A Bird in the Hand, a great new zine distro based in Sydney, has given Pod People a wonderful review. It helps to confirm what a great job everyone has done in putting this issue together – our designer Chris and our writers, illustrators and photographers. Thanks guys!
You can read the review here.
We’ve asked 3000 BOOKS blogger and Story To… contributor Estelle Tang to join the team as our new zine reviewer. Here’s what she thought about Book Art:
There’s something about the unsullied propriety of a book that makes me feel both at ease and on edge. Clearly, effort and care go into the creation of a book in truckloads. But the more difficult or deified the contents, the more I wonder what it would be like to tear it up and shake it around. Emma Stronach’s Book Art zine is a gorgeous reminder of this feeling. Emma has taken the pages of her old music textbook and ripped them up, creating sixteen pages of collage and catastrophe that are sometimes delicate and sometimes irreverent. In this way, a book that used to convey information in one way has been transformed with browns, blues, greens, shellac, pen and glue into something totally different and delightful. Book Art comes in two sizes – A6 ($5) and A5 ($10). I have the little version, but the larger version is printed on cardstock and can be taken apart as individual artworks. Book Art is available here.
Jordi Kerr
Media release dated: Monday 17 November 2008
The second installment of popular commuter zine Story To… has arrived and is centered on the theme Pod People. This issue has more pages, allowing a more ambitious grouping of literary and design talent.
Designed by Christopher Gray, Pod People has a selection of words and images by young creators from all over Australia including: Crystal Andrews, James C Spinks, Simon Smithson, Estelle Tang, Kathryn Ledson, Angela Meyer, Sean Greenhill, Sudeep Lingamneni, Jordi Kerr, Kellyanne Gentle and Richard Ibrahim.
“The theme, Pod People, was a reaction to the fact that so many people who travel on public transport bury themselves in their music. We wanted to show them the train station life they are oblivious to,” says Kate Nicholson, co-creator and editor.
“We are happy we chose an open call for submissions for this issue and lucky that we got such a large number of quality artwork emailed in to us. This has made for a very interesting collection of short fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, illustration and photography,” says Beth Keating, co-creator and editor.
Story To… was founded in July this year and is now onto its second issue. It aims to give Melbourne’s public transport travellers an intelligent and free literary alternative whilst providing publishing opportunities to emerging artists.
Story To… Issue Two: Pod People is available free from selected zine distros or as a free download from this blog.
Just a quick one to say that an article on Pod People has been published in UK online journal, Fallyrag. Thanks guys! Check it out here. And make sure you have a look at the other articles too.
Story To… Issue Two: Pod People is due out on Monday 17 November and will be available as a free downloadable PDF from this site. Very limited print copies will be available for free at the following shops and distros:
Australia
Sticky Institute (Melbourne)
Hand Held Gallery (Melbourne)
A Bird in the Hand (Sydney)
Overseas
Cherry Bomb Comics (New Zealand)
We are hoping to get copies into many more cities around the world. Issue Three and above will be global!
We have some flyers available for distribution which point readers to our website. If you’d love to help us get the word out about Story To… then email us with your postal address and we’ll send you a bunch to hand out.
Submissions for Issue Three will open shortly. We’re looking for writing (short fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, comics, scripts, song lyrics) and images (photography, illustration, collage) related to transport and movement. The theme will be announced when we open for submissions in December.
Just a quick post to let you know that the Story To… team have fancy new email addresses.Filed under Networking, News
We’ve started a group called Zines for Commuters on new networking site We Make Zines. If you’re not a member of both already then sign up!
The Opinion Society looks worth checking out too. It’s held at the end of every month at Sticky in Melbourne.
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While our ridiculously talented designer, Chris, is working hard on the layout for ‘Pod People’, Issue Two of Story To…, we thought it about time we got on to announcing those whose words and art work will be gracing the pages. So, in no particular order…
Words
Crystal Andrews
James C Spinks
Simon Smithson
Estelle Tang
Kathryn Ledson
Angela Meyer
Sean Greenhill
Images
Sudeep Lingamneni
Jordi Kerr
Kellyanne Gentle
Richard Ibrahim
Check back here soon to download your very own copy of ‘Pod People’ – free!
Well, if you haven’t already got your submission for Issue Two in to us then you have missed out. Yes, the deadline has closed and the shop is shut. For the moment at least. Now Beth and I are going to spend the weekend wading through all the great articles, stories and images we received over the last month. Boy, are we looking forward to that. No, really, we are. Then our trusty designer Chris will get straight on to the design and layout and all that jazz. Then… the launch party – a chance to celebrate the hard work that everyone has put into this issue. What fun!
A new zine distro is currently being set up in Sydney and they are calling for zines.
Food zines, perzines, good drawings, humorous, political and alternative zines… a bit of everything. Maybe even some kitten-related zines. So if you know those sorta kids or are those sorta kids, come into the light!
Contact susy.pow@gmail.com for more info.
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