New In: The Chapess #4

The brilliant Cherry Styles edited The Chapess now has a fourth issue (it's a special 26 page A4 edition), and we've got a copy of it in the library now! It includes contributions from the following people:

Aimee Wall
Alexis Gross
Kara Jesella
Sara Sutterlin
Daisy Lafarge
Liz Kinnamon
Stella Lueng
Sarah Todd
Grace Denton
Jesse Riggins
Lauren Crow
Charlotte Mellor Meecham
Alice Slater
Beth Maiden
Anneliese Mackintosh
Charly Morris
Hannah Buckman
Cherry Styles

http://synchronisewitches.bigcartel.com/product/the-chapess-zine-4

The Chapess Zine #5 Launch

We're dead excited to be hosting the launch for the new issue of the Chapess Zine!

Issue 5 features poetry, prose, illustration + photography by Jessie Askinazi, Sara Sutterlin, Suxy X, Inma Lorente, Lauren Cook, Ele-Beth Little, Gabby Guiliano, Cheyenne Sophia and more! Zines will be available on the day to buy and swap as well as info on how to get involved with our next issue.

Drop in for zine making with Cherry Styles in 'the nook' at Nexus Art Cafe from 12pm-5pm and pay a visit to the Zine Library while you're here! Materials provided, but feel free to bring along anything you want to use. Suitable for beginners and zine pros alike - bring your friends!

Find out more about the zine at thechapess.tumblr.com or tweet us @thechapesszine. There's a Facebook event page HERE for you to share with all your friends.

New In: The Chapess #3: The Work Issue

24 page A5 B&W zine with essays and illustrations on juggling jobs, teaching, freelancing, going back to work after having a baby, music, publishing, influence and inspiration. Some of the covers are pink, some are yellow.

Karis Upton
Riese Bernard
Cáit Fahey
Jen Steiner
Grace Hong
Jo Stafford
Molly Davy
Eileen Myles
Cherry Styles
Sophie Cooper
Zara Gardner
Abbi Cudden
Donna Shapiro

You can buy copies of the Chapess at http://synchronisewitches.bigcartel.com/. Cherry Styles, one of the co-editors of the zine, is doing an exhibition of her photographic work in Hebden Bridge at the end of March. Details here! There's also a call out for submissions for the next issue of the Chapess that you can look at here.

New in: The Chapess issue one

Re-issue of the first issue of the Chapess (2011) - a collective zine edited by Zara Gardner

Text and illustrations by

Ruby Ratafia
Misty Pane
Anna Anon
Betsy Hatter
Beth Morrison
Lucy Abel
Hels Belles
Cherry Styles
A. Stone
Deb O'Nair
Loretta De La Coeur
Zara Gardner

Buy it from here!

New in: The Chapess issue 2: Wonder Women

The second issue of the Chapess zine, edited by Zara Gardner and Cherry Styles.

17 contributors over a whopping 51 pages -

Lizzie Campbell
Helen Entwistle
Natalie Bradbury
Kay Richards
SMG
Beth Morrison
Helen Piercy
Gemma Correll
Adam Doughty
Becky Garratt
Christa Harris
Miriam Nice
Vicki Johnson
Nicola Renshaw
Joy Martin
Cherry Styles
Zara Gardner

Buy it from here!

New in: The Shrieking Violet #21

The 21st issue of Manchester's favourite The Shrieking Violet marks four years of the zine. Editor Natalie Bradbury has compiled contributions from the likes of Dominic Oliver, Roxy Brennan, Cherry Styles, Paul Gallagher and loads more talented people. There are 28 pages of photographs, articles, illustrations and recipes.

The zine is available to view, for free, online.

http://theshriekingviolets.blogspot.co.uk/