Issue #5 of my personal zine/perzine Athemaura has a colour cover (with a baby fox on!), featuring personal writing on how much I love library work, feeling more comfortable/content with myself/life as I get
older, thoughts on image, keeping a memory box, quick vegetarian recipes, concern for closure of so many independent shops/cafes/pubs and libraries I am fond of, secret green spaces of London, favourite happy moments, recently loved music, and more. It is decorated lovingly with collage style.
my own zine library!), and more, all lovingly made with collages of
pictures/images. This issue's front cover is yellow and reversible -
choose from stars and butterflies!
I keep my prices as low as I can. Cheaper to buy through me direct - in person, or via post or Paypal. But I do have a selection of my 'zines on Etsy too.
If you don't know of my 'zine - Athemaura was started by me in 2008. Personal writing has always been important to me. I had stopped making 'zines for some time, but since the London 'Zine Symposium began in 2005, and since discovering distros online such as Marching Stars, I fell in love with the creative process all over again. I never feel I can subscribe to a set style of 'zine, nor with content, and I am assertive about making this 'zine truly my own way regardless of trends and formats that quite often dominate the more widely covered/available zines and zine culture that seem to set definitions of how a 'zine ought to be. Some themes I regularly write about are campaigning for libraries, vegetarianism, nature, discrimination/prejudice in various forms, and female perspectives. Each issue, I take a different creative approach to the front cover; the 'zine is also not presented in a standard way, being that it is A5 sized but the text is to be read landscape rather than portrait.