Category: Books

  • MANIFEST (zine): Endemic

    MANIFEST (zine): Endemic

    On May 24, 2022, an 18-year-old with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle fatally shot nineteen students and two teachers, and wounded seventeen other people, at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The victims were Makenna Lee Elrod, 10, Layla Salazar, 11, Maranda Mathis, 11, Nevaeh Bravo, 10, Jose Manuel Flores Jr., 10, Xavier Lopez, 10, Tess…

  • Huzzah! Broken Pencil!

    Huzzah! Broken Pencil!

    HUZZAH! BROKEN PENCIL! Broken Pencil Magazine has been supporting zine culture and independent creative action for more than 25 years. Published four times a year, each issue of Broken Pencil features reviews of hundreds of zines and small press books, plus comics, excerpts from the best of the underground press, interviews, original fiction and commentary…

  • It’s a Collaborative Effort, Really

    It’s a Collaborative Effort, Really

    MANIFEST (zine) #7: Water The water and its shoreline has been home to all of the creative people you are about to meet in this issue of MANIFEST [zine]. The theme – Water – was inspired by the release of Water Under the Bridge: A Sort-of Love Story by Jen Payne, and is a collaborative…

  • A Tale of Two Stories in Guilford, CT

    A Tale of Two Stories in Guilford, CT

    Guilford Art Center (Guilford, CT) is currently hosting a tale of two stories about connections made across the world wide web, and together they weave a story of lost histories and creative bravery. On Valentine’s weekend, Guilford Art Center hosted a fun and electric book signing for local author Jen Payne’s new book Water Under…

  • Read Water Under the Bridge Today!

    Read Water Under the Bridge Today!

    Connecticut writer Jen Payne has long been inspired by those life moments that move us most — love and loss, joy and disappointment, milestones and turning points — and her new book WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE: A SORT-OF LOVE STORY tells of such a moment. It’s a conversation, a memoir, a love story — just…

  • February 12: BOOK SIGNING & ART EXHIBIT

    February 12: BOOK SIGNING & ART EXHIBIT

    Saturday, February 12, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.BOOK SIGNING & ART EXHIBITat Guilford Art Center411 Church Street, Guilford, CT • Book Signing with writer Jen Payne• “Bigger on the Inside,” exhibit by cover artist Sarah Zar• Free and open to the community Connecticut writer Jen Payne has long been inspired by those life moments that…

  • Author reaches out to old love online, writes about it in new novel

    Author reaches out to old love online, writes about it in new novel

    by Susan Braden, CT Insider/Shoreline Times, February 4, 2022 Reconnecting with a long-lost love online is not a new story — but it’s one that still captures the imagination of many people. What if? — that’s the big question that Branford writer Jen Payne aims to answer in her new novel, Water Under The Bridge:…

  • WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE: A SORT-OF LOVE STORY, A New Book by Jen Payne

    WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE: A SORT-OF LOVE STORY, A New Book by Jen Payne

    Saturday, February 12, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.BOOK SIGNING & ART EXHIBITat Guilford Art Center411 Church Street, Guilford, CT • Book Signing with writer Jen Payne• “Bigger on the Inside,” exhibit by cover artist Sarah Zar• Free and open to the community Connecticut writer Jen Payne has long been inspired by those life moments that…

  • New Book! Save the Date!

    New Book! Save the Date!

    Saturday, February 12, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.BOOK SIGNING & ART EXHIBITat Guilford Art Center411 Church Street, Guilford, CT • Book signing with writer Jen Payne• Art exhibit by cover artist Sarah Zar• Free and open to the community WATCH FOR DETAILS, COMING SOON!

  • Zoom in!

    Zoom in!

    ZOOM IN! In his clever, colorful book Zoom, illustrator Istvan Banyai invites the reader to see the bigger picture. Zoom in, zoom out – what do you see? what do you think you see? what are you really looking at? What are we really looking at in these warped and ever-changing days? Come along as…

  • MANIFEST (zine): Zoom Zoom Zoom!

    MANIFEST (zine): Zoom Zoom Zoom!

    Manifest (zine) #6 – Lexicon Zoom What I love most about MANIFEST (zine) is how each issue takes me — and ultimately you — on a journey of connected thoughts, images, and ideas. Thank you for joining me as we explore topics like change and transition, solitude, time, storytelling, and finding refuge in these turbulent…

  • Zine Review: Manifest (zine) #1

    Zine Review: Manifest (zine) #1

    Originally posted on Sea Green Zines: Manifest (zine) #1 Jennifer Payne 1 Page Folded https://3chairspublishing.com https://linktr.ee/jenpayne Manifest (zine) #1 is a full colour 1-page-folded mini-zine that explores the theme of divine intervention in the forms of poetry, collage, and art. This is the kind of paper that makes me want to pet zines. Manifest (zine)…