New In: Frida and I Don't Know What I'm Writing About by Stephen James

Prolific Manchester writer Stephen James has sent us a couple of tiny zines, Frida and I Don't Know What I'm Writing About. You can find out more about him and his work over at http://folknwords.tumblr.com/.

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

New In: Last Train to Eastleigh #1 and #2

Both issues of the indie-pop fanzine 'Last Train to Eastleigh' arrived ages ago but for some reason I hadn't got around to posting about them. Includes stuff about the Southampton indie-pop scene, reviews of some records and gigs and things like that. All in one A4 sheet of paper!

New in: 13 issue one

Azra Page says that her zine, '13' "is focused on art based around the fantasy world in my head. This world is made up of thirteen universes. I draw abstract pictures in sharpie, make collages and paint these universes".

http://insomniaincazrapage.wordpress.com/

New in: Time

"Time I is a continuation of a zine I published in 2001, using journal entries from 2013. The entries within cover everything from having moved here in 2012, the personalities I encounter at my job and in my personal life, the way ideas circulate on the Internet, unsent letters to friends, letters sent by friends, countless postscripts, functioning in the real world at a distant reserve, and more."

http://a--verdade.tumblr.com/

New in: Headpress 2.1 and 2.6

"The infamous Headpress flagship quarterly, the Headpress journal, is available both online as an outrageously free Headzine and also a collector edition. The collector edition has exclusive content, is a full colour limited edition hardback of 250 copies only, with each one individually stamped and numbered."

Issue 2.6 is "a Holiday Special bumper edition of Headpress. Part one is devoted to the contemporary Grand Guignol, and the second part the landscape of the counterculture by way of some of its books and publishers."

http://www.worldheadpress.com/headzine-16.html

New in: Opinionated Nobody #5

Opinionated Nobody is a personal zine written by Rebecca, who lives in Barnsley. This is the fifth issue of the zine and features articles on growing vegetables, Ryan Adams, Sheffield Zine Fest, douchebag comedians and the alternative to douchebag comedians and lots more good stuff.

http://sullen-hearts.blogspot.co.uk/

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/

New in: David Shit: Poems 2012 - 2013

A selection of poems from 2012 - 2013 about desire and its place within the constant flow of life and death, not only as experienced by us day to day but also seen with the forensic eye of a scientist or the long view of a historian.

David is an unpublished writer from Sydney and mainly writes poetry and short articles. He is interested in the physical world, and how the story of science tells us this, forms and influences our emotional worlds.

http://davidshit.net/

http://davidshit.net/webstore1/