow Zine Library – website / twitter / instagram / facebook
♡ Plymouth Zine Library – website / twitter
♡ Queer Zine Library (travelling) – website / twitter
♡ Lincoln Zine Library –  twitter
♡ Dundee Zine Library – twitter
♡ Edinburgh Zine Library – website / twitter
♡ Cornwall Zine Library – website
♡ Notts Zine Library – instagram

Shops:

♡ Housmans (London) sells zines in their physical store – website
♡ Crisps (Edinburgh) sells zines/comics/magazines – website / twitter
♡ Specialist Subject Records (Bristol) sell zines along with records – website / twitter / instagram
♡ News From Nowhere (Liverpool) sells zines and radical books and other merch – website / twitter
♡ Shelf Life (Cardiff) – website / twitter
♡ Category Is Books (Glasgow) – website / twitter

Printing:

(coming soon!)

UK Zine Fests:

♡ North-West Zine Fest – website / twitter / instagram / facebook
♡ Sheffield Zine Fest – website / twitter / instagram / facebook
♡ Glasgow Zine Fest – website / twitter / instagram / facebook
♡ DIY Cultures (London) – tumblr /  twitter / facebook
♡ Queer Zine Fest (London) – tumblr / twitter / facebook
♡ Alternative Press (London) – website / twitter / facebook
♡ Leeds Zine Fair – website
♡ SW Zines (events in SW London/Surrey) – website / twitter
♡ Swansea Zine Fest – website / twitter
♡ Dundee Zine Fest – twitter
♡ Swindon Zine Fest – website / twitter
♡ Bradford Zine Fair – twitter

UK Groups:

♡ Goldsmiths Zine Society – facebook group
♡ Bristol Zine Collective – facebook group

Podcasts

♡ Nobody Cares About Your Stupid Zine Podcast – website (last updated 2012)
♡ Zinecore Radio – website (last updated 2011)
♡ It’s Pronounced Zine – website
♡ Zine Report – website
♡ Print, Fold, Staple – website
♡ Read and Distribute – website

Other Zine Resources:

♡ PoC Zine Project (USA) – tumblr / twitter / instagram / facebook
♡ Queer Zine Archive Project – website / twitter
♡ Stolen Sharpie Revolution – website
♡ ZineWiki – website
♡ Ace Zine Archive – website / tumblr
♡ We Make Zines social network for zinesters – website
♡ Fanzines news about zine culture from around the world – tumblr / twitter / facebook
♡ Zine Nation zine reviews and interviews – website / twitter
♡ UK and Ireland Zine Librarians – website / twitter
♡ Call For Zine Submissions tumblr re-blogging zine-related call for submissions – tumblr
♡ Fuck Yeah Zines – tumblr
♡ We Love Zines – tumblr
♡ Grrrl Zines – tumblr
♡ Nice Zines – tumblr
♡ Zines A Go Go – facebook group
♡ UK Zine Scene – facebook group
♡ Feminist Zines Europe – facebook group

Online Archives:

♡ Solidarity! Revolutionary Center and Radical Library – website

Articles:

50 zines by queer people of colour ♥ Cut & Paste (Bitch Magazine’s regular article on zines) ♥ How To Make A Zine a guide by Rookie ♥ How I Make My Zines by Emma ♥ How To Run A Zine Event also by Emma

Videos:

Riot Grrrl Activism through Art and Zines (5:24) by Alien She at YBCA ♥ Self-Publishers of the World Take Over (34:11) by Salford Zine Library ♥ How To Make A Zine (3:49) by Nicki Sabalu ♥ Making Zines on a Budget (9:55) by Marie Annetoinette

Books:

♡ Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism by Alison Piepmeier
♡ Stolen Sharpie Revolution: A DIY Zine Resource by Alex Wrekk
♡ Girls Make Media by Mary Celeste Kearney