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"What if there were no rules, no templates? What if we just went wild?" Chris Harrigan, editor of The Story, speaks about escaping the confines of literary publishing stackmagazines.com/literature/s...

OFFALISM 001 (Pilot) YouTube video by Offal Industries

I have to go out in five minutes so I'm going to miss the start of the first @offalindustries.bsky.social live stream. Hopefully back before the end of @drblacklock.bsky.social doing his bit... www.youtube.com/live/9mj_dOw...

Stack Independent Magazines on Stage – with Die Quieter Please, Dispatch, The Fence, and Piscine Stack x St Bride Foundation Stack Independent Magazines on Stage With Die Quieter Please , Dispatch...

This is going to be loads of fun. Independent magazines on stage, at St Brides on Thursday night, with @thefence.bsky.social, Die Quieter Please, @dispatchmedia.bsky.social, and Piscine. Tickets are £6.50 and all proceeds go to St Brides. Come join us! billetto.co.uk/e/stack-inde...

Stack Independent Magazines on Stage – with Die Quieter Please, Dispatch, The Fence, and Piscine Stack x St Bride Foundation Stack Independent Magazines on Stage With Die Quieter Please , Dispatch...

Stack Independent Magazines on Stage – with Die Quieter Please, Dispatch, The Fence, and Piscine.
Thu 5 Feb, 6 pm, St Bride Foundation

Love seeing magazines come to life! 🤗 @stackmagazines.bsky.social

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Tokyo Art Book Fair 2025 - STACK magazines Take a tour of the tables at the massively expanded Tokyo Art Book Fair 2025, with Yuto Miyamoto from Troublemakers magazine

Last month saw a massively expanded Tokyo Art Book Fair run across two weekends instead of one, doubling its capacity as people clamoured for independent print. Yuto Miyamoto was there – read his full report on the Stack blog stackmagazines.com/everything/t...

New podcast! Colton Karpman, editor of New Papers, explains why he wanted his literary publication to be performed on stage as well as read on the page, to more fully explore the boundaries of fiction and poetry. See the full video on the Stack blog: stackmagazines.com/literature/n...

"You can keep your beers now." Greg Stanley, editor of Off Licence magazine, on the difficulty of setting up brand partnerships, and making sure that it's all worthwhile. You can see the full video of our Magazine Club conversation on the Stack blog... stackmagazines.com/music/underg...

Independent magazine get together - STACK magazines

Magazine people in London – come along to our free independent publishing meet up at the ICA on Thursday night next week, with Hotshoe, Motor, Translator and The Wire. It would be lovely to see you there! stackmagazines.com/update/indep...

The first Stack podcast of 2026 is out! Featuring Laura Frade, managing editor of Apartamento magazine speaking about the creative chaos that keeps things fresh 18 years on. Check the Stack site to see the full video... stackmagazines.com/art-design/t...

The Mortar Great stories from the world’s independent publishers

Happy new year! I'm very excited to introduce The Mortar, a new project that will massively expand what we're able to do with Stack. Sign up for free and get more great stories from the world's independent publishers mortarmagazine.com

Save 10% on all our subscriptions with the code JAN2026, until midnight on 31 January stackmagazines.com/subscribe/

Stack independent magazines 2025 – part 2 - STACK magazines Hear our overview of the independent magazines we delivered to Stack subscribers from July to December 2025

Our year in independent magazines, part 2 – hear from all the magazines we delivered from July to December, feat. Hotshoe, Troublemakers, Not Here to Make Friends, Cake Zine, Off Licence, and Beneficial Shock! stackmagazines.com/film/stack-i...

In June we held a spoken word event for independent magazines and it was great fun, so we're doing it again, but in a much nicer venue. Come see the show on Thurs 5 Feb at St Bride's, with Die Quieter Please, Dispatch, The Fence & Piscine stackmagazines.com/literature/i...

Life is too short for dull magazines! Delayed Gratification editor Rob Orchard says that serious magazines should be beautiful too. See our full conversation on the Stack site, or search for "Stack Magazines" wherever you get your podcasts... stackmagazines.com/current-affa...

"There is a glut of content online eternally..." Tanya Bush explains why she and her co-editor Aliza Abarbanel chose print for Cake Zine, their literary food magazine. Watch the full video of our conversation on the Stack site now... stackmagazines.com/food-drink/t...

Stack independent magazines 2025 – part 1 - STACK magazines Hear part 1 of our roundup, covering the independent magazines we delivered to our subscribers from January to June 2025

We're taking stock of our year in independent print. Part one just went live on the Stack podcast – give it a listen to hear from Broadcast, Solomiya, Skin Deep, New York Review of Architecture, Playground & No One stackmagazines.com/update/stack...

Off Licence 16 - STACK magazines Name Greg Stanley Job title Editor and founder What is Off Licence? Offie Mag is an independent print magazine and events platform centred on independent music and the culture around it. I started it ...

"Intentionally unpretentious": Off Licence editor Greg Stanley goes deep on his music magazine, which we delivered to Stack subscribers last month. stackmagazines.com/magazine/off...

Black Friday sale finishes midnight tonight – get 20% off with the code STACKFRIDAY2025 while you can... stackmagazines.com

Charles Emmerson, editor of Translator magazine, shares his mission to explore beyond the Anglosphere and help English speakers realise a better understanding of the world. See our full conversation on the Stack site: stackmagazines.com/current-affa...

Save 20% on all our subscriptions with the code STACKFRIDAY2025, until midnight on Monday. And if you're buying a gift, take a look at the offers on our special Christmas page: stackmagazines.com/christmas/

"The only way to make this sort of work right now is to be unpaid. So either you do it unpaid, or you don't do it at all." Sophie Barshall, editor of The Toe Rag, on the dire state of independent arts funding in the UK, and publishing regardless. stackmagazines.com/art-design/i...

"Someone on Real Housewives will definitely be like a governor. That's going to happen." Everett Epstein, editor of Not Here to Make Friends magazine, on reality TV and America's political reality. See our full conversation on the Stack site: stackmagazines.com/current-affa...

You heard it here first: The next issue of Cake Zine is going to be Steak Zine, "a 'medium-rare' special issue examining red meat’s cultural impact" stackmagazines.com/magazine/cak...

Poking holes with Mother Tongue magazine - STACK magazines Editors Melissa Goldstein and Natalia Rachlin speak about Mother Tongue magazine, which presents a distinctly grown-up picture of motherhood

As their ninth issue hits shelves around the world, Melissa and Natalia from Mother Tongue speak about painting a more grown-up picture of motherhood stackmagazines.com/women/poking...

Join the Stack affiliate programme - STACK magazines

If you love what we do, tell your friends and you could earn 10% commission on any subscriptions they set up. Come and join the Stack affiliate programme! stackmagazines.com/update/join-...

Join our free Magazine Club on Thursday evening next week to hear from the reality TV obsessives who publish Not Here to Make Friends. This should be fun... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/magazine-c...

"It's a bit like abusing a 303..." @offalindustries.bsky.social is making AI fall over, then poking around to find artistic opportunity in what remains. Hear the full conversation with editors @drblacklock.bsky.social and Roderick Stanley on the Stack podcast now stackmagazines.com/literature/o...

If print is not dead, who’s keeping it alive? Shifting our focus from the designer or artist, and putting a spotlight on the printmakers and presses behind their projects, we spoke to some of the people crafting our tangible visual worlds about w...

The artists and technicians keeping print alive, according to It's Nice That. Thanks very much for the mention Ellis! www.itsnicethat.com/features/if-...

See how a love for embracing "misfits" leads to Japan's Troublemakers magazine kicking up their own (gentle, beautiful) form of good trouble stackmagazines.com/travel/troub...

The new episode of the Stack podcast is out now – hear how Mnemotope magazine's radically open approach helps them to tell a different type of story stackmagazines.com/literature/r...