A personal account of a seventeen year old's abusive relationship which spanned 13 months.

several pages 16.5 cm x 9 cm

Well I don't know about you kids but for me it's midsemester, which means midsemester essays, which means looking for any excuse to procrastinate. I've been thinking about this particular project for a while as it's actually the kind of zine that I want to read other people's versions of. Basically it's a short list of words, terms and phrases that my closest friends and I use from day to day and where they come from. Most of them are appropriated from popular culture - some of which you'll recognise, some of which you might not.

15 cm x 10 cm, 16 pages

PO Box 392 Newtown NSW 2042

tinypaperhearts.wordpress.com

Cool little comic about a girl who had mystery headaches when she was small. The story is told through cute line drawings that follow her journey to recovery. Pictures include: Throwing up from her bed; Unable to catch a ball; She and her mother facing a sea of (scary) grinning doctors offering conflicting diagnoses; Her being showered in various pills and bottles; Finally being told the real diagnosis by a gleeful-looking doctor. Essential pocket reading.

32 pages, 10.5 cm x 7 cm

alexeclark.blogspot.com lexxielizzie@hotmail.com

Half of this zine was written whilst bored at work and half of it was written in the several hours that I was locked out of my house on a thursday night. As infuriated as I was then, in retrospect it was a better use of y time than sitting on my bed, eating curly wurlys and watching the final season of Oz.

This is an autobiographical 'mixtape; of things that happened in 2008 and before. Includes mini stories on houses I've lived with and people I've lived with, identity crises and other such non sequiturs.

30 pages, 21 cm x 15 cm

PO Box 392 Newtown NSW 2042

www.tinypaperhearts.com

Although this zine is partly about the vertigo and the nervousness and the nausea, it's also about the transcendence and the joy and that amazing feeling when you think that things cannot get any better, except they do.

This is another personal zine inspired by my decision to quit the call centre that I've previously referenced in the Epitaph for my Heart series. Includes events that propelled this life changing (for the better) decision, my take on the etiquette of resigning from crappy jobs, the aftermath of quitting and the politics of office 'theft'.

28 pages, 21 cm x 15 cm

PO Box 392 Newtown NSW 2042

tinypaperhearts.wordpress.com

Butch was regularly taken out of his cage. he spent more time out of it than in it when I was around. whenever the tv was on in the lounge, he would be up on the ledge inside that ran along the top of the window, running up and down, chattering excitedly...

15 cm x 10 cm, 8 pages of rizzo pink and green wonderland, in an edition of 65.

butchthebudgie@gmail.com

Featuring dodgy binding and a 6,500 word interview with Sydney's Seymour Butz, Coughing up Legomen is the first issue in 5 years for Chris. A mix of kinds of writing, cathartic and happy, CUL has screen printed covers and is offset printed in blue and black ink. CUL started as an angry punk queer teenage angst. Now it is a more reflective bunch of writings about love life, tribal thinking, getting your house raided by the cops, the free/squat party scene in Sydney and sharehousing. Hundreds showed up to the launch party and everyone got wasted. I sold 12 zines to 420 people. The afterparty was good tho. This zine was collated by 6 people. With love and beer. This is #20. #19 doesn't exist but I have done 5 years of life since #18, so fair's fair, huh?

28 pages, 29.5 cm x 21 cm

chrisunderload@yahoo.com PO Box 123 Newtown NSW 2042

Lots of juicy, juicy stuff in this issue including -an interview with Iain McIntyre about squatting and activist history - occupations in the Greek uprisings - SHAC vs Melbourne Uni fight! - Victoria St squats of '73 - sundry personal reflections - young adult literature - pages printed in the correct order (fingers crossed) and more.

21 cm x 15 cm, 60 pages

comradecrowbar@yahoo.com.au

February 2009

This was the first zine in a very long time. Over a year in the making (or three years, if you count from when it was first spoken about), then rapidly compiled in the 24 hours leading up to the TINA zine fair in October 2008 in Newcastle, this zine is all about mix-tapes. Not CDRs, nor MP3 playlists, but TAPES - that wonderful dying medium whose nobility is also, it seems, fading away. Managed to get in the zine top 10 in Maximum Rock n roll #313, despite the fact that the reviewer hated the creator's music taste.

24 pages, 21 cm x 15 cm

spurzine@gmail.com

PO Box 41 Flinders Lane VIC 8009

A7 weekly anti-review music perzine, issues 1-5 (9 March - 4 April 2009)

In short, it's an anti-review somewhat music-based perzine, whereby each issue is written on a Monday whilst listening to a different album. The idea is that the issues are more about the rambling thoughts finding their way through the author's head whilst listening to the music, rather than an abstract analysis of the piece of music itself. Some issues are obviously influenced by the tunes, and others not so much. Music features quite strongly in these first issues, more often than not hailing from the halls of extreme metal, further reinforcing the common misconception that the author only listens to metal.

1 A4 sheet, folded.  spurzine@gmail.com PO Box 41 Flinders Lane VIC 8009

A7 weekly anti-review music perzine issues 11-15 (18 May - 15 June 2009)

More bundles of A7 somewhat-music-inspired annecdotes, often sticking to the one theme for the whole 6 pages, would ya believe. Leaning closer to the morose side of things, these issues dealt with space-heater addiction, wanting to run away, contemplating the world getting quieter, contemplating not wanting to contemplate anything, and annuling a personal/professional relationship.

1 A4 sheet, folded.

spurzine@gmail.com

PO Box 41 Flinders Lane VIC 8009

A7 weekly anti-review music perzine, issues 16-20 (22 June - 20 July 2009)

Following on with the introspective and philosophical theme taken on board in previous issues, this bunch contemplate such deep concepts as the joys of banality, the scourge of marriage, fluid attitudes towards metaphysics, trying to track down old teachers, and contemplating partial deafness.

1 A4 sheet, folded.

spurzine@gmail.com

PO Box 41 Flinders Lane VIC 8009

A7 weekly anti-review music perzine, issues 21-25 (27 July - 24 August 2009)

Things get a bit painful in this stage of the development of d&hm, with accidental physical scarring and partially intentional mental scarring coming up, along with more expected pangs of loneliness. Errors in communication and issues with class also get a word in, as do some bursts of silliness that never really explain themselves.

1 A4 sheet, folded.

spurzine@gmail.com

PO Box 41 Flinders Lane VIC 8009

A7 weekly anti-review music perzine, issues 26-30 (31 August - 28 September 2009)

Music features strongly here, starting with the first review-ish (as opposed to anti-review) issue, where On Wednesday and Spurzine churned out a Sticky exclusive split issue (and, due to the exclusive nature there-of, only the d&hm side of it is available in this bundle). Then more broad talk on making music, drugs and music, as well as some talk on static electricity and having a good nights rest.

1 A4 sheet, folded. spurzine@gmail.com PO Box 41 Flinders Lane VIC 8009

A7 weekly anti-review music perzine, issues 31-35 (5 October - 2 November, 2009)

Starting with the post-TINA issue, full of uncertainty over late-night
speed-zineing, this bundle covers a number of discomforting thoughts
and moments. Like mixing terminal illnesses with performance art,
wearing Olympic medals long after they were won, deciding not to bite
your own tongue around bigots, and trying to find the right thing to
say at your Father's birthday party.

1 A4 sheet, folded.

spurzine@gmail.com

PO Box 41 Flinders Lane VIC 8009

A7 weekly anti-review music perzine, issues 36 - 40 (9 November - 7 December 2009)

Manic revelry at the end of the tertiary education year, reactions to being hit on in an unofficial public sex space, interpreting strangely innocent gifts, contemplating a bitingly bad review of one of the author's zines, and working through consumerist guilt all filter into these five issues. Stress and calm, waxing and waning. 1 A4 sheet, folded. 

A7 weekly anti-review music perzine, issues 6-10 (6 April - 11 May 2009)

[OK, so it doesn't look like 5 zines in the pic but believe us there's one hidden underneath. We don't sell you short- Mail Order Dept]

The narratives became less erratic over this period, with more care taken to trim the wiry hedges growing alongside it's consciousness stream, keeping the water flowing in a way that, although not
peaceful, at least make a bit more sense, with less backwards waterfalls and stretched metaphors. Topics covered included avoiding zine-burnout, audio equipment nerd-dom, starting a shitcore band, contemplating zines as a priveleged passtime, and frustrations with psychotherapy.

1 A4 sheet, folded.

spurzine@gmail.com

PO Box 41 Flinders Lane VIC 8009

It's about anxiety and chronic pain. It was typed/written between December 2009 and July 2009 on a Brother Deluxe 762TR.

42 pages, 15 cm x 10 cm

This issue as compiled over a series of late nights hunched over the laptop, trying to do something constructive with those late hours. In between reading about the economy and fretting over the inevitable engineered catastrophic collapse or watching documentries about the 9/11 inside job and sweating over the evidence, I wrote about the following records. This has been an excercise in paranoia and heightened awareness, the coyote in the desert.

16 pages, 30 cm x 21 cm PO Box 239 North Carlton VIC 3054

distorttheworld@gmail.com http://www.culthardcore.org/

Personal zine detailing the ins and outs of, and justification of, maintaining an expensive Blythe doll collection.

32 pages, 15 cm x 10.5 cm Includes mini zine written after 'falling out of the hobby' and comes in super cute red envelope

PO Box 41 Flinders Lane VIC 8009

runawaykite@gmail.com 

Spiffy, shaggy, jumble-headed, shiney-eyed, tall-tale-telling and true

katebree@gmail.com

16 pages, 10.5 cm x 8 cm

A collection of the first three issues of Epitaph for my Heart. It is not a 'best of', mainly because such an endeavour would be pretty pointless in such a short zine. Someone once told me they liked Epitaph because it was snack-size and although I do not dare to dream that this anthology could replace such key meals as brunch or dinner, I hope that you consider this mid-afternoon macaroni and cheese-sized zine as my gift to you.

48 pages, 21 cm x 15 cm

PO Box 392 Newtown NSW 2042

tinypaperhearts.wordpress.com

This issue attempts to revive the discussion of talking vs. writing, gives advice on how to be a hit single, describes the accidental blank and how to remedy it and more.

24 pages, 21 cm x 15 cm

PO Box 392 Newtown NSW 2042

tinypaperhearts.wordpress.com

Number Five includes the answer(s) to inane question #3 "Where have you been all my life:, a short guide on how to manage workplace lechery, hints on secret keeping, comparisons between HBO's Oz and real life based on extensive, painstaking research and more.

28 pages, 21 cm x 15 cm

PO Box 392 Newtown NSW 2042

tinypaperhearts.wordpress.com

This issue was several months in the making and is mainly the product of several embarrassing incidents I was involved with earlier this yearthat I thought could have some possible pedagogical function. That is to say, once again you might be able to learn from my social blunders. So #6 includes a discussion on the likely / unlikely social ramifications of casual profanity, the ethics and logistics of Facebook stalking, a little guide on how (or why) not to be intimidated by other people and a special A3 centrefold which is my own personal 'Not That Social' flowchart designed to help you predict the trajectory of your garden-variety night on the town.

21 cm x 15 cm, 24 pages

PO Box 392 Newtown NSW 2042

tinypaperhearts.wordpress.com

This issue was written in anticipation of my then boy-thing moving overseas. It's a bit, a lot of the angsty side but I had to get it all / him out of my system.

“You smell like cigarettes, you smell like sleeplessness, is she a smoker, is she a bad influence, is she really the one you want. He is too nice for you, he is too young, and you will damage him, you will."

15 cm x 10.5 cm, 16 pages 

ivanaforpresident@hotmail.com ivanawashere.wordpress.com

Writing about: trying to write; reality or lack thereof; boy(s); driving down the coast; identity through nationality; the usual. Short pieces of writing, mostly. Photos. Cut and paste. Made with love and angst.

24 pages 15 cm x 10.5 cm

ivanaforpresident@hotmail.com

ivanawashere.wordpress.com

Issue 14 - Alphabetic Apparel

Fergus is made of personal thoughts, tales and pictures on various topics, here in varying degrees of order, and covered in fabric.

10.5 cm x 7.5 cm, 22 pages

PO Box 1497 East Vic Park, WA 6981

Issue 17 - An Alphabet of Stickers
 
Fergus is made of personal thoughts, tales and pictures on a particular topic, organised alphabetically and covered in fabric.

April 2009

10.5 cm x 7.5 cm, 22 pages

PO Box 1497 East Vic Park, WA 6981

Issue 19 - An Alphabet of Adventure (Burning Man Festival, USA 2009)
 
Fergus is made of personal thoughts, tales and pictures on a particular topic, organised alphabetically and covered in fabric.
 
October 2009

10.5 cm x 7.5 cm, 22 pages

PO Box 1497 East Vic Park, WA 6981

Issues 8,9 and 10 spanning Nov 2000 to Nov 2001

Fergus is made of personal thoughts, tales and pictures on various topics, here in varying degrees of order, and covered in fabric.

Nov 2009 reissue for the fans

10.5 cm x 7.5 cm, lotsa pages

PO Box 1497 East Vic Park, 6981

A split zine about working in a supermarket by employees of rival supermarkets. Pretty depressing, really.

A queer personal zine, this documents a Melbourne girl's coming out and the process of identifying and dealing with internalised homophobia. It begins at the age of 11 with her first crush and finishes as she deals with finally coming out to herself in her 20’s. It depicts the difficulties with both hope and self-deprecation. Also included is a mini zine.

28 pages, 21 cm x 7.5 cm. Includes 8 page mini-zine.

Original hate mail collected from family, friends and enemies. Includes personal letters, graffiti, emails, letters to the editor and creative writing by a 6 year old to his parents.

28 pages. 21 cm x 15 cm.

Original hate mail: the sequel, due to popular demand.

32 pages, 21 cm x 15 cm

An incredibly intimate and honest zine, one of the best zines ever, no more description, just buy it.

16 pages, 21 cm x 15 cm

3.9.08 1.33am

I really was in love. again. It felt perfect. It was. and she was perfect...

30 pages, 16 cm x 11 cm

P.O. Box 85 Aireys Inlet VIC 3121

A grab-bag of short stories, illustrations, a comic strip, a collage, some reviews, a few articles, collected true stories, instructions to make origami shot glasses and a nifty little recipe for cupcakes...all devoted to the theme of parties. Something to flick through while you're on the bus, falling asleep with the lights on, or bored senseless at someone else's party.

April 2008

21 cm x 15 cm, 48 pages.

yesterdaysclothes@gmail.com

Do you too? So I made a little zine out of all the different types of sandwich fillings I enjoy!

I am excited, so super excited! This zine is not as thick as my previous zine but it's still fun and filled with happy sandwiches!

26 pages, 21 cm x 15 cm

dawntanwenyi@gmail.com

http://hand-made-love.blogspot.com

Today is July 25 2009 and I'm writing this zine to take part in a 24 hour zine making event. Typically, when I sit down to make a zine all planets must be aligned. I need blank paper. Will I make it to the copy place before it closes? Why didn't I put the lid on the gluestick after I last used it? 

July is international zine month and today is my first free Saturday in weeks. Surely this is a sign that today I can answer the 24 hour zine making challenge.

10 cm x 15 cm, 24 pages

PO Box U360 Wollongong Uni NSW 2500

meiow.meiow@gmail.com

www.24hourzines.com

Just to annoy you is especially designed with an upside down cover...just to annoy you. This issue features secrets and conspiracies, artwork, poetry and short fiction.

48 pages, 21 cm x 15 cm in cool paper bag.

Titled after the namesake appointed to the author's personal demons, this is a zine that reflects on the author's development and recovery from anorexia nervosa over the course of two years. Written in an incredibly candid form, the zine includes diary excerpts from this period in the person's life which add real impact and insight. This is an incredible read. 

56 pages, 21 cm x 14 cm

The very first issue.

Sometimes i feel little. when I'm sitting down i feel this way, i see everyone as being bigger than me. when I stand up it's like I'm growing abnormally, shooting up past people's heads - like that moment in the cuckoo's nest when the cheif's hand swells when Jack Nicholson's character shakes it. i feel small when I'm alone, I shrink and the world grows big.

[April 2002]

40 pages, 15 cm x 11 cm

http://www.janita.com.au

the first words written after a 6 month stint of writers' block.

the tanker has pulled into the servo across the road. beeping as it reverses. soon the hum
will begin as the fuel flows into the underground tanks. this afternoon I was alone in the house. summer
was knocking on the door so I opened up the doors and windows to let the warm breeze flow through.

[December 2002]

40 pages, 15 cm x 11 cm

http://www.janita.com.au

words written while on holiday in Europe.

15 days on the same bleeding bus. I'm feeling like I've spent forever on this bus. the days
 behind just bleed away, having real trouble distinguishing between what we did yesterday and what we
 did they day before that, anything before/beyond that and i reach/hit a mental block/brick wall. i know
 we were in Vienna earlier in the week, but which day I honestly/really can't say.

[January 2004]

40 pages, 15 cm x 11 cm

http://www.janita.com.au

words written while I was living in Hobart

snow on the mountain / it’s been snowing for days / black birds quip and dance / through bushes / 
snow on the mountain / it’s been snowing for days / cold air pools and seeps / watch your breath /
black birds hide amongst / the bushes / hide in the thick bushes / snow on the mountain /
black birds hide in thick bushes / willows weep and everything i / write is shit.

40 pages, 15 cm x 11 cm

http://www.janita.com.au

seven deadly sins...

The fan blowing air on my skin relaxes me; the summer heat makes me want to sleep. Dishes are
stacked beside the sink, the bin is full and there are books and scribbled on pieces of paper all over the
table and floor, but i go and turn on the TV instead.

[January 2006]

40 pages, 15 cm x 11 cm

http://www.janita.com.au

I was up in arms...and down on my luck

15 cm x 10 cm, 14 loose leaf cards bound with string

have.you.ever@hotmail.com

An exploration into beginnings and endings, pedantic lists, band hijinks and travelling in Japan. Think of the attitude of Bernard Black mixed incongruously with a small child who likes everything.

52 pages, 11 cm x 15 cm

Here is a pocket full of giggles, cheer-me-ups and mini zines. They are written and drawn by Sydney zinemaker the fetus and include Barry the Hermit Crab, Peach Man in 'The Exciting Adventures of Peach Man', two Newdel mini zines, Be Mine/Break Up twin set and the Robots in Love comic.

all within this innocent envelope

tinypaperhearts.wordpress.com

PO Box 392 Newtown NSW 2042

Mote is a crispy treat that staggers around your brain as it slowly deteriorates and is dissolved into your consciousness. Filled with interviews, memories, ideas, reviews, suggestions, art and articles, it should give you something to think about as you pass through your day.

It's a little like the most interesting piece of driftwood of the mind gathered together and spectacularly set alight. Hopefully it can make you smile, or think, or laugh. I guarantee that, at the very least, you'll end up with a free, miniature, customised post-it note.

15 cm x 11 cm, 20 pages. Includes free miniature customised post-it note.

cameronbaker@live.com.au

On Wednesday is honest, at times interesting, at times boring, at times sad, at times happy and in all areas at all times, an awesome record of the author's life on a weekly basis. It's been distributed every week (pretty much) for the last year and this anthology includes every single issue (except weeks 12 and 15 which the author stupidly lost when she moved house and she couldn't rely on her friends to replace them as they'd lost them too. Deadbeats).

30 cm x 21 cm, a lot of lot of lot of A4 pages tied in a bundle.

PO Box 41 Flinders Lane VIC 8009

A cinematic 'mixtape' of some of my favourite scenes on film. Inspired by the marriage of my two main obsessions (writing lists and writing films), it includes scenes from Happiness, Harold and Maude, Chungking Express and more.

16 pages, 15 cm x 10.5 cm

PO Box 392 Newtown NSW 2042

www.tinypaperhearts.com

I mentioned to a friend yesterday that if it wasn't for the stress of impending exams and essays, and subsequently an increase in my procrastination activities, I'm not sure whether I'd ever get around to writing zines. But considering that it's the end of semester, and despite all intentions otherwise, I've managed to watch enough interesting films in the last couple of weeks to inspire a new Panacea for Loneliness.

20 pages, 15 cm x 10.5 cm

PO Box 392 Newtown NSW 2042

http://tinypaperhearts.wordpress.com/

This zine has been made in workshops coordinated by Sticky at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre based in Melbourne. All proceeds from the zine go directly to the ASRC to help them in their fine work. Issue one is a collection of altered postcards.

40 pages 21 cm x 14 cm

There's a skate park in Wynyard it's fun cos of the ramps and the street. It doesn't drain very well but it's just fun cos it's in town...There are heaps of bogans there they don't even skate they are just there the whole day then they go and steal stuff to drink and eat from chickenfeed and sometimes they bag you but they don't event skate or anything...

21 cm x 15 cm, 16 pages

rankin_sk8stories@hotmail.com

This zine is my first per zine documenting a year and a half of kidney trouble causing me extreme pain and misery. I have always hated those whinging exposes into the heart but I thought documenting this experience worthy of my first per zine...

20 cm x 14 cm, 20 rizzo-tastic pages including a CD

www.667u.com

This personal zine is an ode to being a recluse, complete with famous recluses throughout history and food suggestions for those who don't want to leave their room. Melancholy yet hopeful.

32 pages, 15 cm x 10.5 cm

tinypaperhearts.wordpress.com

PO Box 392 Newtown NSW 2042

This zine is one girl's awfully truthful tale about being shy, with handy tips for social engagements and dealing with being shy. It is printed in black and white with collage and hand drawn illustrations.

40 pages, 21 cm x 15 cm

PO Box 392 Newtown NSW 2042

tinypaperhearts.wordpress.com

www.myspace.com/the_fetus

Because the 2008 diary wasn't primarily meant to be zeen content, the blather entries are sometimes a tad more personal. If you were hoping for my scandalous and juciest of revelations circa 2008, this zeen has the greatest potential to meet your needs. This is probably my most embarrassing zeen to date, so I'm hoping, should that be your desire, you'll be a little disappointed.

28 pages, 21 cm x 15 cm

PO Box 108 Unley SA 5061

yummylychees@spin.net.au

Will some girl somewhere like me?

http://www.brendanhalyday.com

artboy7235@yahoo.com.au

28 pages, 21 cm x 15 cm

Table of contents: Pie charts, bar charts, nodal diagrams, line graphs, slightly more 'accurate' line graphs, geneology charts, more pie charts.

Graphs include: Time spent on activities during the day (Tuesday); Colour of things in my house, and Who the notes are from in our letterbox and on our door (not including advertising). To name a few. We love this zine So. Much.

21 cm x 15 cm, 24 pages, cover not shown in pic, it's a detail from one of the pages. 

funiscool@gmail.com

http://sarahmcneil.blogspot.com

Based on the adventures of Mechelle B. Illustrations and actual dialogue.

29 cm x 21 cm, 16 rizzo pages

Raised Eyebrows complete pack of 11, 'Probably the only one-page A3 magazine of drawings in Melbourne'

A3 sheets

A nifty little poetry chapbook published by Picaro Press. Poems featured include “Spider-Sense”, “You Should Have Killed the Monkey First” and “Mothwing Kiss”. Cover illustration by Hugh Ford.

24 pages, 21 cm x 13 cm

http://theotheradamford.wordpress.com

Dear Leigh, Temporary Parisian, receiver of mail that has duplicated your journey, envelope caressed by a French postman...a project for you, write a list of 'People I have touched in France' - a  slight tap of a fingernail when being given change, for example...

29 cm x 20 cm, 20 pages (rizzoed).

Written by Vanessa Berry and illustrated by Leigh Rigozzi, 2009.

Just a few typed sentences each page of things unspoken, alongside edwardian lithograph images. Simple. Poignant.

16 pages, 15 cm x 10.5 cm

PO Box 92 Newtown NSW 2042

tinypaperhearts.com

This is a split zine bringing together two heavy weights of the Australian zine underworld with the theme of 'metal' (as in heavy metal, or no metal at all).  The YOU half is issue #353 of the weekly,
anonymous, free, paper zine from Melbourne.  YOU has been produced every week since November 2001 and usually takes the form of a hand-written letter sealed with staples in a paper bag.  

The Westside Angst half is issue #13 of the long running Adelaide zine Westside Angst made by Dr Ianto Ware.  Dr Ware's half of the zine is devoted entirely to Motorhead.  

This zine is notable for being launched inNewcastle at midnight on the Saturday night of the This Is Not Art Festival weekend, 2008.  The zine was launched at The Obelisk as the clock struck midnight and a copy of the zine was set on fire on a sundial as a crowd of hardcore zine fans cheered while Manowar played on a walkman and Slayer played on a lap-top.

40 pages, 21 cm x 14 cm

'Valuable' book and 'literature' reviews from the Winter of 2009.

Dear Reader, Winter has settled itself over my adopted suburb of Stepney. To use the parlance of our times, "I'm not a fan". I usually spend the first six weeks trying to be 'environmentally friendly' by not using the heater, then I snap and turn the damn thing on and it reeks of burning dust and that pretty much sets the scene for the whole season; that overtone of grotty desperation.

For those of you who, like myself, devolve significantly over the winter months and find yourself crumbling into a ruin of social malaise and personal conundrum I have compiled the following reading list.

May -June 2009

21 cm x 15 cm, 20 pages.

The zine that finally answers the question that has plagued beligerent drunks and random dinner party quibblers for centuries - what is a fruit? what is a vegetable?

16 cm x 11 cm, 16 pages.

like_a_pump@yahoo.com.au

After working as a personal care assistant in nursing homes, a uni student studying nursing writes about her experiences.

48 pages, 21 cm x 14 cm

I woke up this morning at 3.15 thinking that I should not have left you. But I did leave you, and now it is stopping me sleeping...

10 cm x 8 cm, 12 pages

http://tuesdaytrenton.blogspot.com/

This zine is something of a legend. 'You' is a free, anonymous, weekly zine from Melbourne Australia, made and distributed since 2001. It involves a letter addressed to you from various writers, usually handwritten, often sealed in a paper bag and signed off 'from Luke' but may be also written by different people. This zine has been known to be typed in Braille, appear inside cigarette boxes, cassette tapes, noodle boxes, and has assumed the form of a CD and an hour long DVD. The zine usually appears in English but issues have included Spanish, French, Greek, Norwegian and Hungarian. Every week there's a different issue - see what issues you score through the magic of mail order! And if you're super keen, check out the anthology of the first five years.

variable dimensions.

The free, anonymous, weekly zine from Melbourne Australia comes in various dimensions and packaging, and here's the anthology of the first five years published by Breakdown Press. You started appearing on the streets of Melbourne in November 2001 and since then appears weekly in Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, Wagga Wagga, Castlemaine, Wollongong, Newcastle and Bendigo across Australia, as well as in London, Glasgow, Ipswich (UK), Chicago, Portland, San Francisco, Kansas City, Bloomington (USA) and Toronto. The zine is also distributed at Sticky, and through Bird in the Hand distro, Corn Dog distro and Microcosm Publishing.

YOU involves a letter addressed to you from various writers, usually handwritten, often sealed in a paper bag and signed off 'from Luke' but may be also written by different people. This zine has been known to be typed in Braille, appear inside cigarette boxes, cassette tapes, noodle boxes, and has assumed the form of a CD and an hour long DVD. The zine usually appears in English but issues have included Spanish, French, Greek, Norwegian and Hungarian. Every week there's a different issue - don't forget to add some to your order.

a lot of pages, 24 cm x 18.3 cm

Breakdown Press 

www.breakdownpress.org