The Kytchyn Witche Zine Turns 10!

The zine I made with my friend Nadine Schneider, The Kytchyn Witche Guide to Natural Living, turned 10 years old in 2025. And despite having been expanded into a full-length book called Kitchen Witch in 2021, the zine, with its delightful arcane spelling of kytchyn and witche, is still going strong. You can buy a copy of the zine directly from me, or from any one of these stockists:

What’s a Zine?

Zines are self-published, small circulation booklets that are usually handmade. They’re hard to define beyond that because they vary widely in subject matter and appearance. I like graphic journalist Sarah Shay Mirk’s definition: “any independently published, multi-page work that’s created primarily for passion, not profit.”

The important thing about zines, to me, is this: They're for everyone. They’re inexpensive and easy to make and there are no gatekeepers involved, so as a means to sharing your work they’re very democratic. On top of that, zines strip down the creative process to its simple, playful core. When you create a zine you’re opening a space for yourself to make something for the sheer joy of making it, or from a deep need to express yourself. Or both. And I love that.

I've been making zines since 2004 and I’m still not tired of it. My longest-running series, The La-La Theory, looked at language from a quirky, personal perspective. Others have contained memoir-style writing, interviews, poems, or lists. My zines are held in collections around the world, including Poets House in NYC; the Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science, and Art in Scranton, PA; the Zine Archive & Publishing Project in Seattle; the Browne Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University; and the London College of Communication Library. The La-La Theory was featured in the beautiful anthology Fanzines, published by Thames & Hudson in 2010.

You can buy my zines directly from me on my etsy shop or the Consonant Collective shop, or through distros such as Antiquated Future and shops like the South Street Art Mart and Quimby’s NYC. If you would like a copy of any of them for your library I will happily donate it. If you're another zine maker and you'd like to trade, I'd love to do that too. Just click the mail button at the top of the page to send me a note.