News from 3 Chairs

  • 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 Available! Manifest (zine): Heroically Found
    Now Available! Manifest (zine): Heroically Found

    Issue #9, Heroically Found Taking its theme from the William Butler Yeats poem “A Crazed Girl,” HEROICALLY FOUND considers how we improvise as we go along “no matter what disaster occurred,” finding balance, like the crazed girl, in “her music, her poetry, dancing upon the shore.” Quoting from a variety of spiritual and creative sources,…

  • THE EXCHANGE: A Statewide Connecticut Artist Treasure Hunt
    THE EXCHANGE: A Statewide Connecticut Artist Treasure Hunt

    Three Chairs Publishing is psyched to be part of THE EXCHANGE, a statewide artist treasure hunt happening in Connecticut from now until November 1! CLICK HERE for an interactive map, GPS coordinates, and video clues from all of the artists! SomethingProjects is launching its first project, a statewide Connecticut Artist Treasure Hunt called THE EXCHANGE,…

  • 3 Chairs at Quimby’s in Chicago!
    3 Chairs at Quimby’s in Chicago!

    3 Chairs at Quimby’s in Chicago! When I come back in my next life I want to be an artist AND I want to work at Quimby’s in Chicago. Quimby’s is an independently owned bookstore that sells independently-published and small press books, comics, zines and ephemera. They favor the unusual, the aberrant, the saucy and…

  • 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…

  • Zines I’ve read in 2022 (May)

    Originally posted on Echo Zines: Welcome to my monthly zine recommendations aka the list of zines I read in the past month! This time I found reading pleasure in publications about gardening, Star Trek, mental health, witchery, the pandemic, and more… Let’s start with Laura-Marie’s zines. She’s such a prolific writer, both for her zines…

  • 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…

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