Zines + Things
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zines and things is a Portland zine team running a zine shop and publishing confessional perzines, art zines, and intimate essays.
05/06/2025
we asked our authors to share about their experiences working with us 🥹 we love making zines and uplifting emerging writers. Jen and Matt’s books are some of our best sellers and it’s always a joy to tell people about the books on our table. read the full testimonies from our first partnership publishing cohort on our blog
submissions are open from now until May 31 ✨ now is the time to shoot your shot 😘
03/25/2025
Hello hello! We are excited to announce that our next anthology, Fallen Idols, is in production! If you’ve ordered a copy already, thank you so much - you can expect it to arrive early next week. If you’ve ordered haven’t ordered it yet, we’ve got a few options for you:
1) Click that link in the bio and order one!
2) Visit us this Saturday, March 29 at the Reed Zine Fest
3) Visit us on Friday, April 10 and Saturday, April 11 at the Las Vegas New Mexico Zine Fest
Thank you to all of our contributors who made this beautiful book a reality - still crazy to me that I can daydream zine ideas and a bunch of amazing people will come together to make it a reality. What a world.
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a literary zine press & shop
Since inception, zines + things has strived to amplify stories that aren’t typically heard. Collaborating with prose writers, poets and visual artists, creator, Rebekah Markillie has endeavored to bring these works to life in intimate, original, hand-made zines. Works like BRAVE, Portland Heat and the others published by zines + things provide readers glimpses into the lived experiences, big and small, of the courageous writers who contributed their stories.
Tabling as zines + things at Portland Zine Symposium 2018, Rebekah met Jessica Wadleigh, a memoirist who left the show with a copy of zines + things’ Crybaby Crybaby. The stories shared in that collection mirrored Jessica’s work in self-published chapbooks Sunshine, a trans-coming-of-age story, and Doing Laundry, a zine which speaks to how anxiety crops up in the most mundane circumstances. Shortly after Portland Zine Symposium, Jessica began curating and hosting “tell me a story,” a literary reading series focused on providing space for LGBTQ, POC and women writers, while continuing to publish her own zines.
It took us a year and a paper slicer to finally connect. When we met in a tea shop in early July 2019, neither of us expected where our new connection would take us. That not only would a friendship develop, but also a deep level of professional respect. We found in each other someone who would answer every idea with a “yes, and …”, someone who also shared a passion for the personal connections that come from creating books from the ground up. It was very apparent that we needed to collaborate.
We’re pleased to announce that we’re joining forces to grow zines + things and “tell me a story” in new and wonderful new directions. zines + things will work directly alongside writers, partnering to develop and produce meaningful work, and providing an alternative to traditional publishing models. “tell me a story” will grow too, providing our audience with additional shows, stronger connections with our contributors, and published volumes highlighting the works heard at our shows.
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318 SE Main St. Suite 155
Portland, OR
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