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Zine Machine @zinemachine.bsky.social · 10h

✨Zine artist feature!!✨ David Handforth is an artist and photographer working in Richmond, Virginia. His practice explores sexual dynamics and social parodies present throughout queer history.
Follow him at @david_handforth on IG and don’t miss his zine in the VSC Edit, out now!

Potency, Technology, and Masculinity
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Zine Machine @zinemachine.bsky.social · 1d

✨Zine artist feature!✨ Gina Martucci (she/her) is a queer poet, writer, and English teacher. She writes about stigma, family, friendship, relationship dynamics, gender roles, & religion.
Follow @gina_martucci23 on IG and don’t miss her zine, “Tanka for Imposter Syndrome,” in The VSC Edit, out now!

Tanka for Imposter Syndrome
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Zine Machine @zinemachine.bsky.social · 1d

✨Zine artist feature!✨ En En Hsu is a Taiwanese novelist. She is the author of “變成的人” (“The Becoming”) - winner of 2024 TLA New Bud Award & “在女與公之間” (“In Between: The Woman and The Public”).
Follow her at @enenhsu_tw on IG and don’t miss her zine, “Goodnight Taiwan,” in The VSC Edit, out now!

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Zine Machine @zinemachine.bsky.social · 2d

✨Zine Artist feature!!✨ Sylvie Mayer is a painter whose work explores performance, interior spaces, and loss. Follow her at @sylviemayer.bsky.social and check out her zine, “Untitled,” in The VSC Edit, out now!!

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Zine Machine @zinemachine.bsky.social · 3d

✨Zine artist feature!✨ Roger Kim is a multi-disciplinary artist and the creator of puri [풀이] zine. Follow @rodgepodgemusic on IG and check out his zine, “부적/매듭 bujeok/maedeup,” in The VSC Edit at zinemachine.com!

부적/매듭
Talisman / knot
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*art by real humans

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Zine Machine @zinemachine.bsky.social · 4d

✨✨ICYMI—our 10/1 launch was a DOUBLE ISSUE drop!! Our bonus issue, The VSC Edit, includes writers and artists who made zines with us this summer at Vermont Studio Center. Read the entire issue online now, and stay tuned for VSC artist features! ✨✨

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The VSC Edit
Sylvie Mayer
Rachel Dorsey
En En Hsu
Gina Martucci
David Handforth
Roger Kim
Kristen Renee
Miller
Miriam Calleja
Kris Kalinowski
LA Marks

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Nancy The Catgirl 😺she/her)🇨🇦🏳‍⚧⚧ @anekonamednancy.bsky.social · 9d

The importance of radical zines, courtesy of.... a radical zine

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Zine Machine @zinemachine.bsky.social · 5d

You’ve been asking… and it’s now! Submissions are open via Submittable for Zine Machine’s Winter ‘26 Edit. All details in bio! 🔥🔥🔥

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Now reading for...
The
Winter '26 Edit

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Zine Machine @zinemachine.bsky.social · 5d

Art by real humans. Description by robots.

#zinemachine
• Meta Al
Zine Machine refers to two related entities: an online literary magazine and a physical zine vending machine.
The online platform features art and writings created by human artists and offers free zines that can be read online. The physical vending machine distributes small zines, accepting submissions from creators with specific size and content guidelines. Zine Machine also hosts events, such as workshops and launch parties, to promote zine creation and self-publishing.
Zine Machine's mission revolves around promoting DIY culture, supporting independent artists, and fostering community through zine-making. They provide resources, including customizable zine templates and illustration generators, to help creators get started.
Some notable events include 1:
• A workshop on publishing one's own zine at the ODU
Literary Festival on October 7
• A launch party at Tomorrow Bookstore on October 10
• Zine Machine's participation in the ODU Literary
Festival from October 7 to 8

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Zine Machine @zinemachine.bsky.social · 6d

I mean, NOT YET ☠️

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Zine Machine @zinemachine.bsky.social · 7d

Chill Subs says good things.
Flair by @miriamcalleja.bsky.social ✨✨

One of “15 Lit Mags
That Are About to Change Everything” Chill Subs

Zine Machine
USA
Both an online lit mag AND a literal vending machine. They celebrate zine culture through quarterly pop-ups at indie bookstores across the region.
Finalists

15 Lit Mags
That Are About to Change Everything
Our Lit Mag Incubator Winners & Finalists

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Kristen Renee Miller @kristenmiller.bsky.social · 8d

All I know to do when things are Very Bad is make art with more artists. I hope my little lit mag @zinemachine.bsky.social (launched today!), brings you what it’s brought me—an insistence that there’s so much brilliance, cleverness, humor, & beauty. That it’s never far away.🩷
zinemachine.com/the-mag

Read — Zine Machine

Our launch issue is LIVE!! Read zines made by real (paid!) human artists in Zine Machine's Summer '25 Edit, out now.

zinemachine.com

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Zine Machine @zinemachine.bsky.social · 8d

Rounding out our launch issue, it’s ✨LA Marks!✨ LA is a professional typewriter poet of 14 years + counting, a student of ancestral poetics, creative capacity builder, entrepreneur + artist + activist. She is the founder and Chief Poetic Officer of Ars Poetica.
Read her zine, NOW at zinemachine.com✨

How to be your self
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*art by real humans

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Zine Machine @zinemachine.bsky.social · 9d

✨Zine artist reveal!✨ Erin Dorney lives in Western New York and has authored a book of epistolary poems addressed to Yoga with Adriene, a book of Shia LaBeouf erasures, & many zines.
Follow her at @erindorney.bsky.social & don’t miss her zine, “Artist Residencies I Wish Existed,” dropping TOMORROW!

Artist Residencies I Wish Existed
By Erin Dorney
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Zine Machine @zinemachine.bsky.social · 9d

✨Zine artist reveal!✨ Larry Law is an artist and the Executive Director of GLIBA booksellers assoc. With a passion for art, literature & community, he champions independent bookstores across the Midwest.
Follow @larrylaw.bsky.social and don’t miss his zine, “Skulls Are Friends,” dropping TOMORROW! 🙌

Skulls Are Friends
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*art by real humans

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Zine Machine @zinemachine.bsky.social · 10d

✨Zine artist reveal!✨ Minda Honey is the author of The Heartbreak Years. She writes a newsletter about being mid(life) on Substack. Follow her at @mindahoney.bsky.social and don’t miss her zine, “Thoughts Liberated from My Notes* App,” in the Summer ‘25 Edit, dropping this week!

Thoughts Liberated from My Notes App Zine Machine
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Zine Machine @zinemachine.bsky.social · 11d

We did it @tacobellquarterly.org, we started a lit mag 🔥🔥🔥

Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · Jun 26

There is no God, start a literary magazine

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Zine Machine @zinemachine.bsky.social · 11d

✨Zine artist reveal!✨ Miriam Calleja is an award-winning poet, writer, editor, workshop leader, and translator. Follow her at @miriamcalleja.bsky.social and don’t miss her zine, “Moth Against Light,” in our Summer ‘25 Edit, dropping next week!

Moth Against Light
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*art by real humans

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Zine Machine @zinemachine.bsky.social · 12d

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Lindsay Lusby @lindsaylusby.bsky.social · 12d

I’m super psyched for this new publication that is an online mag AND a literal vending machine that dispenses awesome zines made by real artists. If you’re in the Indianapolis area, you can visit one of the actual zine machines at Tomorrow Bookstore. (I really wish I lived closer 😭)

Zine Machine @zinemachine.bsky.social · 12d

✨Zine artist reveal!✨ Lindsay Lusby is a poet, editor, writing coach, letterpress printer, and graphic designer who loves to experiment with all forms of art at the intersection of text and image. Don’t miss her zine, “A Brief History of Perfect Happiness,” in our Summer ‘25 Edit!

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Zine Machine @zinemachine.bsky.social · 12d

CC: @lindsaylusby.bsky.social 💖

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Zine Machine @zinemachine.bsky.social · 12d

✨Zine artist reveal!✨ Lindsay Lusby is a poet, editor, writing coach, letterpress printer, and graphic designer who loves to experiment with all forms of art at the intersection of text and image. Don’t miss her zine, “A Brief History of Perfect Happiness,” in our Summer ‘25 Edit!

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Zine Machine @zinemachine.bsky.social · 12d

CC: @lindsaylusby.bsky.social 💖

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Zine Machine @zinemachine.bsky.social · 12d

Hi, hello, happy weekend! We’re celebrating with the first ✨zine artist reveal.✨ Kris Kalinowski (they/them) creates original analog artwork under the name artsnfartsnkris. Check out their zine, “To Be Me,” in the Summer ‘25 Edit, dropping next week!

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Zine Machine @zinemachine.bsky.social · 16d

We love New York! ☺️ If a bookseller or small biz wants to host a ZM pop-up, reach out at the link in our bio!