Coin-Operated Press is an artist-led organisation based in Scotland. We host workshops, run zine fairs, produce, publish, and distribute zines.
Why 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 PressCheck out Tentaclerental at The First Annual [Virtual] Coin-Operated Press Christmas Zine Fair by clicking this link now!! “Tentaclerental is Ren Wednesday, a queer zine-maker, artist, carer, sometime podcaster, and fledgling drummer who lives in Glasgow and is acquiring hobbies at an alarming rate. Their published zines are both personal and fictional, and explore themes […]
Read More An Interview with TentaclerentalCheck out sublunam at The First Annual [Virtual] Coin-Operated Press Christmas Zine Fair by clicking this link now!! “Jess uses found words and erasure to create hybrid texts that reflect on mental health, relationships, and the body. Her background is in the history of medicine and the brain in antiquity, and she’s currently writing a […]
Read More An Interview with sublunamCheck out Sean Dempsey at The First Annual [Virtual] Coin-Operated Press Christmas Zine Fair by clicking this link now!! “Sean Dempsey graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a BFA in Sequential Art. His independent comics focus on curiosity and adventure through traveling or misfit characters. Whether in a comic, illustration, or […]
Read More An Interview with Sean DempseyCheck out Regional By Sam at The First Annual [Virtual] Coin-Operated Press Christmas Zine Fair by clicking this link now!! “Sam has always been an “artist” but is a relatively new zinester based in Doylestown, PA. She recently opened a new Instagram account dedicated to her art (@RegionalBySam) and loves to exchange/share zines. Most of […]
Read More An Interview with Regional By Sam