New In: Cara Josephine - The Official Showgramme

We went up to Edinburgh for a few days of this year's Fringe and were fortunate enough to get tickets to see Josie Long. As we were on our way into the Stand, we were given one of these ace little zines. Josie Long's been making zines for ages, but I think I'm right in saying this is the first one of her's in the library. It includes stuff about music, sea swimming, wealth inequality and loads more.

Josie Long is also the co-founder of the charity Arts Emergency. They do loads of good stuff around supporting young people from disadvantaged backgrounds so that they can do arts and humanities degrees and fulfil their potential and things like that. That's probably an awful summary of what they do, so have a look at their website and see how you can get involved/help.

http://www.arts-emergency.org/

http://www.josielong.com/

New In: Adventures in Menstruating Poetry + Comic Special #1

This super special split issue of Adventures in Menstruating by Chella Quint is half poetry, half comic. We managed to pick ourselves a copy of this up at the Leeds Zine Fair where we picked up loads of other zines too. I'll be posting as many of them as possible up on here over the next few days!

Meanwhile, take a look at the Adventures in Menstruating site while you're waiting.

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/