The morning after…

Photo credit: Linsey Rendell

Morning! (Well, actually it’s afternoon now…) Thank you to all the lovely folk who came along to support the launch of our little mag last night. It was a super splendid affair! We'd like to say thank you to Brew for hosting our little event, Inland Sea for playing some swell tunes, Holly Riding, Jaclyn Bates and Clare Barrett for exhibiting some amazing art, and everyone who helped with setting up and making the night a success. We had a great (yet slightly balmy) evening.

If you missed out on grabbing your very own copy of Seam Magazine’s first issue last night, don’t fret! It’ll be in independent bookstores, fashion and craft boutiques and gift-type shops all around Australia from this week. Here’s the first list of stockists to get you started:

Nook (Brisbane)
Cultiver (Ipswich)
Blackbird Corner (Newcastle)
Little Papercup (Newcastle)
Sweets Workshop (Sydney)
Follow Store (Sydney)
Smiths Alternative Bookshop (Canberra)
Little Shop Of… (Melbourne)
The Brunswick Street Bookstore (Melbourne)
Felix (Melbourne)
The Nook (Hobart)

If you’re in Brisbane, we’ll be selling the magazine at the Brisbane Finders Keepers Markets this coming weekend (Sat 5th & Sun 6th) with Alice Nightingale.

And if you’re can’t grab a copy from any of these spots, we’d be super happy to pop a copy in the snail mail for you. Actual mail received in an actual letterbox is always delightful these days. Email info {at} seammagazine {dot} com to order your copy!

New Brisbane feminism zine launches tonight!

Photo Credit: eFEMeral

Here at Seam we love a good zine, especially one for the ladies.

Two months of working on eFEMeral are about to pay off for editors Briony Lipton and Nicola Scott when they launch their Brisbane-based feminist zine this evening at Brew in Burnett Lane in the city. The zine plans to bridge the gap between academic journal and mainstream magazine, creating a forum for feminist voices in Brisbane.

After an initial fear that they wouldn’t get any submissions, they’ve collated a grand mixture of visual and literary content from friends and strangers, with the theme of issue one pertaining to the body. We feel eFEMeral and Seam could become quite good friends as we both have a love of zines and the print medium. Briony and Nicola have combined the grassroots qualities of a handmade zine, with visually attractive computer-assisted design to add that extra level of legitimacy to their publishing pursuit.

The twosome are a tad nervous about their inaugural issue, but feel people will be able to grasp the idea of eFEMeral better once they see it in the tactile-papery-goodness of the hard copy. And considering the number of people attending the launch tonight – and buying the zine for a neat $10 – it might sell out straight away! If you want to find out more you can listen to an interview they did with 4ZZZ Book Club or check out their facebook page. More details about tonight’s launch event can be found here.