Video of SZL's new home

Salford Zine Library is now open.

Come visit our new home at Nexus Art Cafe and enjoy reading the zines over a cup of coffee.

2 Dale Street Manchester, M1 1JW

Opening times
Mon to Sat 10am - 7pm
Sunday 12 - 6pm

Booklet Press

Booklet is a small scale press in Tokyo, Japan. 

Contribution:

Before You Forget, Yuta Nakajima
published by Booklet

Land Art & Photographs I took from Facebook, E. Yumul
self-published

http://bookletpress.org/

Contribution:

Fulsome Prism

http://fulsomeprism.wordpress.com/

City Zine

City Zine is a Derby based, open collective committed to provding a platform for anyone who wants to use it.

The ‘Zine is completely unedited and uncensored. They publish articles, poetry, stories, jokes, illustrations, photographs, reviews in fact they’ll publish anything…

Contribution: 

City Zine issues 12,13,14,15


https://czderby.wordpress.com

Crumb Cabin

Crumb Cabin is an independent publishing house focusing on printing limited runs of zine posters, shirts and music.

Contribution: 

How to Buy Happiness by Joey Fourr

http://crumbcabin.tumblr.com/

Jade Montserrat

"My work assumes a vernacular that tears up and cuts out, magnifying symbols that determine, question or potentially threaten aspects of my identity. Photography features as an integral component of my personal practice: crucial as I develop my processes, through drawing, collage and print. Repeated text and imagery act as logos within the works: as a metaphor for branding within an art context, questioning the nature of consumerism, with an emphasis on a personal fascination with everyday aesthetics. The works offer a proliferation of meaning, shift existing perceptions of reality and question the nature of artwork."

Jade Montserrat

Contribution:

Misunderstood Dedication

New home opening soon.

Salford Zine Library's new at Nexus Art Cafe in Manchester's Norther Quarter will open on the 28th June. I am always looking for new donations to fill the space so if you make a Zine or have a collection gathering dust in the attic then your Zines could enrich the archive. Thank you to everyone who has donated Zines to this project so far, without you this project would never have got of the ground. 


To Submit Zines post to:
Salford Zine Library
48 Landos Court
Manchester 
M40 7WT


Craig

tap tap tap tap tap tap tap taap

A zine made using a Barbie typewriter.

http://charliecollisdesign.tumblr.com

The Filth

The Filth Zine is a literary zine by Karley Bayer. Based in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., The Filth Zine is a 20+, full-sized, black and white publication. The binding is sewn by the Filth’s creator, editor and short story contributor Karley Bayer.

Contribution:

The Filth 

Landmark Seizures

http://senderbrocken.tumblr.com/

Everything That Rises Must Converge

Every­thing That Rises Must Con­verge is a group exhi­bi­tion that explores the con­nec­tion between six emerg­ing pho­tog­ra­phers and their neigh­bor­hoods. A dia­logue is formed between these pho­tog­ra­phers and their imme­di­ate sur­round­ings that helps shape their art and is expressed through a per­sonal nar­ra­tive in their work. The pho­tog­ra­phers have become ambas­sadors for their neigh­bor­hoods, com­mu­ni­cat­ing the sto­ries, feel­ings and idio­syn­crasies that sur­round them. This Zine accompanies the exhibition.

Durable Goods

Durable Goods is a print micro-zine that is sent all over the United States and several places internationally as well. It features 2-3 writers an issue that have been invited to participate. This publication remains invitation only. This zine was set up to rekindle the idea of human connection and to retain the romance of the printed word in an age when everything is going digital.


Contribution:
Durable Goods #60,#61,#62,#63


http://www.durablegoodsmicrozine.blogspot.co.uk/

Work has started!

We have started work on Salford Zine Library's new home at Nexus Art Cafe. Thank you to everyone for your support. I will keep you all updated with our progress. 

If you would like to donate your Zine to be housed in SZL new home, then please send contributions to:

SALFORD ZINE LIBRRAY

48 LANDOS COURT 

MANCHETSER

M40 7WT

The Experiment Notebook

http://rurulabo.blogspot.co.uk/

Ont Road

Ont Road features stories from Luke B's personal travels around the world, and also tour reports from his life as a roadie. There are also a plethora of other articles ranging from getting in trouble with the police, non-league football, record, gig, and fanzine reviews. The zine is printed at Footprinters Workers Co-op, and has a print run of 500 copies per issue.

Contribution: Ont Road #17

Just a fiver would be great help in this campaign to re-house Salford Zine Library. Many thanks to everyone who has donated so far.

Donations

Many thanks to everyone who has donated so far. Only 9 days left so please keep spreading the word about the project and the fund raising. http://www.sponsume.com/project/salford-zine-library

Help Salford Zine Library set up it's new home.

Victoria Baths Fanzine Convention

The second Victoria Baths Fanzine Convention will look at how the virtual world is allowing networks of zine makers to share publications, news and experiences all over the world. 

Talks 

'Making a noise: An express ride through the world of punk and riot grrrl fanzines and the UK feminist underground, 1977-2012': Cazz Blase

Cazz Blase wrote the fanzine Aggamengmong Moggie between 1993-1999, Real Girls in 2001 and Harlot's Progress between 2002 - 2006. Along with Holly Combe, she is one of two music review editors at The F-Word website, for which she has written extensively about both women and the UK punk scene and the UK riot grrrl scene. She was a contributing author to the book Riot Grrrl: Revolution Girl Style Now! (Black Dog Publishing, 2007). Cazz is from Stockport and blogs about Manchester and Greater Manchester at http://toolateforcake.wordpress.com. She works as a library assistant at Manchester University.

'Pam Ponders Paul Morley's Cat: The Wired and Wonderful World of City Fun': David Wilkinson

David Wilkinson is a writer, musician, public librarian and PhD student working on the politics of British post-punk. City Fun was a Mancunian countercultural publication founded by Andy Zero in 1978. After Liz Naylor and Cath Carroll joined the editorial team, it became the city's dominant post-punk paper until it folded in 1984.

Rotherham Zine Library will talk about zine libraries (growing physical and online archives of self-published material comprising printed matter of different genres sent in by self-publishers all over the world).

Film

Watch Salford Zine Library's 2011 film Self Publishers of the World Take-over, which features self-publishers from all over the world talking about their work.

Tours

Visitors will be able to take tours of the building.

Workshops

Take part in workshops to make your own zine or contribute to a collective effort that will compile material into a collaborative Victoria Baths Fanzine.

Co-operative printing

2012 is the United Nations' first International Year of Co-operatives. Leeds-based Footprint Workers' Co-operative are bringing along a Risograph and will discuss how to prepare material for print on a Risograph — learn about page imposition, limits on paper size and margins, two colour work and picture quality for the Risograph digital duplicator with a quick guide to communicating with printers.

Co-operative working and living is creative, empowering and potentially radically anti-capitalist.

Find out:

What are co-ops and why should you be in one? Including workers' co-ops, housing co-ops, community co-ops, collective power and common ownership.

'Alice in apps land: explore your smart phone and your environment', presented by Visual Think Map in collaboration with Shift Space.

During this workshop you will discover the local landscape through digital stories and learn more about apps and the functionality of how your phone can enliven the world around you. Through an interactive and engaging tour of the area near Victoria Baths you will discover and digitally collate, using your phone, a variety of people's memories and your own as we introduce you to new apps and narratives, including old photos and memorabilia of the area. We'll finish by making an interactive map where everyone can share what they've made and then print a map. 

'Vapid for a Day' 

Feminist duo Vapid Kitten invite visitors to contribute creatively to a special edition of the fanzine Vapid Kitten (published both in print and for Kindle) which will be compiled throughout the day of the fanzine convention using an array of materials. At the end of the day, Vapid Kitten will have a new zine which will be emailed to everyone who took part. 

Caravan

Nottingham's Caribou, a zine shop in a vintage caravan, will be setting up shop outside the building.

Food 

Norwich-based Deerly Beloved Bakery will be celebrating its first birthday at the Victoria Baths Fanzine Convention, returning with good food that is cruelty free including vegan cakes, whoopie pies, brownies and savoury pies and pizza slices. Deerly Beloved Bakery specialises in vegan cakes, pastries, biscuits, cupcakes, muffins, breads, salads, starters, mains and desserts. It does not use any animal products. All cakes and bakes are made by hand in small batches using real bourbon vanilla, unrefined non-bone char sugars and margarines free from hydrogenated fats. No artificial preservatives or flavourings are used.

Exhibition

Posters of Inspirational European Women: Taken from the zine 'Shape & Situate' 

Leeds-based illustrator and fanzine-maker Melanie Maddison will display a series of posters of inspirational European women around the balcony of the female pool, from her zine entitled 'Shape & Situate. The posters highlight the (often hidden) history and lives of radical, inspirational women and women's collectives from Europe, connecting us with the past, inspiring us in the present and visually bringing women’s social and political history to life and into view.

Stalls

Stalls at the Convention will cost £10. Fanzine-makers (individuals and groups), cartoonists and comic book makers, self-publishing and printing collectives, artists' book makers, independent magazines and representatives from book arts and illustration degree courses are invited to have a stall. To register your interest fill in this short form: www.formstack.com/forms/?1147834-b2nNCHBcVB

If you would be interested in volunteering to help out on the day, please email Natalie.Rose.Bradbury@googlemail.com
For more information, including news and interviews, visit http://www.theshriekingviolets.blogspot.co.uk/p/victoria-baths-fanzine-convention-2012.html.

Fanzine Convention featuring SZL film and Q&A

Lisa Schürmann

Contribution:

Liebste Thorina

lisaschuermann@gmx.net

Canned

Contribution:

Canned #1

Canned #2

http://thenewbridgeproject.com/publications/canned-issue-1/

White Fungus

White Fungus is an art magazine based in Taichung City, Taiwan. Founded by brothers Ron and Mark Hanson in Wellington, in 2004, as a quasi political manifesto, copies of the first issue were produced on a photocopier, wrapped in Christmas paper and hurled anonymously through the entrances of businesses throughout the city. Now a magazine featuring interviews, writing on art, new music, history and politics, White Fungus takes a dialogical approach to the work it covers. The name of the publication comes from a can of “white fungus” the Hansons found in their local supermarket in the industrial zone of Taichung City. Each cover of White Fungus is derived from a scan of the can.


Contribution:
White Fugus Issue 12


http://whitefungus.com

Vapid Kitten

Vapid Kitten is made up of its creator Betsy Lamborn and its co-editor Anna Frew. Vapid Kitten was born as one of Betsy's last projects in the final year of studying Design and Art Direction. It was made to combine her twin interests of feminism and making zines.


The name came about after a portfolio crit with a designer (who shall remain nameless) who referred to Betsy's portfolio as a kitten. But a sad kitten who when your choosing your cat would be left as the last choice. Then the Vapid came about due to Betsy's growing indignation towards the majority of magazines created for women. Whose advertising led editors wrote articles about how we must wear this lipstick opposite a make-up ad... In one of this indignant moments/rants Betsy exclaimed 'its just SO VAPID' and vapid kitten was born!

http://www.vapidmedia.co.uk/

Badweather Press

Badweather Press is an independent publisher founded in 2004 by Robert Roura and Pere Saguer.

Contribution:

Sea Bridge

http://www.badweatherpress.com/

George Butler

http://georgebutler.tumblr.com/

Tooting Zine Fair

The Salford Zine Library Movie will be showing at  Tooting’s 1st Zine Fair on Saturday 25th February 2012.


 http://tootingzines.tumblr.com/

Vanessa Berry

Vanessa is a prolific Sydney, NSW, Australia based artist and zinester, who has published notable one-off and seminal ongoing Australianzines, including Psychobabble (1996-1998), Laughter and the Sound of Teacups (1997-2002) and I am a Camera (1999-).

Contribution:

Disposible Camera

Band T-shirt

I am a Camera #15

http://vanessaberryworld.wordpress.com/

Welmer Keesmaat is a Dutch Photographer, Graphic Designer and founder/editior of YVI MAGAZINE and CONTENTEMENT ART PUBLICATIONS.

Contribution:

Up Close 

http://www.welmerkeesmaat.com/

Jordan O 'Brien

Jordan is an illustrator based in Manchester, England.

Contribution: 

Hard Luck

http://www.jordanobrienillustration.com/

STANDPUNKTE

Informal discussions on contemporary architecture culture.


Contribution:
STANDPUNKTE ONE 
STANDPUNKTE ZWEI 


http://www.standpunkte.org/

Why do you self-publish?

Katie Haegele and Helen Entwisle

This is a 2-in-1 zine, both covers are front covers. one side tells stories of found things the other tells stories of lost things. The zine has 32 sides and is A6 in size. They are constructed by hand, each zine is sewn together with curved corners.

Words are by Katie Haegele and  drawings and screen printed cover by Helen Entwisle (Memo)

http://hellomemo.com/

www.thelalatheory.com

SZL in Leeds

Thanks to everyone at the Leeds Print Festival for a great day and to all those who contributed to the library.

S J Bradley

S J Bradley is a writer of fiction & organiser of the DIY writers' social night Fictions of Every Kind, Leeds.

Contribution: A Stranger Came

http://sjbradleybooks.blogspot.com/

Salford Zine Library @ Leeds Print Festival

Salford ZIne Library will be at the Leeds Print Festival tomorrow come along and say hi. 

Print Fair

Saturday 28^th January 2012, 11am to 6pm.

Exhibitors who work in a diverse range of print media will be at the Print Fair talking about and selling works.

Free entry

http://www.leedsprintfestival.com/

Susan Mortimer

Artist Susan Mortimer  graduated from Camberwell College of the Arts, University of London gaining an MA in Visual Arts  and is currently a member of the Free Birds Studios, Durham.

http://susanamortimer.wordpress.com/

Lottie Pencheon

Lottie Pencheon is an illustrator and print maker from Macclesfield.

http://www.lottiepencheon.com/

d PlsUR of d Txt.

d PlsUR of d Txt is a conceptual work where a work by Roland Barthes called The Pleasure of the Text has been translated into text messaging language. This process was undertaken with the aid of a peer-to peer online database called transl8it.com. In this online space textese users share their latest linguistic creations, something that in turn has been reciprocated at the close of the translation here, allowing a new generation of textese to enter open source.
“There are many different types of intelligence and this book aims to confuse anyone who holds on to our dusty, outdated academic assumptions. This book is an attempt at an Esperanto equivalent for our differing intelligences."
Nick Davis

Contribution: d PlsUR of d Txt.

http://www.the-tuber.co.uk/

Childhood Fears

Angelina Ioannides-Beer is an student studying Illustration at Westminster


Contribution: Childhood Fears


http://angelinabeer.blogspot.com/

Financially Hard Times

The Financially Hard Times is a monthly zine that will be released in various bars around East London. Look out for them as they are limited to just a 100.

http://tomcassonillustration.blogspot.com

Andrea Joseph

Contribution:

How to draw

http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.com/

Lights Go Out Zine

Lights Go Out was born in early 2008.  With the basic ideas of putting together a fun fanzine project which had some cool punk bands involved and would be a useful resource for the punk scene.

http://www.lightsgoout.co.uk/

John Andrews

John Andrews is a Music Photographer based in Preston and Doncaster.

Contribution:

No Pop/No Managers

http://destroyreality.tumblr.com/

http://www.jandrewsphotography.co.uk/

Happy New Year!

Lots in the pipeline for the new year with the library and film going on tour. Would be great to visit you so please get in contact: salfordzinelibrary@gmail.com


I'm always looking for new contributions to the library. Please send work to:


48 LANDOS COURT
MANCHESTER
M40 7WT 
UK


Many thanks to everyone who has been part of this project. Look forward to seeing you in the new year.


Craig

Salford Zine Library now on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/#!/SalfordZineLibr

One Eye Open

ONE EYE OPEN: a new magazine focusing on music, film and culture.

Contrbution:
One Eye Open #1


http://oneeyeopenzine.tumblr.com/

Gag Me With A...

Gag Me With A... is a kitschy DIY charm of a mini zine. With only a word processing program, a printer, scissors & a glues stick, this deliciously quaint b&w photocopied zine is a product of love & papercuts. Made by you, with your help, for you. Just you.

Contribution:

Gag Me With A... Issue 4

Young Fresh and Relevant

Young, Fresh and Relevant is a new ongoing journal of art writing that has no interest in any of the previous adjectives. 

Contribution:

Young Fresh and Relevant  Issue 1# Featuring:

David Berridge
Benjamin Burtenshaw
Elena Colman
Noi Furer
Rebecca Jagoe
Guthrie Mitton-McKellar
Tony Rickaby
Chloe Stead
Becca Voelcker
Paul Wasserman

Young Fresh and Relevant  Issue 2# Featuring:

Ana Brotas
Elena Colman
Pola Fendel
Rae Hicks
Rebecca Jagoe
Catherine Alisa Jones
Grace Miceli
Alice Peragine
Maru Rojas
Liv Schulman

www.youngfreshrelevant.com