Easter Road Press is an insurrectionary transfeminist DIY press from Leith. It's run by Darcy Leigh and Harry Josephine Giles. We make zine about gender, bodies, madness, tarot, academia, neoliberalism, clouds, kink, and other things.

Instagram @easterroadpress

Twitter: @HJosephineGiles

Shop: etsy.com/uk/shop/EasterRoadZines

Coin-Operated Press launched in 2020. We are based in Scotland and run by Katie McCann and Chloe Henderson. We host workshops, run zine fairs, and produce, publish and distribute a monthly collaborative zine. We welcome our community of artists of all genders, sexualities, ages, races, abilities, and backgrounds to get involved and make art with us! We believe everyone is an artist - all you need are the right tools and a little encouragement to have your voice heard in your very own hand-made publication!

Twitter/Insta: @CoinOpPress

Shop: https://coinoperatedpress.bigcartel.com/

Website: https://coinoperatedpress.com/

The Hen Collective is a women led art collective based in Edinburgh, providing a free gallery space for emerging and low-income women and non-binary artists in the local area. A collective for all hens, femmes and thems.

Instagram: @thehencollective

I'm an illustrator who makes silly zines primarily designed to make me (and hopefully others) laugh. My zines are about niche topics that interest me and a comic series about a bird with hands. I love including fictional literature, activities and personality quizzes, plus tonnes of original, detailed illustrations.

Instagram: @hanaberggren

Etsy: www.etsy.co.uk/shop/hanaberggrn

Website: www.hanaberggren.com

Skear Zines aims to resist homogenisation, and celebrate querenesse. It wants to give space to those voices that might not fit into traditional publishing models, voices that have been sidelined or as yet unheard, voices that have small (yet big) things to say, voices that will sing in unconventional forms.

https://skearzines.wordpress.com/2021/11/04/zines/

twitter: @MayaChowdhry @sarahhymas @MeeshECG

IG: @mayachowdhry @shymass @meeshecg

Davidt Dunlop is a Northern Irish illustrator who likes to draw cats, ghosts and monsters. His work centres around the journey of 'outsiders'. Self-publishing for a year now, he has released five zines/books including stories about a lonely snail, poor spirits and an exasperated goat girl.

Social Media Links -

twitter.com/davidtdunlop

etsy.com/shop/davidtdunlop

instagram.com/davidt_dunlop

I am a non-binary visual artist based in Glasgow. I make zines that feature my original ink drawings, and ethereal Risograph printing. My zines explore feelings of cosmic angst through the lens of hyper-niche fan art. I draw and make stories about photo-bombing furbys, melancholic ghosts, curious astronauts, and unwilling vampires.

Website: https://www.georgiemac.com

Instagram: @Hellogeorgiemac

I make text perzines about surviving the mental health system, with a focus on iatrogenic trauma and substance use recovery, but not just.

When I am not making zines I can be found riding a bike, kissing my dog, or crying in the pharmacy.

All my zines are low fixed price or pay what you can.

Instagram @/anniepoca

Etsy: SorryTrufflesZines

Writers’ Bloc is a spoken word performance group and writers’ workshop that has been around for two decades, with an evolving roster of literary talent. It publishes bold, original genre and mainstream fiction with an irreverent and uncompromising tone. Come say hello!

Twitter: @writers_bloc_uk

www.writers-bloc.org.uk

Tanya Floaker is a local ttRPG troublemaker, helping organise the Edinburgh Indie Gamers. L. R. Ambrose is an Australian sculptor and game designer based in Dalkeith. She spends her days cobbling together unearthly creatures and transcribing their tales. Expect a selection of arts, queer, anarcho-communist, and otherwise indie game zines.

https://edinburghindiegamers.com/

https://timeoftribes.itch.io/

https://timeoftribnes.com

https://l-r-ambrose.itch.io/

https://www.instagram.com/elilenti.art/

Glasgow Zine Library is a community archive and zine library based in Govanhill, Glasgow, established in 2018.

We have a growing international collection of over 1000 zines (self-published magazines). GZL also hosts a blended online/offline programme of workshops, professional and artistic development opportunities, community meals, film screenings, discussion groups, reading groups, children’s arts and crafts, social clubs, heritage activities and more. All of our events are either free or pay-what-you-can.

We also programme Glasgow Zine Fest, an annual celebration of zine culture, now in its 9th year.

https://www.glasgowzinelibrary.com/

Jake Parappa Hainey & Rebecca Crawford are artists and zine makers currently residing in the Orkney Islands. Jake's work is mostly comics focused with an emphasis on horror, comedy and 90s nostalgia. Rebecca focuses mostly on mini zines about nature, island life and pagan festivals.

@jakeparappahainey

Etsy.com/shop/jakeparapahainey

@rebecca_crawford_art

Etsy.com/shop/rebeccacrawfordart

Door Ajar Comics is an independent, experimental small press based in Edinburgh exploring the Queer, the Gothic, and the Uncanny. Run by writer/poet, august (in the wake of) dawn (she/they), and illustrator and poet, Levi J. Richards (he/they), our work explores and interrogates the dark corners of the psyche and what may skitter there, just out of the corner of your eye.

Twitter @doorajarcomics

Instagram @doorajarcomics

Rachel Brand is a queer blackout poet, writer and zine-maker living in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her art focuses on the deconstruction of faith and reclamation of sexual autonomy. You can find her on Instagram, Twitter and Etsy at @pixieauthoress.

I have often included quotes from writers or lyrics within my prints, and during the past year I have finally started to incorporate some of my own writing, in the form of printed zines, produced in unlimited editions, sold at accessible prices and distributed widely. I was beginning to feel disconnected as a Printmaker, selling my work at high prices through galleries, whose spaces could be intimidating and inaccessible to many.

Through this form I have felt able to present my writing whilst exploring the the sequential rhythms of the way we look, the conceptual leaps we make between words and image, and the use of juxtaposition to construct and reconfigure meaning.

I have always written small poems and pieces of prose, in response to things I’ve struggled with. The following series of zines, were written as love letters to three animals in my life, exploring the ambiguity I feel with our relationships with animals. Animals made expendable in the maintenance of modern civilised society, for our comfort, sport and food.

www.jessicacrisp.com

Instagram @jessicacrispprintmaker

Paula Lucas is a New Zealand Games Artist who moved to Scotland in 2017 and loves making zines and other art in her spare time. Her work is bright coloured and usually focuses on animals and nature, RISO has become a big fascination and most of her zines use this technique.

Twitter: @PaulaMLucas

Website: https://www.paulalucasart.com/

Ny Ali (Nytastic) is an illustrator and comic artist based in Glasgow. She is seen making comics, Prints and merch. You can find her hiding under her table at conventions or on her social media. She likes tea.

My name is Becca Connor and I make art inspired by cool ladies from history, mythology, and media. I make illustration zines in a style that varies between that of a vintage fairytale book and 1980s cartoon design, as well as comic and history zines about the queer experience.

https://twitter.com/Becca_Connor_

https://www.instagram.com/becca_connor_/

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Chloe's work focus on the everyday details of moments, and how memory focuses on the gentlest and smallest of senses in recalling a moment in time. Gently illustrating memories and thoughts, Heffernan explores minutiae of the everyday and finds tranquillity and creativity in even the saddest of memories.

Natasha Natarajan is a British-Indian artist and creative consultant based in London. Under the name Chikaboo Designs, she runs a freelance business and small-press publishing house where she likes to publish zines that are intimate, honest and vulnerable. She has a soft spot for awkwardly hilarious too. Her most successful zine is the autobiographical comic strip 'FML Comics' which she has been self-publishing since 2016.

www.chikaboo-designs.com/fmlcomics

@fml.comics

www.chikaboo-designs.com

@chikaboo.designs

Sheree Mack/ Sheree Angela Matthews is Creatrix with a practice which manifests through poetry, storytelling, image and the unfolding histories of black people. Sheree engages audiences around Black women’s voices and bodies, Black feminism, nature and trauma, grief, ecology and memory. She advocates for Black women’s voices, facilitating national and international creative workshops and retreats in the landscape, encouraging and supporting women on their journey of remembrance back to their bodies and authentic selves.

IG: @livingwildstudios/ @earthsealove

twitter: @earthsealove1

https://livingwildstudios.com

https://earthsealove.com

https://blacknatureinresidence.com

Forest Publishing & Forest Arts are two strands of Forest, a volunteer-run arts org and sometime vegetarian cafe founded in Edinburgh in 2000. Come for brand new Forest zines and anthologies as well as greatest hits from our backlist and Forest friends. More here: https://blog.theforest.org.uk/

My zines are about various intersections of fatness, queerness, trauma, history, archiving and class. My most recent zines are Adventures in Academia - a perzine about structural inequality in higher education - and Growing and Gardens - a perzine about gardening and feelings.

I am a Glasgow-based writer and zinemaker who makes a mix of fanzines, perzines and poetry. All of the zines featured include a strong visual and collaborative element. I always try and make something both joyous and accessible.

I’m a Polish illustrator based in Glasgow. I create my zines with inspiration from mundane everyday situations. I enjoy telling complex and absurd stories through the simplicity of zine format!

We're a queer micro-press making risograph zines out of our one bedroom flat. We make a mixture of zines; physical games, mini comics, poetry chapbooks and some other harder to define stuff. We make everything from single page pocketmods to 24 page comics.

CHIP stands for 'Comics Help Inform People' and the collective uses comics as a means to make information more widely accessible! CHIP currently has two anthologies, "Living With Cancer: Our Stories" and "Working in: The Arts".

My work predominantly explores natural landscapes and our connection with the natural world entwined with themes of wonder, belonging and mental health.