Write For Us!

Spill the Zines is looking to expand and feature some articles alongside its reviews and news posts, and we're looking for writers to join our team!  If you're a writer that's passionate about zine culture, we want to hear from you!


Some articles we'd be interested in include:

• Zine Fest reviews
• Zines as educational tools
• Zines as an alternative media
• Favourite zine series
• Tips on zine-making
• Layout ideas
• Zine do's and don'ts
• Zine anthology reviews
• Reviews of books about zines
• Zines & activism
• Zines & self-expression
• Friendships and the zine scene

We're pretty flexible with our writers; all we ask is that writers must be able to adhere to editorial deadlines.  You can submit as much or as little as you want!

What you get:

• Writing experience: a valuable addition to a portfolio or CV if you're interested in pursing a career in journalism/media. 
• An audience: Spill the Zines currently averages 1000 readers per month! If you decide to become a regular writer, a link to your personal blog will go in our sidebar, thus increasing traffic for your own projects.
  
• A chance to make a difference: We're the only zine blog dedicated to British zine culture and news, and we're getting bigger and better every month.

Interested? E-mail the editor Cath at spillthezinesuk@gmail.com with a bit about you (age, location, what zines you like to read, whether you write or contribute to zines) and a topic suggestion.


Can’t wait to hear from you!

Zine Review Policy

I’m always looking for new zines to review on this blog.  If you’d like your zine to be featured here, send an email to spillthezinesukATgmailDOTcom with the subject line “review request”, and the name of the author, the zine title, a short description, and the location of the author, like so:

Name of Author: Cath Elms

Zine Title: Here. In My Head. #4

Short Description: A feminist perzine featuring written pieces on friendship, jealousy, casual sexism, and things that make me happy.  40 pages, ¼ sized, £1.

City/county of Author: Swansea
Preferred gender pronoun (optional): she

I will then get back to you and let you know if you need to send me a copy, or if I already have a copy of your zine.  If I do not have a physical copy of your zine, you’ll need to send me one.  If you provide me with a SAE, I can return the zine when I'm done.  UK zines only please.

  

Zines we like at Spill the Zines:

Perzines

Feminist zines
Queer/sexuality zines

Political zines
Philosophical/contemplative zines
Environmental/activism zines

Cookery zines

Arts/crafts zines

Travel zines

Mental health/disability zines

Zines we dislike: Anything hateful, which includes (but is not limited to) homophobia, transphobia, racism, sexism, and ableism.

If your zine fits in to the like category, send it over!  If it doesn’t fit in to either category, you can still request a review.  I might not be into other types of zine (e.g. lit zines) but I’ll try to review them as fairly as possible.  Please bear in mind that my reviews are sometimes critical.

Any questions, feel free to email - spillthezinesukATgmailDOTcom.  :)

Send us your news!

Have something you want us to include in our fortnightly zine news round-up?  Awesome! Just send us an email to spillthezinesuk @ gmail.com and we'll pop it in.

Things we like hearing about include:

• New issue announcements 
• Distro updates/new distros
• Calls for submissions 
• Zine reviews
• Interesting articles about zines
• Zines featured in mainstream media
• Zine events

We'd also like to receive news from you about other people's projects (i.e. "I heard about this upcoming zine event and thought you'd like to mention it on STZ...")!

This blog is now run by only one person, and there's only so much of the internet I can trawl through on a Sunday afternoon, so the more you can send me, the better my posts will be!

Please note, we only feature news about British zines - not due to any sort of silly patriotism, but simply as a way to give the blog a specific focus/thread!  The zine world is a large place, so we can only focus on a little part of it. :)

Let's Trade Links!

Do you write a zine blog or run a zine-related website?  Run a British distro?  Are you a British zinester with a zine-related blog or website?


Great! Let's trade links.

Email us at spillthezinesukATgmail.com with the subject title "Link Exchange" and your website in the main body of the email and we'll put your link in our nav bar on the right. In exchange, you'll put a link to Spill the Zines on your blog/website.