“Homemade” Zine Bakery zines are made by me (Amanda Wyatt Visconti); “Bakeshop” Zine Bakery zines are collaborations made by me + other folks.

All zines (in order of release date, starting with most recent):

8. Queer Book History by Amanda Wyatt Visconti; Alex Wingate; Nicole Infanta Keller & Cait Coker; & the SHARP Queer Book History 2025 Bibliography Team. (Zine Bakery Bakeshop #4)
7. “BookLab Time Machine (“Very Drafty V1!”) by Amanda Wyatt Visconti. (Zine Bakery Biscuit #3)
6. Yes, Virginia, there is ICE here too by Amanda Wyatt Visconti. (Zine Bakery Biscuit #2)
5. The Good Pets of UVA Library by Amanda Wyatt Visconti, with UVA Library colleagues. (Zine Bakery Bakeshop #3)
4. DIY Web Archiving by Quinn Dombrowski, Tessa Walsh, Anna Kijas, Ilya Kreymer, & Amanda Wyatt Visconti. (Zine Bakery Bakeshop #2)
3. Look!! Here’s your unusual letterpress blocks invitation to joy: a collage mini-zine by Amanda Wyatt Visconti. (Zine Bakery Hand Pie #1)
2. Speedweve for Mending (#DHMakes Methodz Zines #1) by Amanda Wyatt Visconti & Samantha Blickhan. (Zine Bakery Bakeshop #1)
1. Lasercutting! Cheatsheet mini-zine for a Very Specific use case by Amanda Wyatt Visconti. (Zine Bakery Biscuit #1)

Zines by type

Biscuits (mini-zines)

• Biscuit #3: “BookLab Time Machine (“Very Drafty V1!”) by Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• Biscuit #2: Yes, Virginia, there is ICE here too
• Biscuit #1: Lasercutting! Cheatsheet mini-zine for a Very Specific use case

Hand Pies (quarter-size zines)

• Hand Pie #1: Look!! Here’s your unusual letterpress blocks invitation to joy: a collage mini-zine

Bakeshop (zines by me with co-creators)

• Zine Bakery Bakeshop #4: Queer Book History by Amanda Wyatt Visconti; Alex Wingate; Nicole Infanta Keller & Cait Coker; & the SHARP Queer Book History 2025 Bibliography Team
• Zine Bakery Bakeshop #3: The Good Pets of UVA Library with UVA Library colleagues
• Zine Bakery Bakeshop #2: DIY Web Archiving by Quinn Dombrowski, Tessa Walsh, Anna Kijas, Ilya Kreymer, and Amanda Wyatt Visconti
• Zine Bakery Bakeshop #1: Speedweve for Mending (#DHMakes Methodz Zines #1) with Samantha Blickhan

External bakers (zines led by others, with contributions from me)

• “Play with your data”. Zineification by Claudia Berger. “Themed Reading Card Decks” tutorial section text is authored by me.

Upcoming releases!

• “Bigger BookLab Time Machine: A charter-drafting zine for BookLabs & similar, by [you????] and Amanda Wyatt Visconti, modeled on Jess Walters’ ‘Exchanging Perspectives’ zine”. An expansion of the mini-zine version, as that really couldn’t fit the length of question, number of prompts, nor the contextual info I wanted.
• Brioche (“Letterpress for All!” series) #1, #2, & #3. 3 zines: teaching how to do basic letterpress typesetting and printing using a Vandercook proofing press, and how to find and/or buy your first press, and first set of type. Zines will be published as part of a peer-reviewed article for Feminist Media Histories.

Using & assembling my “homemade” zines

Tutorial zines: “learning access level” scale

“Learning access level” rates my how-to zines on a 1-3 scale of how accessible it is for you to pick up and do the same thing I describe:

1. You likely have everything you need already to do this on hand
2. You may need to acquire some supplies or equipment (total <$200 for intro project, at least; hopefully more like <$35)
3. You may need to acquire costly supplies/equipment ($200+) and/or happen to have access to equipment you will likely not be able to purchase yourself (e.g. lasercutter)

Assembling 8-page mini-zines

1. Initial folds & cut steps, in images via Ashley Topacio (you can also Google for many video options)
2. Getting everything lined up neatly (paraphrasing Reddit user Jay-ish’s helpful tips):
   • After folding into 1/8ths and making the cut, loosely fold into correct final shape, but don’t press yet
   • One long edge of the cover will be open (i.e. you can lift it to see it’s back side); gather all pages and this open-long-edge half of the cover, arrange carefully, and hold against table
   • Fold the close-long-edge half of the cover onto the other pages, and press all (always start from middle and move away from middle to outer edges).

FWIW this zine folding style is impossible to get as perfectly aligned as if you cut out and stapled each page. You’ll either have inner pages sticking slightly out past the edges of the outer pages, or some inner crumpling.

Assembling a quarter-letter folded zine (aka “hand pies”, for Zine Bakery Homemade quarter-size zines)

I learned this method from Nathalie Lawhead’s Electric Zine Maker tool for making zines, which includes some lovely weird-web/great-art web design to boot!