Zine Machine

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Zine Machine mini zine swap! at Tomorrow Bookstore Nov. 11, 5-7pm

How it works: •Bring up to 3 mini-zines to trade with Zine Machine. (Bring copies, not originals!) •Zine Machine will swap you a vending token ($5/1-zine value) per zine you bring in. • Use your tokens to get zines from the vending machine! • Visit zinemachine.com for more details.

Indy zine makers!! Join us at Tomorrow bookstore for a mini zine swap! Details on the second slide, more details at the link in our bio ✨✨

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New Publisher Listing: Zine Machine New publisher listing for: Zine Machine @zinemachine.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction; pays). #WritingCommunity

New publisher listing for: Zine Machine @zinemachine.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction; pays). #WritingCommunity

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Rachel Dorsey

Growing Chamber Zine Machine *art by real humans

✨Zine artist feature!✨ Rachel Dorsey is a painter and multidisciplinary artist based in Sonoma County whose work explores care, grief, chronic illness, and family history through large-scale figurative drawings, paintings, and monotypes. Don’t miss Rachel’s zine, “Growing Chamber” in The VSC Edit!

David Handforth

Potency, Technology, and Masculinity Zine Machine *art by real humans

✨Zine artist feature!!✨ David Handforth is an artist and photographer working in Richmond, Virginia. His practice explores sexual dynamics and social parodies present throughout queer history.
Follow him at @david_handforth on IG and don’t miss his zine in the VSC Edit, out now!

Gina Martucci

Tanka for Imposter Syndrome Zine Machine *art by real humans

✨Zine artist feature!✨ Gina Martucci (she/her) is a queer poet, writer, and English teacher. She writes about stigma, family, friendship, relationship dynamics, gender roles, & religion.
Follow @gina_martucci23 on IG and don’t miss her zine, “Tanka for Imposter Syndrome,” in The VSC Edit, out now!

En En Hsu

Zine Machine *art by real humans

✨Zine artist feature!✨ En En Hsu is a Taiwanese novelist. She is the author of “變成的人” (“The Becoming”) - winner of 2024 TLA New Bud Award & “在女與公之間” (“In Between: The Woman and The Public”).
Follow her at @enenhsu_tw on IG and don’t miss her zine, “Goodnight Taiwan,” in The VSC Edit, out now!

Sylvie Mayer

Zine Machine *art by real humans

✨Zine Artist feature!!✨ Sylvie Mayer is a painter whose work explores performance, interior spaces, and loss. Follow her at @sylviemayer.bsky.social and check out her zine, “Untitled,” in The VSC Edit, out now!!

Roger Kim

부적/매듭 Talisman / knot Zine Machine *art by real humans

✨Zine artist feature!✨ Roger Kim is a multi-disciplinary artist and the creator of puri [풀이] zine. Follow @rodgepodgemusic on IG and check out his zine, “부적/매듭 bujeok/maedeup,” in The VSC Edit at zinemachine.com!

Zine Machine The VSC Edit Sylvie Mayer Rachel Dorsey En En Hsu Gina Martucci David Handforth Roger Kim Kristen Renee Miller Miriam Calleja Kris Kalinowski LA Marks

✨✨ICYMI—our 10/1 launch was a DOUBLE ISSUE drop!! Our bonus issue, The VSC Edit, includes writers and artists who made zines with us this summer at Vermont Studio Center. Read the entire issue online now, and stay tuned for VSC artist features! ✨✨

The importance of radical zines, courtesy of.... a radical zine

Zine Machine Now reading for... The Winter '26 Edit

You’ve been asking… and it’s now! Submissions are open via Submittable for Zine Machine’s Winter ‘26 Edit. All details in bio! 🔥🔥🔥

#zinemachine • Meta Al Zine Machine refers to two related entities: an online literary magazine and a physical zine vending machine. The online platform features art and writings created by human artists and offers free zines that can be read online. The physical vending machine distributes small zines, accepting submissions from creators with specific size and content guidelines. Zine Machine also hosts events, such as workshops and launch parties, to promote zine creation and self-publishing. Zine Machine's mission revolves around promoting DIY culture, supporting independent artists, and fostering community through zine-making. They provide resources, including customizable zine templates and illustration generators, to help creators get started. Some notable events include 1: • A workshop on publishing one's own zine at the ODU Literary Festival on October 7 • A launch party at Tomorrow Bookstore on October 10 • Zine Machine's participation in the ODU Literary Festival from October 7 to 8

Art by real humans. Description by robots.

People also ask Are zines illegal?

I mean, NOT YET ☠️

One of “15 Lit Mags That Are About to Change Everything” Chill Subs

Zine Machine USA Both an online lit mag AND a literal vending machine. They celebrate zine culture through quarterly pop-ups at indie bookstores across the region. Finalists

15 Lit Mags That Are About to Change Everything Our Lit Mag Incubator Winners & Finalists

Chill Subs says good things.
Flair by @miriamcalleja.bsky.social ✨✨

Read — Zine Machine Our launch issue is LIVE!! Read zines made by real (paid!) human artists in Zine Machine's Summer '25 Edit, out now.

All I know to do when things are Very Bad is make art with more artists. I hope my little lit mag @zinemachine.bsky.social (launched today!), brings you what it’s brought me—an insistence that there’s so much brilliance, cleverness, humor, & beauty. That it’s never far away.🩷
zinemachine.com/the-mag

LA Marks

How to be your self Zine Machine *art by real humans

Rounding out our launch issue, it’s ✨LA Marks!✨ LA is a professional typewriter poet of 14 years + counting, a student of ancestral poetics, creative capacity builder, entrepreneur + artist + activist. She is the founder and Chief Poetic Officer of Ars Poetica.
Read her zine, NOW at zinemachine.com✨

Erin Dorney

Artist Residencies I Wish Existed By Erin Dorney Zine Machine *art by real humans

✨Zine artist reveal!✨ Erin Dorney lives in Western New York and has authored a book of epistolary poems addressed to Yoga with Adriene, a book of Shia LaBeouf erasures, & many zines.
Follow her at @erindorney.bsky.social & don’t miss her zine, “Artist Residencies I Wish Existed,” dropping TOMORROW!

Larry Law

Skulls Are Friends Zine Machine *art by real humans

✨Zine artist reveal!✨ Larry Law is an artist and the Executive Director of GLIBA booksellers assoc. With a passion for art, literature & community, he champions independent bookstores across the Midwest.
Follow @larrylaw.bsky.social and don’t miss his zine, “Skulls Are Friends,” dropping TOMORROW! 🙌

Minda Honey

Thoughts Liberated from My Notes App Zine Machine *art by real humans

✨Zine artist reveal!✨ Minda Honey is the author of The Heartbreak Years. She writes a newsletter about being mid(life) on Substack. Follow her at @mindahoney.bsky.social and don’t miss her zine, “Thoughts Liberated from My Notes* App,” in the Summer ‘25 Edit, dropping this week!

We did it @tacobellquarterly.org, we started a lit mag 🔥🔥🔥

Miriam Calleja

Moth Against Light ZINE MACHINE *art by real humans

✨Zine artist reveal!✨ Miriam Calleja is an award-winning poet, writer, editor, workshop leader, and translator. Follow her at @miriamcalleja.bsky.social and don’t miss her zine, “Moth Against Light,” in our Summer ‘25 Edit, dropping next week!

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I’m super psyched for this new publication that is an online mag AND a literal vending machine that dispenses awesome zines made by real artists. If you’re in the Indianapolis area, you can visit one of the actual zine machines at Tomorrow Bookstore. (I really wish I lived closer 😭)

CC: @lindsaylusby.bsky.social 💖

Lindsay Lusby

ZINE MACHINE *art by real humans

✨Zine artist reveal!✨ Lindsay Lusby is a poet, editor, writing coach, letterpress printer, and graphic designer who loves to experiment with all forms of art at the intersection of text and image. Don’t miss her zine, “A Brief History of Perfect Happiness,” in our Summer ‘25 Edit!

CC: @lindsaylusby.bsky.social 💖