Hello, wonderful zine friends! We have a nice, long video for you today full of amazing zines (and stickers!) from around the world to have a look at today.
As always, thank you for watching.
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Sea Green Zines / PO Box 378 / Murray Bridge, SA 5253 / Australia
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HEY KARAOKE FANS! Looking for a great holiday gift for the karaoke-lover in your life? Try this combination set of Local Vocals: Your Guide To Kick Ass Karaoke and its sequel, Kick-Ass Karaoke #2!
Are you all about karaoke, or not sure how to try? Either way, get right to it with Local Vocals! Discover why you should sing karaoke, pick up some karaoke tips, learn about the types of karaoke singers, and figure out how to interact with various kinds of audience members. There’s tips to go all-out for your song, and find out how not to be a jerk at karaoke.
In the follow-up (November 2025), sing out loud with Kick-Ass Karaoke #2! Choose songs by your current vibe, go on a karaoke text adventure, and find out why you should bring a date to karaoke! Consider “what is karaoke?”, think about your karaoke history, and learn about karaoke singers in the wild.
Get bold! Get loud! Kick some ass at karaoke with Local Vocals and Kick-Ass Karaoke #2!
Only five dollars for both zines–hit Kari up at SweetMayhemZinery on Instagram for more info, or PayPal $5 with your address to shardsofglassinyoureye@gmail.com!
WEIRD GAY EATS is a new, free internet zine about neuroqueer people’s relationship to food, edited by Jyotsna Ramesh (@jojorambles, she/her) and Julie Setele (@jujubeees.zines, they/them).
Being neuroqueer means that you are neurodivergent & queer & conscious about both those things, especially in relationship to each other (it’s OK if that’s a newly emerging awareness). If you’re interested, you can read Nick Walker’s “Neuroqueer: An Introduction.”
What finally clicked for Julie in thinking about neuroqueerness was that it was (at least in part) about embracing & actively seeking & expanding one’s own weirdness, and they are HERE for that!
INSPIRATION:
This zine is directly inspired by a workshop that Jyotsna led for Queer Zest Zine Fest on Neuroqueer Narratives about food & nourishment. There are so many interesting projects by Neuroqueer individuals looking at food through this lens – Depression Cooking and a lot of zines that deal with the idea of ‘struggle meals’ for example.
To spark your thinking and creating, here are some prompts:
What is your favorite story about food that’s always resonated with you? Why?
What is your relationship with food? What role does it play in your life?
What’s a food process or practice that you’re very comfortable with / experimenting with now / curious about? Is it influenced by / affirmative of your Neuroqueerness in some way? How?
How do your Neuroqueer food practices adapt / intersect with your cultural food lineage / seasonal & geographical food practices / festivity based practices?
FORMAT:
You are welcome to send in narratives that are self-contained in any medium (e.g., essay, poetry, comics, illustrations, collage, any other image-based narrative). We welcome narratives that are specific to your intersectional backgrounds and contexts. We would like to emphasise that neuroqueering can look very different for people, even at different points of time in their lives and there is no one way to do!
Text-based submissions should be a maximum of 750 words and in docx format.
Image-based submissions should be high-resolution (using your phone camera should work well!) and in jpeg or png format.
The zine will be released as a free digital download and also available for anyone to print and distribute.
WORK-IN-PROGRESS SUPPORT:
You are welcome to message us on Instagram with questions or editorial help for your submission.
We will hold four virtual Work-In-Progress (WIP) sessions where we can possibly meet each other as contributors / body-double / share ideas and virtually collaborate & convene before the submission. 🙂 You are invited – but not required – to participate in the WIP sessions.
These WIP sessions will be held on:
Saturday, Nov. 1 from 9AM to 10:30AM EST / 7:30PM to 9PM IST
Wednesday, Nov. 5 from 11AM to 12:30PM EST / 9:30PM to 11PM IST
Saturday, Nov. 8 from 9AM to 10:30AM EST / 7:30PM to 9PM IST
Wednesday, Nov. 12 from 7PM to 8:30PM EST / Thursday, Nov. 13 from 5:30AM to 7AM IST
Happy ZineWriMo day 7, and happy Friday! I don’t know about you, but I am most definitely happy that it is Friday. I am ready for the weekend.
Today takes us smoothly into to the weekend with a little something to refill the creative well. Read some zines and enjoy your night and your weekend ahead!
The bits and bobs zinemakers use to create zines are almost as varied as the zines created. Haha. Today is about showing your stashes of markers, stamps, and/or anything else you have to create zines with it.
In the short below, I briefly show off my set of drawers that holds my washi collection as well as a few other frequently used goodies. If you’d like a closer look in a video at another time, please let me know.
We are well and truly off and rolling with ZineWriMo 2025 and are at our first WIP Wednesday. Square away whatever time you have today for all your creative endeavours. And if you’re posting on Instagram, please feel free to tag me!
Hello, zine friends! Welcome to day 4 of ZineWriMo. Today’s prompt is all about your ideas. Do you store them somewhere? Online? Offline? Both? I give you a peek at my ideas notebook in this YouTube short:
It’s a beautiful day for a new zine friend! And a beautiful day to meet a new-to-me zinetuber. Check out all the goodness from Phoenix Productions.
As always, thank you for watching.
My PO Box: Sea Green Zines / PO Box 378 / Murray Bridge, SA 5253 / Australia
*Like what I do here? Please consider checking out my Ko-Fi page where I post links to videos as well as sell my zines: https://ko-fi.com/seagreenzines
Do you have a call for zine submissions? Have you launched a new zine? Is there a zine event you’d like to shout out? I share all sorts of zine-related goodness here and at www.seagreenzines.com so be sure to email me at seagreenzines@gmail.com if you’d like a signal boost.
My goodness! I’m so sorry for cutting it so close to the line, dear friends. It has been a heck of a month, that’s for sure. But it is here now, and we can get prepared for ZineWriMo 2025!
What’s ZineWriMo then?
If you’re not familiar, ZineWriMo is the zine alternative to (defunct but now reviving?) NaNoWriMo created by Jasper @unclejasperilla. I am another happy participant who decided to dive right in and create a prompts list for the occasion. I try to focus on a list that gives a bit of challenge but isn’t too stressful.
In Jasper’s words:
“ZineWriMo is a new idea that came to me in wanting to combine the original NaNoWriMo and zines!
ZineWriMo is November! We focus on making one, or many, zines in November! Our only goal is to create zines, no word count requirement!“
Dive in, join up, and let’s get ready to zine!
Feel free to email me at seagreenzines@gmail.com if you’d like me to send you the list in PDF or larger .JPG form.
