Types of perzines

[Don Lee]

I am writing one up but the focus keeps shifting around. First it was a religious zine, with an autobio slant, but then I decided I felt like a total fraud trying to go back to church after 20 years, so I shifted to esoterica -- I've been a practicing magician for many years -- and now have decided maybe it should be autobiographical poetry. Who else is doing what kinds of zines? Just curious...

[James N. Dawson]

I'm not into esoterica or avante gaurde, but the religious zine you abandoned sounds interesting. I'm an unapologetically religious Theravada Buddhist with many questions & conflicts.

I wouldn't really call my zines perzines---I'm too private for that---but there is a "personal element" in most. I do some soul searching in my last to .Zap!!omanias about my place in the zine scene.

I'm always up for trades:

James N. Dawson
P.O. Box 292
Malden, WA 99149

[Persephone Pomegranate]

My zine is about half my struggles with mental illness and half other random stuff from my life. It's all totally autobiographical though.