edinburghzinelibrary

That’s us done for today folks!

We are back again tomorrow at 10 ✌️

Looking to find out more about culture across the UK? You can see what’s on in our & take it home with the accompanying pay what you can zine

We have merch! Support your local by buying one of our totes, stickers & you can even make your own badge

Open until 6

We’ve even brought the collection. Ideal for a moment of peace & calm 😌

EDINBURGH ZINE FEST {Sat 14 & Sun 15 May } posters slowly popping up around the city 🖼 With one week to go it is probably about time tbh

🏡 If you are / work in / are a regular botherer of a bricks and mortar establishment in Edinburgh and you would like to adorn your walls with our sexy zine fest poster send us a wee DM and Emily will drop one off (/send her partner to) on Sunday or Monday 😘

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JESSICA CRISP | Sunday @ Edinburgh Zine Fest


💬I have often included quotes from writers or lyrics within my prints, and during the past year I have finally started to incorporate some of my own writing, in the form of printed zines, produced in unlimited editions, sold at accessible prices and distributed widely. I was beginning to feel disconnected as a Printmaker, selling my work at high prices through galleries, whose spaces could be intimidating and inaccessible to many.
Through this form I have felt able to present my writing whilst exploring the the sequential rhythms of the way we look, the conceptual leaps we make between words and image, and the use of juxtaposition to construct and reconfigure meaning.
I have always written small poems and pieces of prose, in response to things I’ve struggled with. The following series of zines, were written as love letters to three animals in my life, exploring the ambiguity I feel with our relationships with animals. Animals made expendable in the maintenance of modern civilised society, for our comfort, sport and food.

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EMPORIUM OF MADNESS | Saturday @ Edinburgh Zine Fest


💬My name is Becca Connor and I make art inspired by cool ladies from history, mythology, and media. I make illustration zines in a style that varies between that of a vintage fairytale book and 1980s cartoon design, as well as comic and history zines about the q***r experience.

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EMILY CHAPPELL | Saturday & Sunday @ Edinburgh Zine Fest


💬Emily Chappell is a freelance illustrator, artist and silkscreen printer based in Glasgow, Scotland.
Emily has a strong interest in our cultural relationship with food, as well as the growing of it - especially allotments and self sufficiency.
She loves zines as a medium to deep dive into any subject matter outside of her everyday illustration practice.

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CHLOE HEFFERNAN | Sunday @ Edinburgh Zine Fest

💬Chloe's work focus on the everyday details of moments, and how memory focuses on the gentlest and smallest of senses in recalling a moment in time. Gently illustrating memories and thoughts, Heffernan explores minutiae of the everyday and finds tranquillity and creativity in even the saddest of memories.

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THE HEN COLLECTIVE | Saturday & Sunday @ Edinburgh Zine Fest


💬The Hen Collective is a women led art collective based in Edinburgh, providing a free gallery space for emerging and low-income women and non-binary artists in the local area. A collective for all hens, femmes and thems.

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SMEX | Sunday @ Edinburgh Zine Fest


💬Alex Weir (aka Smex) is an artist and illustrator based in Glasgow. Smex is particularly inspired by the mundane and the everyday (especially anything related to food) and has been making humorous zines for the past six years about everything from Ronald McDonald and the Michelin Man to his own part-time jobs.

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SKEAR ZINES | Saturday @ Edinburgh Zine Fest

💬Skear Zines aims to resist homogenisation, and celebrate querenesse. It wants to give space to those voices that might not fit into traditional publishing models, voices that have been sidelined or as yet unheard, voices that have small (yet big) things to say, voices that will sing in unconventional forms.

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