Over the past few years I have been getting into making zines. Mostly 8-page mini zines. Although, I have started a couple of full-length ones (not finished though), and have made a few quarter size ones as well.It's so wild because for the longest time I didn't think I was creative enought to make zines. What will I talk about? What will they look like? What is the point? Still, I saw a friend make one and I figured, why not just TRY.
So I tried. And I made a zine about failure and it came out okay and I felt great about that. The rest is history. I know many who are more skilled zines than I am but I am also aware that it's not a competition. They can be great at it. And I can okay/good/great at it. There are no grades here!
I will try to share as many of my zines here as I can, I hope you will enjoy them!
When Life Needs A Splash of Color
This zine is a super mini zine. I used watercolor paper and cut it down to size. It's smaller than a typical 8-page mini. But it's so compact and cute. And I got to send friends a little paint pallette via snail mail so they could paint it. What fun project. I hope to make more watercolor zines in the future.
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Rejection Blackout Poems Zine
This is a little zine I made using blackout poems created from rejection letters I received. Submitting your work for publication means rejection is inevitable. It can feel discouraging to hear no, after no, after no. But making blackout poems helps. It's even more fun when you make the rejection letter meaner than what they said because you can always think to yourself, "actually, that wasn't so bad, it really could have been worse!" lol
Thanks for Trying
This is one that I made earlier in 2026, I have bad memory so I can't remember WHY I made it. I think it was after a conversation with a friend and I said to them "thanks for trying" and it just stuck with me. Anyway, hope you enjoy:
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