Northwest Zine Fest is a zine festival originally started in 2014. Founded by prominent individuals in the zine community such as Cherry Styles, Ingrid Boring and Steve Carlton and Elizabeth Murray-Jones, it brings together zine makers to display and sell their work.
For this years festival in Manchester, Shy Bairns put in an application for a table and were accepted to be stallholders. This will be a good opportunity for the collective to establish ourselves within wider zine circles and to network with other members of the zine community outside of Leeds, with potential to find new stockists for our publications and future project collaborators.