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ONE MAN’S TRASHA thoroughly postmodern monster finds kinship in mutability and
endurance. A restaurant critic meets his match in a tale of telepathic
tongues. A put-upon middle-manager dreams of bloody revenge against the
puerile Big Babies. A courier chases an impossible connection across a
city that doesn’t exist. Seeking solace in queer lives and landscapes,
these fables of loneliness, love and liminality delight in disgust,
discover joy in daily junk, and create wild unexpected treasures from
the most unusual of leftovers. |
FIERCE SALVAGEA follow-up to We Were Always Here, this collection of stories, poems and memoir provides a snapshot of Scotland’s queer community and LGBTI+ writing scene. A handpicked crew of dykes board the Caledonian Sleeper bound for Glasgow. A couple wrestle with gender roles when their flat inventory includes a brand new baby. A young man's world expands with possibility in Barcelona, while lust mingles with faith and celebrity in verse. Curious and provocative, sometimes domestic, sometimes otherworldly, it captures the variety of experiences that bind our community together. |
WE WERE ALWAYS HEREFrom drag queens and discos, to black holes and monsters, these stories and poems wrestle with love and loneliness and the fight to be seen. By turns serious and fantastical, hilarious and confrontational, We Were Always Here addresses the fears, mysteries, wonders and variety of experience that binds our community together. We Were Always Here is a snapshot of current Scottish LGBTI+ writing and a showcase of queer talent. |
AN HONOURABLE PLACEA collaborative two-player storytelling game, An Honourable Place invites you to chronicle how humanity’s dregs survive the end of the world, and how their actions affect the far, far future. Over the course of ten episodes, players create and narrate the histories of The Commune, a group of apocalypse survivors, and The Cult, a tribe of mystics on a pilgrimage. Separated from each other by 5,000 years, but inextricably linked by cause and effect, players build an archive of historical symbology, and alter the course of each other's fates. Across the vast chasm of history, even the slightest decisions can grow into essential blessings, or tragic curses. This is a story of communication, interpretation, co-operation, and how when the world falls apart, people pull together. Purchase the PDF over on itch.io, or get in touch using the form at the bottom of the page to order a limited run zine. |
MINOR MISHAPSA zine of collected writings that aren’t entirely fit for public consumption, but also not quite so past their use-by-date that they had to be thrown away. Spans a 9 year period of experiments, false-starts and oddities. Includes some infrequent forays into poetry, a longform piece that lands somewhere between autofiction and Irish mythology, and some of the best cuts from a long-defunct blog, The Dolby Apposition, which used songs chosen at random by an iPod Shuffle as the starting point for microfictions. |
THE QUEEN’S HEADOriginally intended as a one-off zine between Glasgow friends, the first issue of The Queen's Head was edited and compiled at a cabin on the east coast of Scotland, printed on borrowed sugarpaper and bound by string and beads. It soon, however, grew legs, arms, many other unidentifiable appendages, and by its fourth issue was home to some wonderful, weird and really rather intense writing and illustration from all over the world. An unpredictable publishing schedule, non-existent budget and constantly evolving purpose were by turns charming and infuriating, but one thing held true across all eight issues: a delight in championing new writers with a knack for brilliance. A labour of love in the truest sense of the phrase, it was an honour to select and showcase all the work that made it into the zine, and I thank all our featured writers, illustrators and multitudinous supporters for getting involved. Our eighth and final issue was online only, and is downloadable as a PDF below. Issues 1 - 7, meanwhile, are still available to purchase in print while stocks last. Just drop me a line using the contact form at the bottom of the page, stating which issues you'd like. Print issues are all £4, postage and packaging included (UK only - for further afield, get in touch and I'll see what I can do!) |
Issue 8Grave misuse of industrial-grade rubber; media-savvy murder ballads;
post-decomposition literary deconstruction; birds and bellies; denial,
drugs, Dune and death; the secret lives of furniture; old world, fresh
eyes, new. |
Issue 7Ballardian viscera; paranoid fatherhood; interdimensional gaming and
grief; hallucinogenic escapes; doomed voyages; a conference of AI;
radiation sickness; digital labyrinths. All illustrations by Ross McAuley |
Issue 6A transaction of souls; interior designs; mouths like watering holes; amber trinkets; hirsute hominids; theological powerpoints; cataclysm, flippantly. Lara C Cory - Bottle Brown |
Issue 5Pensioners, fighting dirty; antennae; an obsession with heartache; frozen cities; a village without children, a forest with a secret; forgotten man-made monsters; zero open, zero closed; queer representation in underground comics; a most beautiful slaughter; several selves; on chewing. The Walk Home - Andrew Blair |
Issue 4Courting rituals; lonely giraffes; atomic grace; papier-mâché people;
a sun that never sets; a big bird in a small cage; mythical lumberjacks;
shiny red clicked-heel shoes. |
Issue 3Feminism, craft and rebellious grandmothers; fond remembrances;
minotaur (singular), breaking and entering; wrestlers and
bluesmen. Also ships with a special Triptych Chapbook - three mini-zines showcasing material from Stephen O'Toole, R. A. Davis, Elaine Gallagher and Tawny Kerr |
Issue 2Welsh Odlaws; fingers and sausages; auditory epiphanies; flying marine biology; monkeys and masks. R. A. Davis - When Was Wally? Also ships with two illustrated postcards by Tawny Kerr |
Issue 1The lyrical narratives of breakups; shaving trees and sad cyborgs;
Jose Saramago's socialist agenda; possession, skin and a tug-of-war
mixtape. |
