CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Pride Is A Protest

In this zine, Coin-Operated Press is calling you to make protest banners that showcase your LGBTQIA+ PRIDE!!! We would love for you to share with us your illustrations, drawings, paintings, collage, photography, and any other creative medium you can think of to create a pride protest banner. Your banner will be displayed alongside many others […]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Dungeons & Dragons Zine

Coin-Operated Press is asking you to roll for initiative and submit your art and writing to our Dungeons and Dragons inspired zine! Roll up a character sheet, grab your dice bag, and bring your chaotic goblin energy to regale us with tales of your party’s adventures, swap stories of your favourite battles, share with us […]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Climate Action Zine

In this zine, Coin-Operated Press is calling you to action to positively panic with us in response to the Climate Crisis! Unfurl your protest banners and let us march for the future of our planet together in this zine! We would love you to share with us your planet-saving tips and tricks, your lovesong to […]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Chronically Iconic Zine

In this zine, Coin-Operated Press is creating a space for our chronically iconic zinesters to share their stories of living with a chronic health issue. Rest your weary body, unpack your favourite stim toy, take your meds and submit to our zine with: an essay of your tips for coping mechanisms, tips and tricks for […]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Sex Positive Zine

In this loved up month of February, Coin-Operated Press is celebrating sex positivity! Slip into something sexy and share with us your deepest darkest desires! We want to see a photo-essay of your fetishes, an ode to your favourite vibrator, your stories from life as a sex worker, a poem celebrating your kink pride, an […]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Depression Walks Zine

A coping mechanism for our poor mental health that we use at Coin-Operated Press is to step outside at least once a day. We give ourselves a task on this small outdoor adventure to take photographs of a different thing each time, and if we can manage it, walking further and further away from our […]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: NERD ZINE

Is it a bird?! Is it a plane?! No! It’s a new call for submissions for the Coin-Operated Press NERD ZINE!!! Dust off your cosplay, put on your one ring, find the droids you’ve been looking for, stop your variant from destroying the world, secure your glass slipper, pack your rock salt and holy water, […]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: HALLOZINE PART 2

SPOOKY SCARY SKELETONS CALL YOU FORTH TO SUBMIT TO THE COIN-OPERATED PRESS HALLOZINE PART 2!!! Grab your broomstick, sharpen your fangs, carve your pumpkins, and channel all of your spookiest energy to submit your creepy creations to part two of our Halloween themed zine! We want to see your love poem to a vampire, your […]

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! […]