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Toronto Zine Library (Toronto, Ontario) - June 20, 2006
Text: Maytina, Photos: Toronto Zine Library / Fall of Autumn

Officially, Toronto has a zine library now. It doesn't have a home, and while that's a challenge it's also a neat effect at the same time because being mobile, the library is able to pack up and be at ziney events around the city. Suzanne and Deb are two of the three folks involved in this project and they did email interviews with me in June/06. [read]
Carolina Smart (Toronto, Ontario) - June 10, 2006
Text: Maytina, Photos: Lizzie Violet/Carolina

Carolina Smart is a busy gal. She created the website Shebytches.com out of the need for and frustration for not being able to find a site that offered her a place to express herself the way she wanted to. She is also in the midst of writing her first book, as well as a book of short stories with Anna Fletcher and Viki Ackland, and she's working with Anna Fletcher on a site/documentary about death called Two Creepy Girls, and if that wasn't enough she's also creating some gear to go with her alter-ego, Lizzie Violet. [read]
Bravest Lil' Jenn Publishing (Missoula, Montana) - March 28, 2006
Text: Maytina, Photos: Jenn

As you may have suspected, Bravest Lil' Jenn Publishing is run by a gal named Jenn. Based in Missoula, Montana, this DIY publisher carries books, zines and crafts (even soap!) from all over the place. Bravest Lil' Jenn began as a way of helping young writers in Great Falls. [read]
Papercut Zine Library (Cambridge, Massachusetts) - March 28, 2006
Text: Maytina, Photos: Random

Run as a collective, the Papercut Zine Library opened with 600 zines in May 2005 and now has just shy of 6000 zines in it's lending library. The project's founder, Mothra, answered a few questions about the library for us. [read]
Parcell Press (Fredericksburg, Virginia) - Feb 22, 2006
Text: Maytina, Photos: Taylor

Launched in December of 2003, Parcell Press exists for the best reason there is for a distro to exist, to make zines and get them out to the people who will appreciate them. [We'll get out of the way right now that it's par-cell not parcel like a package, you dig?] [read]



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