Category: Zine

  • It’s International Zine Month!

    It’s International Zine Month!

    HAPPY INTERNATIONAL ZINE MONTH! Come along as we celebrate a month full of zine things! Find out about zines, zine libraries, zine history, how to make your own zine and more! International Zine Month 2023 would not be possible without the lovely Alex Wrekk, who came up with the idea in the first place. Visit…

  • Preview: Heroically Found

    Preview: Heroically Found

    Issue #9, Heroically Found 24-Page, Full-Color, 5 x 7 Booklet + Inserts and Curated Spotify Playlist, $8.00 or subscribe and get 4 issues for $25.00 You can pay through PayPal using a PayPal account or any standard credit card. If you prefer the old school approach, please send your check, made payable to Jen Payne,…

  • NOW ON SALE: MANIFEST (zine): Endemic

    NOW ON SALE: 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. MANIFEST (zine): Endemic is a response that event. The proceeds from this issue will be donated to Sandy Hook Promise, a national nonprofit organization founded…

  • MANIFEST (zine): Divine Intervention

    MANIFEST (zine): Divine Intervention

    Issue #1, DIVINE INTERVENTION What is the force that moves us? Changes us? Propels us with such acceleration that we hardly recognize ourselves. Is it grief, heartbreak, indignation? Or joy, courage, determination? Perhaps it is DIVINE INTERVENTION — masked for our benefit as demon or angel or a hurried white rabbit who intrigues us just…

  • NeW! MANIFEST (zine): CRICKETS

    NeW! MANIFEST (zine): CRICKETS

    MANIFEST ZINEIssue #4, Cricketsby Jen Payne Storytelling is in our DNA says Brené Brown in her book Rising Strong. We share our stories because “we feel most alive when we’re connecting with others and being brave with our stories.” That process, she explains, causes our brains to release cortisol and oxytocin, the chemicals that “trigger…

  • MANIFEST (zine): What’s Old, What’s New, What’s Coming

    Emily Fletcher, author of the awesome book Stress Less, Accomplish More: Meditation for Extraordinary Performance, writes “When we create something — whether it’s dinner for a friend, a presentation at work, a self-published memoir, or a new company — we’re stepping into the unknown and making ourselves vulnerable by putting into concrete terms something we…

  • MANIFEST (zine): It’s About Time

    MANIFEST (zine): It’s About Time

    MANIFEST ZINEIssue #3, It’s About Time!Poems & More by Jen Payne We humans sure are creative with time, aren’t we? This arbitrary turning clocks backward or forward twice a year, assigning time to zones and lines and frames. I myself try to trick time, setting clocks randomly wrong and always fast, as if I can…

  • MANIFEST (zine): Cat lady Confessions

    MANIFEST (zine): Cat lady Confessions

    Issue #2, DIVINE INTERVENTIONPoor Cat Lady. She always gets a bum rap. No one ever makes fun of Ernest Hemingway, whose Key West home was filled with cats — and he of a certain age. His strapping action figure includes a typewriter and a shotgun. Cat Lady? She gets six cats, bed head, and a…

  • MANIFEST (zine): Divine Intervention

    MANIFEST (zine): Divine Intervention

    Issue #1, DIVINE INTERVENTION What is the force that moves us? Changes us? Propels us with such acceleration that we hardly recognize ourselves. Is it grief, heartbreak, indignation? Or joy, courage, determination? Perhaps it is DIVINE INTERVENTION — masked for our benefit as demon or angel or a hurried white rabbit who intrigues us just…

  • What is life without music?

    What is life without music?

    What is life without poetry?What is life without music? Sponsor MANIFEST (zine) today for just $25.00 and get 2 issue of this new art/poetry zine PLUS a FREE Spotify playlist that dances around the themes of change and Divine Intervention. CLICK HERE to learn more, or just…  ONE ISSUEJuly 2020Divine Intervention$5.00 SUBSCRIPTIONAnnual, 20202 issues$10.00 PROJECT…

  • MANIFEST (zine): Divine Intervention

    MANIFEST (zine): Divine Intervention

    Part artist book, part chapbook, MANIFEST (zine) is the creation of Branford, CT writer / poet / artist Jen Payne. Consider it a hold-in-your-hands art installation featuring Jen’s writing and mixed-media collage work, along with photography, quotes, and bits and pieces of whatnot that rise to the surface as she meditates on a theme. Layered…

  • MANIFEST (zine) : A New Publication from 3 Chairs

    MANIFEST (zine) : A New Publication from 3 Chairs

    Part artist book, part chapbook, MANIFEST (zine) is the creation of writer / poet / artist Jen Payne. Consider it a hold-in-your-hands art installation featuring Jen’s writing and mixed-media collage work, along with photography, quotes, and bits and pieces of whatnot that rise to the surface as she meditates on a theme. Layered with colors,…