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Here's my guide to Zine events in May 26! 🗓 If you'd like me to include your festival or I've missed your event, please leave a comment
 2nd May
Rainbow Reads – queer zine fair pop-up @melnychuk.art (@crossandcrows , 12–6pm, Vancouver, Canada) 3rd May
Newcastle Zine Fest @nclzinefest (Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle, UK) 2nd-3rd May PageMasters Spring Zine Fair @pagemasters.co (London, UK) 5th May
Zine launch + folk horror talk @generalwitch1 (@thekingsarmsdorchester , UK) 7th May
Bring Your Baby Zine Club @lambeth_libraries (2pm, Brixton Library, London, UK) 8th May
Zine Workshop: In Celebration of Care @gabrieladorantes_ (6–8pm, AQUARIUM Bregenz Concept Store, Austria) 10th May
Goblin Mini Market @thatgoblinmarket (Piehouse Co-op, Deptford, London, UK) 15th–17th May
A Bigger Book Fair @peckham24photo (Peckham, London, UK) 23rd May Warsaw Zine Club @godai_wn (7pm, Paradox Cafe, Warsaw, Poland – drop in, no registration needed) 24th May
Zine Making Workshop @smeer.mag (The Drummer, Glebe, Sydney, Australia) Queering the Archive: Who Gets To Tell Our Stories? - @sussexunimah @sussexuni (Sussex, UK) Festival of Ideas at @brightonfestival . With @erinjamess__ us @aghhzine @drsnax @sussexlibrary (Brighton, UK) 29th–31st May
Speak Volumes Festival 2026 @speakvolumesfestival (The Arches, Worcester, UK – free zine workshops & stalls) 30th May
Zine d’Arc: Geeky Feminist Zine Fest @zineofarc (11am–5pm, Acworth, Georgia, USA)
London Football Book Market @stanchionbooks (with zines) @lambeth_libraries (London, UK) 30th–31st May
Duplicate Publishing Fair @duplicatepublishingfair (Digbeth, Birmingham, UK) #nicezines #zine #zines #zinefair

Got a zine you want seen? There are two ways to send it over, you can email me or post physical copies. If you’re emailing:
Please don’t send PDFs, I don’t post them (and never have). I love sharing photos of physical zines instead, so have a look at the kind of posts I already share and use those as a guide.
Make sure to include your Instagram username so I can tag you.
And if you can, add a short blurb about your zine, I love including a bit of context when I post ✨ My email is nicezines @ gmail.com #nicezines #zine #zines #art #design

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Distinguished Donkeys 2 by @karens_glimmers I loved the first zine and I love the second even more!! ❤️ #zine #nicezines #tinyzine #minizine #zinester

Running a zine event in June? Let me know and I’ll add you to the listings. 

Also, please don’t DM me your events, just leave a comment here and I’ll add them in. My inbox is a bit chaotic at times!

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Delivery Shifts by @jim_spendlove This comic looks so cool. I think it would make a great series! About this.. "Shifts is a fictional comic loosely based on my time as a pizza delivery driver in 2010-2011. The story and characters are made up, but I took a lot of inspiration from shifts I'd worked, people I'd met, and the town I grew up in." #nicezines #zines #comiczine #pizzadelivery #zinemaking

Overgrown Ink by @overgrown_inker This zine is so beautifully illustrated, I love it. About this zine "Overgrown Ink is a hand-illustrated zine of short fiction and original pencil drawings exploring women altered by what they cultivate, whether that's love, shame, belief, beauty, or insecurity, and what grows back. Tattoos that bloom into living plants. A beast who made herself small for love. A woman trading memories for amnesia. Across eight stories, botanical art and magical realism intertwine to examine transformation, loss, and the stubborn things that take root when you're not looking." #nicezines #zines #illustratedzine #magicalrealism #zinemaking

Check out these new zines by @adelsouto I love how zines can show you things you might not know about. I had no idea that trucker chapels were a thing! About these "Both In the Driver's Seat and Trucker Chapels are full-color, glossy, 5.5" x 8.5" (14 x 21 cm) photography zines, containing around 40 pics. In the Driver's Seat showcases my "dashboard photographs", collected to represent the loneliness of life on the road, while Trucker Chapels collect photos of the interesting slice of trucker life." #nicezines #zines #truckerchapels #zinemaking #documentaryzine

Looking for contributors to your zine? Post your ad below! Don’t forget to include as much info as possible. Like if it’s specific themes, countries, the deadline date or anything else. #nicezines #zine #zines #lookingforcontributors #zinetsers

MANIFEST (zine): Pandemic Purchases By @3chairsbooks I love this zine! The pandemic was such a wild time, we really do need more zines that collect everyone’s different experiences. About this zine “Having heard the phrase “pandemic purchase” three separate times recently, I was inspired to create an issue of MANIFEST (zine) about just that — those random, weird, or wild items we purchased during the pandemic, remember? I hope you enjoy this eclectic assortment of Pandemic Purchases as shared by some of our regular readers and subscribers in issue #18. Guest contributors include Lara Alves, Ken Bausert, Anne Coffey, Ted Ficklen, Allison Maltese, Silvery Nyx, Mary O’Connor, Sally Rieger, and Nina Zina.” #zine #zines #zinester #nicezines

Boy Bums by @karens_glimmers Love a tiny cheeky zine 😎😉 #zine #minizine #nicezines #zines #zinester

Karen @karens_glimmers is answering all of the important questions with this zine… How much alcohol would a Smurf have to drink in order to turn green? #zine #zines #nicezines #essayzine #zinester