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End of an era!

Tonight we de-installed the Zine Machine after a 4 year run at Transcend Garneau. Once again, we want to extend a huge thank you to the cafe, its staff, and its kind patrons for their support over the years. 

The machine is headed for a bit of a makeover vacation and then will be installed inside Allard Hall at MacEwan University from March 12-23rd. Exact location within the building TBA later this week. (and yes, you are more than welcome to come check out the machine even if you are not a MacEwan student ;)

Today we facilitated a Zine Making workshop at Allard Hall and we cannot wait to share the zines that were made in the machine.

Stay tuned!

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ch-ch-ch-chaaaannnges

Hello, and Happy New Year! We have some big changes to announce...

The zine machine will see it’s last day at Transcend Cafe Garneau on Monday Feb 26th. We want to extend a massive THANK YOU to Transcend for being supportive of this project. It could not have happened without their kindness (and patience)! And of course, a huge thank you to everyone who has purchased zines from the machine over the years at this location. The zine machine would not exist without you. <3

FEAR NOT THOUGH!

The zine machine will be installed as a pop-up installation in Allard Hall at MacEwan University for two weeks in March. This is in conjunction with a free zine making workshop that will be taking place at the beginning of March. Exact dates, TBA. Stay tuned!

After that, the fate of the zine machine is up in the air. We have some ideas of where we’d like to see it housed next but no set plans. If you run a small business in Edmonton (ideally a Cafe or similar type of space), and would be interested in housing the zine machine for any length of time, please get in touch!

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Dear Diary Zine Fest 2018 Application

The idea behind Dear Diary Zine Fest began when a couple of seasoned East Bay zinesters felt jaded about the current state of zine fests. Disappointed with the high number of expensive art zines and low number of trashy, cut-and-paste zines, we decided to start a new kind of zine fest. Dear Diary Zine Fest, a text-heavy fest full of feelings, aims to amplify marginalized voices and celebrate the healing and transformative power of telling our stories through perzines. Some of our favorite zines are perzines, some of our favorite zines were made last minute using whatever scraps of paper that were lying around, nothing fancy. We want this to be for the freaks, the queers, people with no online presence, people too shy to submit to fests, younger folks, first time, and long time zine makers. Let it all out and share it with us!

The Dear Diary Zine Fest Application is live!!! Apply, apply, apply! We are accepting applications until the 15th of December. Also, feel free to email us if you have any questions at deardiaryzinefest[at]gmail.com <3<3

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TOMORROW!

we will be tabling at the SMF zine fair tomorrow evening with our pals twelveohtwo zine distro. come say hi! we’ll have mini zines on how the 780 distro zine machine works and how you can get YOUR zines stocked in the machine! HOW META! 

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I’m super excited to announce I’ve taken over the distro responsibilities! I met Jenna last year to give her my zines to carry and she mentioned how busy she was with school and everything else. I know it was a hard decision for Jenna to make, but she officially handed over the keys to me on February 1st!

Who am I? My name is Beverley, I run Belly Buttons, I make zines, custom 1″ buttons, decals and other DIY stuff here in Edmonton. I’ve vended at Lady Geeks Unite, Edmonton Zine Fair and the Edmonton Anarchist Bookfair. My zines have been carried by 780 Distro and Undercover Books via the Drawing Room. I’ve been collecting, trading and reading zines for over 10 years now (yes, I’m old)! So please know that I’m going to make 780 Distro the baddest betch in town.

I’ve got some grand plans for what I’ll be stocking the machines with, but for now, go follow the distro on Instagram and check back on this page for updates!

xoxo

[marwhy]

☀️🗻💌 #zine #wip #torontoart

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you should check out this event next sunday! 780distro will be there! 

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we’re super stoked to have zines form subtleceiling in our distros!!!!!! pick em up!!!! 

http://subtleceiling.tumblr.com/

[wearepioneerspress]

DRUM ROLL! 

ANNOUNCING OUR NEWEST PUBLISHED TITLE!

I Don’t Know How to Help You edited by Jessie Duke

Out now via our baby sister imprint, Punch Drunk Press. 

Available here for $5

Compiled by Jessie Duke, I Don’t Know How to Help You is a compilation of writing exploring the dificulties in supporting loved ones with depression, and not knowing how to ask for help when you are the one suffering. This is a resource of assistance and compassion, of true ache and optimism in the face of crushing blues.

With letters and essays from Jessie Duke (Hard Fifty Farm zine series, owner of Pioneers Press), Adam Gnade (The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin’ Sad, Caveworld: A Novel), Jonas (Fixer Eraser, Cheer the Eff Up, The Greatest Most Traveling Circus, SRVIV), Trace Ramsey (Quitter zine and book series, Lasterday), Elizabeth Thompson (SRVIV and Country Grind Quarterly contributor), Alyssa Bicoy, and Kelly Bastow.

[quittercarryingcapacity]

New from Pioneers Press. This is an important piece, and I am glad I was able to contribute to it.

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https://www.facebook.com/events/1576507482622962/1587566848183692/

go 2 this!!!!! 

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LILLIPUTIAN: THE GENERATION OF COMPUTER LOVE

A literary zine that contains sad poetry, short stories, three interviews, some nice art, and a few pieces of crappy glitch art. If you want a PDF or you want to send in some writing and artwork, email us at [email protected].

Finally finished it. It’s out. Some of the bold font disappeared during the end…. Don’t know what happened. Don’t think it’s destructive though.

[never-wanted-to-dance]

Still Growing - a zine about being young, feeling old + wondering what exactly an ‘adult’ really is - Volume 1

I’m kind of doing a thing that I’ve been wanting to do for a while now and I would love some of you to contribute to it if you want to! Open submissions for art / comics / poems / photography / short stories (below 500 words / articles based around the themes of:

What is an adult? - What growing up means to you

Staying young or growing old gracefully (or otherwise)

Failure - hitting the bottom and building yourself back up again

Funny things you believed / were told as a kid

The farthest you’ve ever been from home + why / what it was like

Cooking! Because adults know how to cook, right? Comfort food recipes preferred~

Embarrassing stories about mistakes you’ve made, preferably funny ones or ones that ended well in some way

It’s not rigid and it’s not set in stone, so anything based around the theme of growing up and navigating the terrifying and weird world of adulthood would be great. However you want to interpret it is up to you. 

You will be fully credited by name or alias for ANY submission, with longer/larger submissions credited by name, photo and a link to whatever social media you want. You will automatically receive a copy for contributing, and also my eternal gratitude and general awe at how cool you are - I want this to be a proper collaboration, built up from a community of a range of ages and backgrounds. That’d be the ultimate goal, really. 

I’m putting a loose submission deadline on this as 31st May 2015, but this may be extended. If you could email submissions to [email protected] with ‘Still Growing’ somewhere in the subject line that would be great, and feel free to send questions that way as well, or send them to me in an ask on here. If you don’t fancy submitting anything, I’d really appreciate it if you could reblog this post to your own followers and possibly see if they might like to contribute. 

I’m really looking forward to seeing what you send over!

[enjoyworkflow]

Feeeeeeeeeeeelsssssss a zine by edau 2015 ✌

[unlovely-angel]

Hi friends! My name is Mar, but you can also call me Elliott. I’m a Filipinx, nonbinary (they/them pronouns), fat femme, traumatized, severely mentally ill tender queer. I am a resilient, creative force and I make zines and art that center around gender identity, trauma, and intimacy.

I am currently unemployed and trying to get out of an abusive situation. Because I’ve been unable to find a job, it’s been really difficult for me to see how I can make this possible. So I’m selling some zines to help me out for the time being.

BLOOM: A Zine About Coming Into Femmeness; completed April 2015. Features original words and artwork by me. Available in four colors (but because colors are limited, I will be selecting at random unless specified). Your purchase of BLOOM comes with a hand-cut one-of-a-kind “FEMME” collage. Price: $5 (+ $1 for postage).

THREE A.M.; completed February 2014. My first independent zine.  Features original words and artwork by me. Price: $5 (+$1 for postage).

If you would like to purchase a zine, please message me at [email protected] with your name (please let me know if I need to use a specific name when mailing out), email address, which zine(s) you would like, and how many copies. I will then send you an invoice confirming your order before I ship the item(s) out. I currently can’t ship outside of the U.S. at this moment, sorry. 

Please feel free to share this with your friends and followers as many times as you’d like. I appreciate all your support and help! <3

Mar (Elliott). 

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I hope this person is able to ship zines outside of the US at some point, I’d love to read these!

[nathanleader]

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The 7 deadly Sins Zine from my last project 

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check out this cool free zine