Zine Machine is an online lit mag and a literal zine vending machine for zines. Our zines are created by real (paid!) human artists and lovingly hand folded by the perfectionists at Zine Machine. You can always read ZM zines for free at zinemachine.com. For the full experience, catch us irl at our favorite small businesses and indie bookstores! More about Zine Machine.
Zine Machine is accepting submissions for our next season—send us your mini-zines!
Zines submitted in this category will be considered for online publication and print distribution via our vending machines, which are operated by our retail parters. Zine artists whose work is accepted receive a $20 honorarium and retain all rights to their work.
Submission Checklist:
- Your submission is a mini-zine (you may submit up to 2). For more on mini-zine formatting, look here.
- The submission is your original work.
- Any remixed or sampled work by another person qualifies as fair use. For more information about fair use, see the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Poetry.
- Your submission is PDF, JPG, or PNG with an image resolution of at least 300 dpi, preferably higher.
Zine Machine wants to put your vintage zines back in circulation!
Send us your niche zines, your fanzines, your punk zines, your perzines, your queer zines, your kitsch zines, your anarchist zines, your activist zines, your angsty zines, your Y2K zines...
Zines accepted for this category will be made available in our vending machines, which are operated by our retail parters. Artists whose work is accepted receive a $20 honorarium and retain all rights to their work.
So you have enough time to look through all the boxes in your basement, hall closet, or parents' garage, this submissions category is open year round.
Submission Checklist:
- Your zine was made anytime before 2006.
- Your submission is a mini-zine.* For more on mini-zine formatting, look here.
- You hold the rights to the zine.**
- Any remixed or sampled work by another person qualifies as fair use. For more information about fair use, see the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Poetry.
- Your submission is PDF, JPG, or PNG with an image resolution of at least 300 dpi, preferably higher.
*In some situations, we may be able to work with you to adapt a zine from a larger format into a mini-zine format. If this is something you're interested in, please indicate it on the submission form.
**How do I know if I hold the rights to a zine?
- You made the zine, OR
- You're an heir or manage the estate of the person who made the zine, OR
- You have written permission from the person who made the zine to submit it for publication and distribution.