CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Dresden Dolls FanZine

Applications are now open for our first ever fanzine! In celebration of our namesake, we want to make a zine all about our love for The Dresden Dolls! 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, […]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: A Zine About Zines

Applications are now open for our Zine About Zines in celebration of International Zine Month 2021! We LOVE zines and we’re pretty sure you like them too! Tell us all about your love for zines! How did you get started in zine-making? What do zines mean to you? Tell us all about your zine experiences! […]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Pride Poetry Zine

Applications are now open for our poetry zine in celebration of Pride Month 2021! Grab your pens, laptops, typewriters, or ink and quill and get writing your best impression of Sappho, or an ode to the alphabet people, or a haiku about that time you came out of the closet, a heartfelt sonnet about the […]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Earth Zine

To celebrate Earth Day 2021 Coin-Operated Press would like to welcome you to submit to the Earth Zine! We would love for you to share your thoughts on the Climate Crisis, your tips for living a more environmentally friendly lifestyle, which animals you will miss the most if they are driven to extinction, your Earth […]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Unapologetic Feminism in collaboration with Artificial Womb

Applications are now open for the Coin-Operated Press and Artificial Womb UNAPOLOGETIC FEMINISM zine collaboration! We are super excited to create this together! This Unapologetic Feminism zine will be all about all forms and manifestations of feminism, and how feminism can be the basis of protest and revolution, but also the basis of collective care. […]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Vacczine

Applications are now open for the Coin-Operated Press VACCZINE! We are super excited to create this second part to our launching Quaranzine! This Vacczine will be all about the COVID-19 vaccine, and how you are all feeling about the current pandemic situation. We would love you to respond with your thoughts on the crisis, how […]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Relationships Zine

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 […]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Scottish Poetry Zine

Applications 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 […]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Hallozine

SPOOKY SCARY SKELETONS CALL YOU FORTH TO SUBMIT TO THE COIN-OPERATED PRESS HALLOZINE!!! Grab your broomstick, sharpen your fangs, carve your pumpkins, and channel all of your spookiest energy to submit your creepy creations to our Halloween themed zine! We want to see your love poem to a vampire, your werewolf comic, your witches’ brew […]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: We Are Here Poetry Zine!

CALLING ALL LGBT+ FOLKS! Zine call-out for poetry. APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN! Send us your words! We want to create a zine that spreads awareness of invisible illness, chronic pain, and disability within the queer community. It Share your confusion, your anxiety, your anger, and your activism. Share your passions, your goals, your achievements. […]