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Typewronger Books - an indie bookshop on Leith Walk that has run the Edinburgh Zine Fair since 2019 when we took over from founder Rosalind Gibb. We run a free events program at the shop, and also have our own risograph print studio at Edinburgh Palette.
Edinburgh Palette - Edinburgh Palette is a charity operating St Margaret's House, a studio complex with a large community of artists, musicians, dancers, crafters and various other folk. We are incredibly pleased that they are the venue for this year's Edinburgh Zine Fair!
Frannie-Gee - Francesca is a Maltese illustrator and picturebook maker, heightening everyday life and the mundane through whimsical and emotional characters and narratives. She creates illustrations using layers and shadows, and alters the book form to tell stories. Her work often focuses on themes surrounding inclusivity, mental health, and well-being. At the Edinburgh Zine Fair, she will present tunnel books, concertina books,altered book sculptures, limited edition prints,coasters, and a selection of paper craft ornaments and bookmarks.
Peakrill Press - Indie publisher in the North Pennines.
David T Dunlop - Davidt Dunlop makes zines about 'outsiders'. He likes to draw cats, ghosts and monsters. His current books feature economically disadvantaged spirits, a lonely mollusc and goat girl who always happens to be in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong people...
Hanna Bergren - Glasgow based illustrator specialising in making daft wee zines about niche topics such as elephant shrews, mushrooms and really ugly Medieval animal art. I also write the comic Birdface – a story about a wee guy with the face of a bird and person hands. I particularly enjoy drawing animals wearing shoes.
Lydia Davies - an artist and writer based in Glasgow. She devises narrative-driven works preoccupied with interpersonal dynamics, bodily experiences, and the sifting and shifting exploits of voice and narration.At the Edinburgh Zine Fair she will share her short stories and handmade artist books, including 'New sheets', which follows the narrator’s optimistic mood after changing the bedding, and 'Cracking up', a short story that scrambles the diverging meanings of its title; cracking up in laughter and breaking into pieces.
Mits Makes - Mitra (Mits Makes) is a Malaysian multidisciplinary artist based in Edinburgh, passionate about creating small, quirky and colourful zines, just like her! Mits' zines are a medium of radical expression; they embrace and empower various themes including sexuality, disability and cultural heritage. Expect vibrant zines that serve as a testament to self-acceptance and self-expression.
Mardale Studios - Mardale Studios is Caroline, who makes personal zines around broad themes of identity, love and loss using paper, pen and pritt-stick. Other interests include dogs, nature, netflix and naps.
The Edinburgh Zine Library - Edinburgh Zine Library is a collectively run, DIY library of zines. As well as managing a growing collection of over 400 zines, EZL run workshops and events and organise the Edinburgh Zine Festival at Fruitmarket. EZL was founded in 2017 and up until recently were hosted by Edinburgh Central Library. Now they are on the hunt for a new home, and in the meantime are popping up at venues and events around the city. Over June, you can find many of their queer zines at Dreadnought in Leith. For Edinburgh Zine Fair, they'll be bringing some zines from their collection, as well as information about getting involved, so if you've always fancied zine librarianship but didn't know where to start, come along and have a blether.
Interpret is Scotland's new magazine of international literature: open to anyone, anywhere, in any language. We showcase the best contemporary writers in Scotland alongside new poems, stories, and interviews from around the world. Authors featured in Interpret include winners of the International Booker Prize, the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, and writers including Max Porter.Publication in multiple languages is key to that work. We always publish in the original and English translation, and all authors are offered payment for their work. Our latest issue, Interpret 9, includes new writing from Eritrea, Belarus, and Ethiopia, with new poems from Edinburgh-based writers like Alyson Kissner, winner of the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. Annual subscriptions are available at a discount price at the Zine Fair, so don't forget to purchase yours!
Jessica Crisp makes Zines from her drawings and poems as love letters to the animals in her life, exploring the ambiguity in humans relationships with animals, made expendable in the maintenance of modern civilised society, for our comfort, sport and food. A printmaker, she plays with layering processes in her Zines, often starting with Riso print and layering the pieces with Botanical dyeing, Lino, Intaglio print and Screen print.
Tawnya Selene Renelle is a self published experimental poet and educator. Her work interrogates the body, love, sex, and more. She is excited to showcase her newest book Etiquette for Strumpets, a tongue and cheek collection of writing and photography to help the basest of women understand their true feminine nature ; )
Haunted Girlfriend (Dougie Kennedy) is a photographer, artist, and self-proclaimed Sovereign of Smut. His magazines are packed full of the sexiest folks in honest and fragile portraits with a touch of humour. He uses polaroids, 35mm film, digital drawings, and more to create books that are sure to bring a sly grin to your face.
Emily-Rose is an Edinburgh based writer and co-founder of Triptych magazine. She has written for several blogs and publications over the years including Student Life Guide, The New Idealist, KPMG's Highlights magazine and music magazine The Guestlist Network. She will have copies of her latest poetry anthologies for sale, as well as collaborative projects involving short stories in Jazz Mafia Project Vol. II and The Profile of Love with Constantine.. the artist.
Agitate Gallery - A NEW HUB FOR PHOTOGRAPHY IN EDINBURGH
Based at 20 Haymarket Terrace, we celebrate pictures in all their forms and support those who make them. Through our gallery, book shop and event space, we want to change the landscape of photography in Scotland by making it easier for lens-based artists to show and sell their work. We stock a range of photo wares including books, zines, prints and film; host artist studios and shared facilities; and provide affordable space hire for a range of creative purposes.
AGITATE is open Wednesday - Sunday at 20 Haymarket Terrace, 12 – 6PM.
Brise-glace (2020-2030) is a ten-year self-publishing project by artist and writer Dominique Rivard. Specific interests of the collection explore: northern autofiction, multiplication of the self, real and fictional storytelling of wandering and signals between texts and images. Brise-glace believes books are meeting places.
H0ST is a Zine about graveyards, ghosts, art and things that generally make people feel a bit weird when they're alone and it's just stopped raining. This Zine is designed to be demolished - it comes apart to become art, field guide or sketchbook, as transient as the ghosts within its pages.H0ST is spawned from a pinkish soup containing the following: An obsession with real-life ghost stories; an appreciation of church buildings as art and reclaimed third space; a lifetime of queer otherness and an unironic love for a good 'Spot the Difference.'
Mark Lewis edited, wrote and illustrated Goth Zines back in Wales in the early 2000s and is returning to the world of Zines. In the meantime he has had over twenty-five short stories and plenty of poems published in the Independent Press and regularly takes part in spoken word events such as Poetry & Pints and Rock the Boat in Edinburgh and the surrounding areas. His first new Zine, of contemporary Haiku made with Riso, Flyku, is now in its second printing and will be on sale at the Zine Fair. Mark will also be debuting a new Zine at the Zine Fair! Despite making Zines back in the day this is his first time tabling at a Zine Fair!
Ghost Bros Photography Co. dabbles in the fun, fun, fun world of double-exposure photography. Originally from Los Angeles, but now based in Leith, they will be selling zines and small prints of pictures taken over the last 7 years around Europe and the US. Having to rely on sunshine to make these pictures work, GBPC has been made up of years of trial and error efforts. They believe in playfulness, dilettantism, and that making art should be for all!
