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 Presents: An Evening With… THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT. See below for details. Join us on Zoom! 23rd April 2021 20:00 – 22:00 GMT Poets, musicians, and playwrights unite! We have 20 performers booked for your evening of delights! We are really excited to be hosting this virtual open-mic night in aid of […]
Read More COIN-OPERATED PRESS PRESENTS: an evening with…Will you be my Valenzine? Chloe drew this illustration as a greeting card design for Coin-Operated Press and we are a little bit in love with it! You can check it out now in the Coin-Op Shop and grab your own Valenzine cards to send off to all the wonderful folks in your life that […]
Read More Be My Valenzine?Applications are now open for our zine celebrating Relationships! In this loved up month of February we want you to share your relationship stories! In this zine we are celebrating all the forms of love that humans can express… be that romances, friendships, love for your family, affection doted on your pets, and everything else […]
Read More CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Relationships ZineA few January words from Chloe… January is one of my favourite months… I mean, I hate the cold! but it is a fresh start. All of that motivation, and re-birth energy is so conducive to creative brains. In my own world of art I have been re-shaping my business to suit who I am […]
Read More VLOG: January 2021Why celebrate Scottish poets one day a year, when you can celebrate them all month long, and beyond?! That was our thought when we put together this poetry collection. Scottish poetry is often thought of as bleak and gloomy, but the poetry in Keep Yer Heid is warm and witty – and very funny! Featuring […]
Read More SHOP: Keep Yer Heid A Scottish Poetry ZineAs the English half of Coin-Operated Press, perhaps it is a little strange that I am the one writing about Scottish poetry! I moved up here from Manchester about 5 years ago now, after falling in love with Edinburgh from the Fringe festivals of my teenaged years. I studied English Literature in Wales, travelled around […]
Read More Keep Yer Heid! – An English PerspectiveAre you okay? written and performed by Katie MayesIllustration by Chloe Henderson This month we are celebrating all things poetry! The Coin-Operated Press team loves a good poetry zine! so we are making our own this January! Check out our call for submissions, and submit to our Scottish Poetry zine now!!
Read More Are you okay? Poetry Reading & IllustrationApplications are now open for our zine celebrating Scottish Poetry! Grab your pens, laptops, typewriters, or ink and quill and get writing your best impression of Rabbie Burns, or an ode to a deep-fried mars bar, or a haiku about that time you stepped on a thistle, a heartfelt sonnet about your first time catching […]
Read More CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Scottish Poetry ZineWelcome to our December 2020 updates! We hope you had a fantastic festive season, and we want to wish you the happiest of new years! We hope 2021 is treating you well! In today’s vlog, we will be travelling back in time a little, and sharing with you all the wonderful things we got up […]
Read More VLOG: December 2020This past weekend, Coin-Operated Press hosted our first ever Christmas Zine Fair! As part of the festivities of the weekend, some of our stallholders took part in virtual interviews that we recorded on this blog (pop back a few posts to check them out)… and the Coin-Operated Press team thought we would get in on […]
Read More A Festive Interview with Coin-Operated Press