Zine News Round-Up: 15/09/13

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1.            New Releases

2.            Upcoming Events

3.            Submission Calls

4.            Distro News

5.            A.O.B.

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1. New Releases

• ‘Zines in Space’, a comic zine about aliens finding a photocopier, is out now! Buy your copy at http://www.etsy.com/shop/sammyborras.
• Issue 1 of Animated Times zine is out now, and features a number of artists’ reinterpretations of their favourite childhood cartoon characters.  Take a look at http://www.animatedreview.bigcartel.com/
• Girls Get Busy #19 is out now! You can read it for free online at http://issuu.com/ggbzine/docs/ggb_19_pdf.

2. Upcoming Events

• Bristol Comic and Zine Fair: 05 October at The Station, Bristol, 12pm. http://bristolcomicandzinefair.wordpress.com/
• Nottingham Zine Fair: 12 October at Spanky Van Dykes, Nottingham. https://www.facebook.com/events/393606757425696/?fref=ts
• Autumn Zine Fest: 20 October at The Fighting Cocks, Kingston, London. https://www.facebook.com/londonzinefest?fref=ts
• Print Matters: A Fanzine and Self-Publishing Workshop: 25 October at Studio 74, London, 10am.  https://www.facebook.com/events/416975098421100/
• London Queer Zine Fest: 01 December, details TBC! https://www.facebook.com/events/160624710775600/?ref=ts&fref=ts
• SW Zines Presents A Christmas Zine Social: 07 December at Housmans Radical Book Shop, Kings Cross, 7pm.  Deets: http://swzinecollective.weebly.com/events.html

3. Submission Calls

• Poor Lass, a zine about working-class women, is looking for submissions for its third issue!  The theme is ‘family’. Details here: https://www.facebook.com/PoorLassZine
• ‘Stories from Space Camp’ is an alternative sci fi and fantasy quarterly looking for submissions for their first issue.  Submissions from people who feel alienated from mainstream sci fi & fantasy media are particularly welcome. Check out the Facebook page for more info: https://www.facebook.com/StoriesFromSpaceCamp.
• Litzine ‘Hand Job’ is looking for written work to publish in its second issue.   For more details, or to get hold of issue 1 of free, email handjobzine @ gmail.com.
• A new zine dealing with death & loss is looking for submissions. We'd like to put a workbook-type zine together, with strategies for & articles on grieving and dealing with death. Get in touch at ipsumATriseupDOTnet.
• DUPE is calling for submissions for its third publication: “THE DARK ISSUE" due for release in Winter 2013.We are looking for original and creative material in the form of photography, illustration, collage, writing, poetry, reviews, interviews etc. The work must respond to the theme but it can be interpreted as literally or abstractly as you like.  More details at http://wearedupe.tumblr.com/post/55868960304/call-for-submissions-issue-3-the-dark-issue

4. Distro News

• New zines up at feminist/queer distro www.vampiresushi.co.uk!
• New zines and other bits at http://marchingstars.co.uk/!

5.A.O.B.

• Save Our Royal Mail is a new campaign that has popped up, campaigning against the proposed plans to sell off the Royal Mail.  Check out their website for lots of detailed information on why the Royal Mail should stay as it is, and how to get involved with the campaign: http://saveourroyalmail.org/