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Call for Submissions: Weird Gay Eats

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).

Link to this document: https://tinyurl.com/WeirdGayEats 

Link to sign up for an optional Work-In-Progress session: https://forms.gle/nnkz9CC7Z3gDT2iw8 

Link to submit: https://forms.gle/RUJiQUeRKZ4ASzDS6 (see deadline at bottom of document)

NEUROQUEERNESS:

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:

  1. What is your favorite story about food that’s always resonated with you? Why?
  2. What is your relationship with food? What role does it play in your life? 
  3. 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? 
  4. 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

Link to join our WIP sessions

Sign up to attend one or more (optional) WIP sessions.

DEADLINE:

Your submissions are welcome until Saturday, November 15 at 11:59PM EST / Sunday, November 16 at 10:29AM IST.

Submit your work.

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ZineWriMo Day 7: Refill the Well – Read Zines

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!

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Other Participants:

*Hadass – https://hadass420.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/zinewrimo-2025-glue-paper-scissors
*True Zine Marin – https://www.instagram.com/truezinemarin
*You? Let me know if you’re joining in!

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ZineWriMo Day 6: Zine Supplies Stash

Hello, zine friends!

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.

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Other Participants:

*Hadass – https://hadass420.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/zinewrimo-2025-glue-paper-scissors
*True Zine Marin – https://www.instagram.com/truezinemarin
*You? Let me know if you’re joining in!

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ZineWriMo Day 5: Work In Progress Wednesday

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!

Other Participants:

*Hadass – https://hadass420.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/zinewrimo-2025-glue-paper-scissors
*True Zine Marin – https://www.instagram.com/truezinemarin
*You? Let me know if you’re joining in!

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Happy Mail Monday – Phoenix Productions Edition

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

Awesome People:

*Phoenix Productions – 5:50
**https://linktr.ee/phoenixprods
**https://www.youtube.com/@FANzineLiveGuy

Other Awesomeness:

*ZineWrimo – https://seagreenzines.com/zinewrimo-2

*Rich of Feral Publication – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqkHGWfc44M5znpDg5adSog

You Can Find Me At:
seagreenzines@gmail.com
http://www.seagreenzines.com

Channel art by Latibule: https://ko-fi.com/juunikko

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Call for Zine-Related Things!

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. 

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ZineWriMo 2025 Calendar!

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.

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Happy Mail Monday – Stickers and Sweetness Edition

Hello zine friends! My goodness do we have some gorgeous stickers today along with some beautiful, colourful zines to check out.

As always, thank you for watching.

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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

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Awesome People:

*True Zine Marin – 8:05
**https://www.instagram.com/truezinemarin

*Emmett Bear – 16:45
**https://www.instagram.com/taj.lilbear
**https://www.youtube.com/@emmettlilbear

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Other Awesomeness:

*Rough Draft Challenge – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCaw_lpKJoM

*ZineWrimo – https://seagreenzines.com/zinewrimo-2

*Sticker Robot – https://stickerobot.com/

*Juunikko – https://www.twitch.tv/juunikko

*April – https://www.instagram.com/april_does_art

*Foul Mouth Maker – https://www.instagram.com/foulmouthmaker

*Alexia Cousineau – https://www.instagram.com/alexia.cousineau

*Camryn –

*Amna Wali – https://www.instagram.com/a_w_y_art

*Kendra Jackson – https://www.instagram.com/kendra_jackson444

*Naomi Robinson

*Darius –

*Alex G. – https://www.instagram.com/alexandria.gervais

*Alexandre Fishbein-Ouimette – https://www.instagram.com/alexandre.fo

*Maxwell O’Toole – https://www.instagram.com/maxwellwriteswell

*Knock Off Bowie – https://www.instagram.com/knockoffbowie

*Jessica Somers – https://www.instagram.com/focalpointartistry

*Jenn Mezei – https://www.instagram.com/rainbowfarmnorth

*Simon Mckerral – https://www.instagram.com/nibbledleaves

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You Can Find Me At:

seagreenzines@gmail.com

http://www.seagreenzines.com

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Channel art by Latibule: https://ko-fi.com/juunikko

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Zine Review: Urban Legends

Urban Legends
Edited & Published by Kali Kambouroglos (Mythical Type)
32 pages
https://mythicaltype.com
https://ko-fi.com/mythicaltype


Urban Legends is a quarter-sized black and white zine collection of art and writing about legends, myths, and folklore.

Tis the season for some strange, some spooky, and some otherworldly goodness. Plus in zine form? Yes please.

Urban Legends opens with an easy-to-read (ever more important as I get older and my eyes get worse) table of contents complete with links for most of the contributors for this issue. From there we launch into things with a creepy, sing-song sort of piece with ‘Strange Little May’.

The zine is filled with short pieces and art. I like how some of the pieces are short introductions that double as invitations to look deeper into the subject should the reader want to do so. (I may have done some nosing around about what a homunculus is.) I especially enjoyed Kali’s piece on The Fulton Theatre, as I’m always interested in a potentially haunted location.

I also love how some of the pieces come not only with who they are by but also with a location as well. I’m always fascinated by the different myths and legends from around the world, so it’s a fun detail to have that added in when possible. (Also, I found it curious that the UK has a superstition about magpies – “Mr. Magpie” by Kaci O’Meara – but Australians don’t seem to!)

The zine wraps up with an editor’s note that includes some facts about how the zine was made. Little touches like these are always fun to me. I’m always curious about how people create these zines.

Urban Legends is an interesting zine that gives a lot of tasters that make me want to take a lot of deeper dives into things. As far as I know, there isn’t a second Urban Legends, but I hope there is in the future. I need more zines like this!