Self Publishing

You Can Make a Poetry Zine

Or a handmade publication of other tiny texts

photo by the author of one of her handmade zines

Are you one of the many creative writers who enjoys sharing your poetry on Medium? Along with seeing your poems on the screen of your computer and smartphone, how would you like to see your poems on paper by making a handmade print publication?

I highly recommend you try making a zine with your poems, as a fun project for yourself, and a unique way to share your work with readers.

In particular, I recommend making a mini-zine using a single sheet of paper folded into eight pages. Sophie Lucido Johnson has an illustrated tutorial on how to make a single-sheet zine, and you can watch such a zine being cut and folded here.

Why a mini-zine?

1. It’s fun and easy.
2. It won’t take much time.
3. It’s free to make and cheap to print or copy — and to mail.
4. It doesn’t require special software or materials.
5. It can fit in your pocket and is ready to share.

OK, so what’s a zine?

Zine is short for magazine, and it’s an independently produced publication, often created by one writer working on their own, but sometimes…