Submit your zines

We welcome submissions of zines on any topic. There is no selection policy so as long as your work is self-published we will include it in the Library, although we reserve the right to discuss in our group and veto work we consider goes against our safe spaces agreement – which extends from our collective to the zine library itself.

NOTE: We’re currently dealing with a large backlog of uncatalogued zines.  As a result, it may take a while for your zine to make it into the library. This is in part to do with our new online cataloguing system (check it out here) Thanks for understanding! 

How to submit your zines

As we look for a new home, we aren’t currently accepting postal submissions of zines!

Why submit your zines?

There’s many reason why you might want to submit your zine. Many zinesters enjoy sharing their zines in a publicly-accessible space like Edinburgh Central Library. It could help to widen the audience of your zine, or even simply provide a space for your story to be told. Access to our library is free and open to everybody (and always will be ) and we are always thinking about ways we can make the collection even more accessible to even more people.

Can you offer any payment for zine submission?

We cannot currently pay for your zines (although we hope this will change one day) but we hope you will think about submitting in the spirit of zine making. We began our library by offering badges for zine submissions, however this has been been temporarily halted due to the Covid-19. We are also currently in the process of creating an easier way to send badges to zinesters, as well as creating new designs.

If you are a zinester who is currently owed a badge, please get in touch and we will do out best to get one out to you ASAP.

What happens to my zine once it’s submitted?

Once your zine has been received we will catalogue it online and it will be available to our users in the Library. If you decide at any point that you want to remove your zine from the collection, we can’t guarantee that we can return it, but of course we can take it out of the physical/digital catalogue.

If you are submitting a zine or several, we’d really appreciate if you would fill in this google form. It’s just to give us an idea of what your zine is about, and also what copyright you want on it. There’s a handy guide to the Creative Commons license available to you on the form – if you have any questions please email us at: edinburghzinelibrary@gmail.com