Ada's zines explore a variety of topics, mostly quite personal, but relatable to others with similar experiences. She incorporates photographic and mixed media approaches into her work as a way of bringing all of her interests together.

Cath is a singer-songwriter from Swansea, and one of the 3 co-organisers of the Zine Fest! She writes a feminist perzine called ‘Here in my Head’ and edits various feminist pop culture fanzines including 'Sonorus: Feminist Perspectives on Harry Potter' and 'Never Kill a Boy on a First Date: A Buffy Fanzine'. 

Beautiful comics made in Microsoft Paint. Bill Gates reversed the decision to cancel MS Paint when he saw them.

Emily's work combines graphic design, collage, and questionable (but earnest) illustration skills with finding humour and delight in the ordinary and mundane. Plus an overarching theme of "queer people are just funnier and more interesting than everyone else" (true).

The Free the Nipple Zine is a platform for female artists to express their feelings on gender equality and the female form. A series of artworks are present in the Zine including photography, printmaking, painting and 3D work.

Hazard Press is based in the Vale of Glamorgan where Jeremy Dixon writes, designs and makes all his books by hand. He aims to create zines, badges and Artists’ Books that combine poetry, queerness, individuality, compassion and humour.

Infinity Press founder Gareth makes short fiction stories in small illustrated printed books. He keeps a journal about life as a creative/adhd/potentially multi-dimensional person.

Morgan is a queer autistic zinester and MEGA-DORK, who enjoys making colourful zines on things that interest her. This ranges from personal experiences and stuff that makes her angry, to cats and that really annoying cold she once had.

art and words that heal the heart and free the mind

Phoebe is a nonbinary, polyamorous, disabled human who enjoys making zines about ex boyfriends, mental health, bellies, and other weird stuff.

Rosie Bufton creates beautiful poetry chapbooks which will be on sale on the day.

Sew Irregular is a zine celebrating clothing cultures beyond fast fashion.

The Esther Greenwood School for Girls aims to provide the best educational materials for your wayward children on matters as diverse as cat memes, hardcore punk, and the summoning of devils. Enrol today!

Pop culture related silliness, a bit niche (covering subjects from outsider film-maker Neil Breen to French popular music), always with a passion for the subject and a sense of humour.

Nia Davies is a poet, performer and editor of Poetry Wales. She lives in Swansea, and is researching poetry and ritual at Salford University. Rhys Trimble is a bilingual poet, text artist, performer, drummer, editor, critic, collaborator, shaman, staff-wielder and shoutyman based in Wales. The author of more than a dozen books, including Swansea Automatic, he is interested in avant-garde poetry and Welsh metrics. Nia and Rhys' work troubles toxic masculinity and the sexual cultures of the Swansea, Neath and South Wales, through experimental poetry and physical performance.

May we interest you in an AmuseBoosh? Short stories of sci-fi, fantasy and magic, to amuse and entertain! Perfect for an evening of escapism!

A zine for cold water women! To lift the voices of cold water women to the surface of surf media and culture for a greater representation of women surfers and sea lovers, in particular cold water women.

Echo Zines is based in Belgium and makes feminist zines such as Same Heartbeats, Space Invasion, CuNt & Paste, From Spice Girls to Riot Grrrls, and Dirty Lesbian. The zines talk about gender expression, lesbophobia, body hair, self-care, DIY culture, travelling, creativity, nostalgia, archiving, fandom, activism, taking public space, and more.

Personal zines to share the mundane and to make it exciting. FAME&YEAST is all about being a girl, seeking connection with nature, loving yourself, skateboarding and keeping in touch with friends that are all over the world.

Happy Clam is a Comics Studio and the home of mental health zine Brain Shoodles, a Fraser Fanzine, with The Spatchcock Mysteries and Pup & Grumpicorn coming soon!

Harl Jones creates comics, zines, and illustrations inspired by nature, magic, and personal feelings. Being outdoors makes her feel at peace and her aspiration is to create work that provokes that same feeling.

In Other Words is a fan studies zine collecting essays from various writers on fanfiction as a genre and its cultural and literary context.

A Swansea based digital artist and aspiring comic book writer, mainly focusing on artwork inspired by mythology and folklore.

Have you ever felt like you are floating? Like life is just happening around you and you’re out of touch? We do too and we have made a zine about it, come visualise our dream like experience in different mediums and styles arranged and curated into our small zine; while also getting to check out the work of each of the creators of this zine separately.

Plastic Grass is a zine mixing writing and photography which focuses on everyday life.

In the Artés table you'll find zines and illustrations inspired by the SEA, showing positive and negative sides while combining abstract and realistic styles. We invite you to come to their place and have a look!

Simon L. Read is a novelist and cartoonist from Cardiff who creates absurdist, non-sequitur, 1990s pop music inspired (sometimes), sexually ambiguous, and confusing contemporary mini-comics.

The Ghastling is a modern penny dreadful, publishing horror, ghost stories and the macabre in the short story format with accompanying illustrations.

Vampire Hag is a small distro based in chatham, kent. it's been going on since 2009 (wow, that's 10 years this halloween!) but it was previously known as Vampire Sushi Distro. it's still the same distro with a bite, just a new name, still selling you all sorts of awesome zines, especially perzines, feminist zines, queer zines and fanzines.

William's work is sometimes an attempt to tread a line between high art and pulp trash, and sometimes it's just pulp trash.

Best Practice makes zines that provide inclusive, creative and political (but never dogmatic) outlets for people to talk about their experiences of work. They aim to provide a creative critique of the modern state of work that priorities the voices of workers. Other zines on sale include Tiny Acts of Rebellion, a mini zine about being naughty in the workplace, and zines on Brexit, commuting, and how to use magick to find work. Best Practice are fun, colourful, but promote a serious anti-capitalist, anti-neoliberalism message in everything that they do!

Dimitri has been making zines, comix and self publishing my poetry since 2007. He believes self publishing and the DIY scene is the most accessible area of the arts, open to all.

Comics filled with adventure, danger, rainy days and animals that fit in your pocket!

Hamhammer is an existential detective noir comic following the life of a Pig Detective Ulysses Hamhammer. The comic deals with detachment, depression and the psychedelic dreams, while also trying to comprehend existence in this crazy world we live in. Oh and there's a mystery too.

Han trim is an artist and writer whose work includes zines about queerness and disability (particularly deafness, autism, and mental illness) as well as poetry.

Humblebrag Cosmetics started in August 2017 when two sisters decided to start creating nail polish. They have since also created motivational zines, poetry zines, as well as zines relating to IBD (inflammatory bowel disease). The proceeds of the IBD zines will be going towards charity.

Kirsty writes the zine series Forever Incomplete about mental health, gay stuff, fandom, and trying to be an adult. She also co-edits Sonorus a popular zine series of feminism in Harry Potter. Her interests include exactly 3 TV shows, talking and writing about her feelings, and fictional lesbians.Her unhealthy behaviours of choice are coffee and self-doubt.

Olga's work revolves around personal experiences of unemployment, mental health, trauma, illness as well as feminist subjects including body hair and being childfree. But it's not all doom and gloom! Olga also writes about self care and ways in which we can learn to thrive in a hostile, capitalist environment.

Peter James Maggs is a Swansea based cartoonist and creator of the webcomic "The Many Strange Cases of Ghost Jones", an all-ages supernatural detective story about crimes committed by ghosts.

Punks 4 Mental Health put on diy music gigs promoting positive awareness of mental health and challenging stigma. They have created zines that include snippets of interviews from the bands and musicians who have played some of the live gigs.

Seadog Collective is a collaborative effort between 4 best pal illustrators. We produce zines and prints on a variety of topics, spanning between our mental health, the beauty of nature, everyday nonsense, and the heckin amazingness of dogs. We're a creative bunch, and we're in the business of promoting positivity. Don't be more positive; do more things positively!

The Brokedown Pamphlet is created by a husband and wife team just starting out in the zine world, and includes flash fiction, semi-autobiographical comic strips and cartoons/illustrations primarily dealing with human isolation and angst.

Thirsty and Miserable is a music zine full of punk rock and recipes. Designed and loving cut and pasted by hand before printing its the best way to find new music through an old format.

Rebecca sells many zines, those she has written and some sourced from others. They are mainly perzines on a range of issues including identity, mental health, and punk.