September 12, 2025 · 9:53 am

Upcoming Zine Fairs Sept – Oct 2025

We promised some zine fair wraps but you’ll have to wait a little longer as catch our breath from the mammoth zine fair marathon we’ve been on these past months: Central Coast Zine Fair, Manly Zine Fair, OtherWorlds Zine Fair and StrangeFolds Zine Fair.

This blog is to capture upcoming zine fairs between Sept-Oct. While we aren’t going to all of them we wanted to list them because we know it’s hard to keep on top of them all. So here they are in one place, with times, locations and links! Let us know in the comments if we’ve missed any.

Parramatta Zine Fair, NSW

SAT 20 SEPT 2025, 10AM – 4PM
ARTS & CULTURAL EXCHANGE

FREE ENTRY! ALL WELCOME! 
Celebrate Art, Books, & Zines made in Parramatta.

Hosted by School of Zines and part of Sydney Fringe.

Halloween Zine Spooktacular, NSW

SAT 5 OCT 2025, 10AM – 3PM
MOTHERSHIP STUDIOS, 18 Sydney St, Marrickville NSW

National Young Writer’s Festival Zine Fair, NSW

SUN 5 OCT 2025, 10:00AM to 3:00PM
Earp Bros Newcastle
79-81 Parry Street, Newcastle West NSW 2302

Applications close Sunday 18th of September 2025.

Find out more

Comic Con-versation 2025, NSW

SAT 25 OCT 2025, Ashfield Library

Comic Con-versation is back at Ashfield Library to celebrate the best of local comic culture on Saturday 25 October 2025. I went last year and it was a pretty great with talks by zinesters and comic artists and a small but excellent zine/comic fair.

Applications are open until 28 SEPT 2025. Find out more here.

Hallozeen Zine Fair, VIC

SUN 26TH OCT, 12PM-5PM

Kensington Town Hall, 30-34 Bellair St, Kensington VIC 3031

FYI coming is costume is encouraged. Can’t wait to see all the Edward Cullens.

More info here

Go find us on instagram

x Mary-Helen D / TPH

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July 21, 2025 · 5:12 pm

New Zines – A Stranger to Myself and others

Hello again

It’s been ten years since I photocopied my last zine, and I don’t think I tabled that anywhere or wrote about that one at all. So consider this a long overdue zine update, as well as some of the zines I’ve written this year after a decade long hiatus.

This is the Day, 2015, A6, 40 pages

This was written in the year I turned 30, and is about living alone for the first time and my own propensity for aloneness. It’s interesting to me to read over it now, 8 years into living on my own in various places. It’s also a little bit about dating and getting into relationships and making your life change in the ways that you want.

Box Box Baby, 2025, A6, 44 pages

This zine is about my current obsession, Formula 1, but is also about sports fandoms, rivalries, and how the narratives we create about sport can be as satisfying and delusional as the narratives we create about ourselves. Consider it a primer to Formula 1 from the perspective of someone who doesn’t play or watch any other sports. No wheel knowledge required. Cover is an illustration of the McLaren rear brake by Rosario Giuliana.

Panacea for Loneliness #5, 2025, A6, 16 pages

This is number five in my series about my favourite films. This one is about films I’ve seen in the last five or so years, and is very loosely linked around the theme of grief (although not really intentionally). Think Aftersun, Personal Shopper, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed and more.

A Stranger to Myself, 2025, A5, 64 pages

In 2024, after a period of pretty intense burnout, I took five months off work to travel around South America with a friend. This hefty tome is a travel diary of my experiences across Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Treat this as a virtual holiday, or as a travel guide to your own trip. I tried, but I don’t think I was able to convey how incredibly transformative this was. I miss everything every day.

All of these will be at the Northern Beaches Libraries zine fair on 26 July and Other Worlds zine fair on 2 August 2025. See you there!

x Amanda B

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July 14, 2025 · 12:01 pm

See you there? Upcoming Sydney Zine Fairs

We’ve managed to log back into this blog and we are super hyped to back into making zines after a long, lonnnnnnng hiatus! We now have an IG account tinypaperheartszines.

In March, we tabled the Blue Mountains Zine Fair at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre. It was wonderful the see a thriving zine community had gathered. Thanks to the organisers, a small cohort of volunteers and the BMCC for making it happen. Did you know they run a monthly zine club? Find out more here: MTN Monthly Zine Club. All welcome to attend. Some photos below:

Follow on IG: mtnszineclub

Upcoming Zine Fairs

Tiny Paper Hearts will be tabling at the following the zine fairs over the next couple of weekends.

Central Coast Zine Fair 2025

When: Saturday19 July 10am – 3pm

Where: Gosford Regional Gallery – Studios 2 and 3, 36 Webb St, East Gosford NSW 2250

Stay around for ZINEergy Risograph Exhibition opening 4-6pm

Follow on IG: centralcoastzinefair

Zine Fair at Manly Library 2025

When: Saturday 26th July, 10am – 2pm

Where: 1 Market Ln, Manly NSW 2095

Mary-Helen will be running a drop-in Wonder Turner making workshops at the zine fair. All ages welcome, sure to be delightful.

Find out more: Northern Beaches Library Zine Fair

Other Worlds Zine Fair 2025

When: Saturday 2nd August, 10am – 3pm

Where: Marrickville Town Hall, 303 Marrickville Rd, Marrickville NSW 2204

Follow on IG: otherworldszinefair

Hope to see you there! Come say Hi and trade zines with us!

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February 7, 2012 · 5:23 pm

New Zine – Letters To A Sister


Hey kids,

It’s been about a year since we last posted on this blog. I’m sorry if you’ve tried to contact us or have been checking back but a lot of things happened just after our last post which has meant that the fetus and I have kind of disappeared from zine making and trading. I have though just finished a new zine which is pretty much about this disappearance (from my end at least)

 

Letters To A Sister, A5, 36 pages, bw & colour

So this is the zine. It has a colour cover and centrefold (not that kind!) and is pretty much a personal zine written after the death of my little sister last February. I’ve given some to Sticky for the 2012 Festival of the Photocopier (see below for details) and some will be going out to Take Care Distro but other than that I guess it’ll be a pretty small run. It has been a tiring year, and I feel as though the energy I had when I first started writing zines is pretty rapidly dissipating. If you want to trade though, please email [email protected] for my address (the PO Box expired while I was overseas and I was too late to renew it). I’ll be checking the email address again, I promise.

xx Amanda

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January 18, 2011 · 2:42 pm

I am Typewriter 2011, or Yes for Melbourne Fun Times

Once again I am at work sans boss and listening to a combination of The Magnetic Fields and Electrelane (surprise, surprise), all of which indicates that it is time to update Tiny Paper Hearts. No new zines yet for me and the fetus, however based on the excellent times we had at Sticky’s 2010 Festival of the Photocopier we have decided to once again descend on Melbourne for the I am Typewriter: The Triumph of Continued Usefulness Festival.

The festival runs from the 3rd to the 13th of February, with the zine fair taking place in the Degraves Subway on Saturday the 12th. Hopefully some other interstate zinemakers will attempt the trip as I cannot recommend it highly enough, and there’s plenty of other events for those who don’t have zines to sell/trade. Plus Sticky has organised an official typewriter soundtrack, so there’s that.

Ok, the demands of administrative work are calling. Catch you in February.

x Amanda

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November 28, 2010 · 10:27 pm

Zine trade: Blue Floral Gusset and Death of a Scenester 2

I’ve been a little lax with my paper correspondence (amongst other things) but in the last couple of weeks we’ve received some interesting mail that I thought I would share.

First was blue floral gusset by Spurzine, which was written for the TINA 2010 Sticky challenge (I think).

I’ve got to admire such dedication to a deadline, since I on the other hand have absolutely none. And this is a continuation of the themes he raised in his earlier zine Travesty, but without repeating itself – it’s honest and awkward in its intimacy but that’s what I like about personal zines.

The second zine we received was Death of a Scenester Issue 2: Boys.

I have an admission to make – I don’t usually seek out collaborative zines, or zournals as Death of a Scenester prefers. But I was pleasantly surprised by this issue when it popped up in our PO Box, especially the opening article which constituted the most spirited defense of the Pet Shop Boys I have ever read (or possibly the only defense of the Pet Shop Boys I have ever read).

So that’s it. Both zines should be available from Sticky or Take Care, or email us if you’d like their contact details. Keep sending us zines (if you’d like) and I’ll keep writing this zine that has taken me the last 4 months to start, simply so I have something to trade.

x Amanda

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September 28, 2010 · 12:59 am

TiNA 2010, or Casual Work Has Some Timetabling Drawbacks

So you know it already but the This Is Not Art Festival, and more specifically the National Young Writers’ Festival, kicks off this Thursday 30th September til Monday 4th October in Newcastle. I’ve attended the last 3 years, and wrote about last year’s experience here, but I think I’ve filled my quota of zine fairs for 2010 + I’m really tired + I can’t get the time off work. So unfortunately this unholy trifecta (as well as some other inconsequentials) means that the fetus and I won’t be having a Tiny Paper Hearts stall at The Sunday Fair.

But it behooves me to recommend the NYWF program, as there is some plenty interesting stuff being done by plenty interesting people – Bastian Phelan, John Stevens, Leigh Rigozzi, Lisa Dempster and Vanessa Berry to mention a few. Can I also make a couple of musical recommendations? Grouper will be playing as part of the TiNA Showcase gig on the Saturday and kyü will be playing at Soundclash on the Sunday. Both should be excellent shows that I’m pretty bummed at missing (although luckily Grouper’s playing at the Sandringham the following weekend).

Anyways, have an excellent time if you’re heading to Newcastle. Catch you on the flip side.

x Amanda

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July 19, 2010 · 6:33 pm

Prolonging life

Hello, it’s been a while since I have visited our blog, but Amanda has been doing a fantastic job of keeping it updated. However, she has now departed our land (she is not dead, she is on holiday overseas) and so I feel I should update on some zine news.

This Sunday past (July 18th 2010) there was a wonderful zine show and tell event put on at Urchin Books in Marrickville. I managed to make the end of it and it was a lovely civilised event filled with tea, cake and most importantly lovely people (both zine makers and those who wish to make zines.) I certainly hope another one of these happens again in the future, it was very refreshing.

Well, I haven’t checked the spam trap, but I have moved on to collecting unsuccessful job application in my own personal inbox. Today, however, I was lucky enough to trap a passive-aggressive job e-mail. It annoyed me soooo very much that I had to retaliate (yeah I know, bitch bitch), its the tiny acts of empowerment that keep me going.

Anyway, back to the drawing board.

fetus

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July 13, 2010 · 11:16 am

What shall I do with a life turned to memory?

The last time  I went photocopying was in May, just before the MCA zine fair, and afterwards, even though I meant to do another run so I could post the new zines on Etsy and send them to distros, I felt so sandblasted that I could not handle the sight of the Officeworks photocopiers (snazzy as they now are) without experiencing a mild panic.

I’ve  calmed down a little bit now and, as always is the case with me when it comes to times of stress, I’ve found myself turning back to the typewriter and to zine-making and -reading. Plus I’m going on a month long holiday tomorrow, and have put the Etsy store on hold for the duration, so if you’d like to get any of our more recent issues (including Sutures, Shy #2 and Ampersand after Ampersand #3) I’ve sent out a big box of zines to Sticky, and there should also be some available on mail order from Take Care as well.

And I’ve also sent out the first copies of my new zine COME BACK (home to me).

A6 (quarter size), 16 pages. There is no picture, because I haven’t taken one.

This is my first limited edition zine, mainly because the paper for the covers comes from a tiny old newsagent in Melbourne’s Chinatown (a town that I’m unlikely to visit again any time soon), and it’s a mix tape love letter to Electrelane. It’s also about repetition, perfect dreaming, Springsteen covers, and a little tiny bit about when Nietzche met Groundhog Day.

So I’m off to reunite with some of the people I call home, and will be back when the winter weather does not match my temperament so well. Until then, to quote Phil Connors quoting Coleridge, remember that “Winter, slumbering in the open air, wears on its smiling face a dream of spring”.

x Amanda

P.S. The fetus will still be checking both real and internet mailboxes so keep up the trading!

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June 25, 2010 · 10:16 am

Winter activities for winter people

So a little update about some ziney things coming up that I wish I could attend (but regrettably can’t).

As we’ve posted before, the Canberra Zine fair is coming up on the 3rd July. If you’re in Canberra, hurrah! If not, what are you afraid of? Take Care zine distro will be making the pilgrimage from Sydney as well as a number of other Sydney/Wollongong zinemakers so why not, give it a whirl.

Secondly, and if you’re on the Australian Zines and Small Press Google Group you’ll already know about this, but there’s a zine reading slash show and tell at Marrickville’s Urchin Books on the 18th July. It’s being put together by Vanessa Berry and promises a delightful afternoon of tea and mutual zine sharing and appreciation away from the hectic and often stressful (for me at least) world of zine fairs and markets. So take your zines, if you have any, or just take yourself to Marrickville for the day, week, rest of your life. Also Urchin Books is looking to stock some more zines so check with them the why’s and how’s on the day.

Thirdly, and this is not strictly zine related, but a friend sent me a link to the screening of Strange Powers  at the Chauvel on the 4th of August that I wish wish wish I could go to, but unfortunately I’ll be separated from Oxford Street by an ocean, several land masses and the supposedly linear nature of time. BUT, if you have ever read any of my zines (or possibly only the titles) you will have realised that I have a ridiculous love for The Magnetic Fields, one that is all encompassing and indefatigable. So if you are in town, and feel like watching a documentary on my favourite songwriter/musician, then go with my blessing.

And I guess that’s about it. Happy holidays kids (if you’re on them), soldier on if not.

x Amanda

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