zines

Zines are how I started writing and I still have the juvenilia should anyone who loves me be in need of a laugh. I’ve made music zines, riot grrrl zines, travel zines, theatre zines; zines of bad fiction and worse poetry; collaborative zines, and zines for other people. Only a few appear here. 

I love making zines but I’m terrible at distributing them. If you’d like a copy of anything not online, get in touch – especially if you’re up for a zine swap. 

 


bin burn bury (2022)

Got me through another tunnel: zine-making-as-therapy. Rituals for release, composting and some very odd photos.

 

 

b&w ink drawing of a flowing figure
 

listen the harpies are calling, they call (2021) 

Recipes and stories from a year around my kitchen table. Extra poignant given that the year was 2019: there haven’t been many people around the kitchen table since. 

 

 

 

black and white photograph of a leaf imprint in paving slabs
 

leaves ghosts (2020) 

Memories in paving slabs. Made as a contribution to Joanna Walsh’s pandemic project Zines in Dark Times. 

 

 

 

 black and white collage of dictionary pages

all the things he said (and the time it took to reply) (2018) 

Such bad poetry it makes me cringe. But it was also a work of patience, practice and gut-tangled feeling that got me through some difficult stuff. 

 

 

 

 an email from a participant in Unfolding Theatre's Putting the Band Back Together

Stories from the House Band (2017) 

Made for Unfolding Theatre to celebrate their participatory show Putting the Band Back Together. Edited by me, it’s a collection of stories from the people who joined the show as backing musicians, told in their own words. Also available online.  

 

 fuzzy black and white sketch of pine trees

  

Forest/from the edge of the fringe (2016) 

A double-fronted zine, one of two I made in quick response to work at the Edinburgh festival (the other was in 2014). This one features Hot Brown Honey, Seiriol Davies, Lung Theatre and Deborah Pearson. 

 

 

 yellow background with white geometric shape

Where the City Meets the Stage (2014)

Commissioned by the LIFT festival as a promotional brochure, but reads more like an art house version of the Guardian Guide. Edited by me, scintillating design by Lukas Muellner, texts by Andy Field, Mary Paterson, Lara Pawson, David Rosenberg, Samantha Ellis, and an interview with Young Jean Lee. Available online.