Zine Bakery

I just published a 32-page zine: “Rainbow Rolls: How to print with gradient inks!

For the U-M Book Arts Studio, Tanner Schudlich of Stout Heart Press made a beautiful handbound book version of my recent Everyone inks the tympan sometimes: How to change the tympan on a Vandercook Press zine.

I just published an 8-page minizine: “Get to Do An Art or Craft: Applying to artist residencies for ‘non-artists’”.

I just published a 22-page zine: “Everyone inks the tympan sometimes: How to change the tympan on a Vandercook Press”.

I just published a 47-page standard-size, full-color zineication, read censored history, thwart fascists, documenting the National Park Service’s “Life Under Slavery at George Washington House” Exhibit—removed by the government January 22, 2026 in an act…

I just published a 20-page standard-size, full-color zine, Absolute Units of Letterpress: Plus Rad Measurement Facts, co-created by me (Amanda Wyatt Visconti) and Shane Lin.

I’m tabling at the third annual Charlottesville Zine Fest this Saturday, October 18th, sharing free print zines and representing both UVA Library and Virginia Book Arts.

I received a UVA Library Culture, Engagement, & Community grant to expand the capacity of the Zine Bakery @ Scholars’ Lab public distro!

zines you can print for free Printing zines to read yourself I use “free zine” to mean zines you don’t need to pay to access in some way—read online, print copies of to read on paper, and/or get a pre-printed copy of from someone else.

This week, I published a 32-page standard-size, full-color zine, co-created with: Alex Wingate; Nicole Infanta Keller & Cait Coker; & the SHARP Queer Book History 2025 Bibliography Team: Queer Book History!

I’ve got a conference poster at DH 2025 this week, and since I needed to attend remotely and things being what they are, I went all out on making the design Very Extra and much in the spirit of this site’s design :) Enjoy!

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I’m presenting about the Zine Bakery this spring at the Global Digital Humanities conference, and as an invited speaker at the Cal Poly Humboldt Library’s Innovation Summit.

The following is an accepted proposal I submitted to the international Feminist Media Histories journal special issue on “Craftwork within the Digital”, guest-edited by Christina Corfield and Whitney Trettien.

I’ve added a new page (reachable under Distros > Redistro), where I’ll host select zines and related resources by other people.

Full title: 'DIY Web Archiving' - A 22-page standard-size, full-color zine co-created by Quinn Daedel, Tessa Walsh, Anna Kijas, Ilya Kremer, and Amanda Wyatt Visconti.

Full title: 'Yes, Virginia, there is ICE here too' - “Yes, Virginia, there is ICE here too” (Zine Bakery Biscuit #2) is an 8-page, black-and-white minizine explaining how immigration rules and rhetoric impact Charottesville folks even though we’re in the…

Full title: 'The Good Pets of UVA Library' - The Good Pets of UVA Library is a whopping 36-page standard-size, full-color zine created by me (Amanda Wyatt Visconti) with text and photos of pets contributed by UVA Library colleagues: Arin Bennett Leigh Roc…

My research talk on my Zine Bakery project was accepted to Global DH 2025 - My presentation on “Zine Bakery: borderless DH research, methods training, and scholarly communication via zines” was accepted to the Spring Global DH 2025 conference.

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