Coin-Operated Press is an artist-led organisation based in Scotland. We host workshops, run zine fairs, produce, publish, and distribute zines.
Coin-Operated Press invites you to create blackout poetry for our latest zine! Blackout poetry uses found text to form new works of poetry art. You can redact elements of the text with a marker pen, paints, inks, etc. to seek out the poem within, or you can cut and paste the words to form your […]
Read More CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Blackout Poetry ZineJoin Coin-Operated Press and Michael Gratzke for this special zine-making workshop, in which we will collectively address the themes of personal breakdowns, break-ups and breakthroughs in whatever ways they matter to you or your loved ones. As a low-tech medium, the zine reaches across all social groups. All you need are some old magazines and […]
Read More Zines for All: Breakdowns, Break-ups and BreakthroughsSPOOKY SCARY SKELETONS CALL YOU FORTH TO SUBMIT TO THE COIN-OPERATED PRESS HALLOZINE PART 3!!! Grab your broomstick, sharpen your fangs, carve your pumpkins, and channel all of your spookiest energy to submit your creepy creations to part three of our Halloween themed zine! We want to see your love poem to a vampire, your […]
Read More CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: HalloZine 003Coin-Operated Press is celebrating The Dresden Dolls in part two of this FanZine series!! Katie and Chloe both met through the Shadowbox and as a nod to our punk cabaret friendship we named our zine shenanigans Coin-Operated Press. In this zine, we want you to share with us your Dresden Dolls fan-art, your gig memories, […]
Read More CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Dresden Dolls FanZine 002In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to grow mushrooms from home and document your cultivation journey using mini-zine journals!
Read More Grow Mushrooms! Make Zines!Coin-Operated Press is celebrating the season of festivals by making a zine about all things music! Tune your pianos, sift through your sheet music, and grab those guitar picks and submit your music-inspired work to this melodic zine! Share with us your concert photography, write a short story all about how music makes you feel, […]
Read More CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Music ZineCome and celebrate Small Press Day 2022 with Coin-Operated Press and make mini-zines with us! In this workshop, you will be creating an 8-page mini-zine folded from one sheet of paper to take home at the end! We will provide all of the materials you will need to create your zine pages, but please feel […]
Read More Small Press Day Zine-Making WorkshopDo you make zines? Do you want to show them off, sell them, trade them, and hang out with other zine-makers? Then you should apply to run a table for the first annual Coin-Operated Press HalloZine Fair!! The fair will take place in-person on Saturday the 22nd of October 2022 at The Air Bar in […]
Read More CALL FOR TABLERS: HalloZine Fest 2022I can haz Coin-Operated Press zine about catz? Yes. Yes, you can haz. Grab the tin of tuna, squish those toe beans, and helps us celebrate everything we love about the fluffy little gremlins that we let run our homes! Please share with us your cat snaps, your kitty adventure stories, your training tips and […]
Read More CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Cats Zine!Coin-Operated Press is celebrating sex positivity! 43 contributors slipped into something sexy and shared their deepest desires with us in this zine. Inside you will find: sapphic tarot lovers, an essay on consent, phallic mushrooms, bondage photography, comic-strip shower seductions, queer sexuality pride, embroidered hanky codes, and so much more! 18+ Buy your copy of […]
Read More Making the Sex Positive Zine
Coin-Operated Press 