Magpie Zine was born from an affinity for early underground zines—subversive, intelligent, uniquely collaborative, and vigorously imaginative. We are devoted to the spirit of that counterculture and the heart and soul of originality. We support writers and artists whose aesthetic is an experience. We go bananas for the story that has to be told, the story that will only appear once in the world, singular in voice, tone, and approach. Each magazine issue is a themed collection of somewhat unusual, possibly urgent, and slightly unhinged human expressions, existing somewhere between fancy and feral or a rock and a highbrow.

We offer four online issues a year. (We’d love to publish a print version like a proper zine, but while we’d wear our staple wounds and papercuts with pride like we were 16 again, creating multiple copies for all you fine people would take for-ev-errr. Plus, trees. Must hug the trees.)

Magpie is a publication of The Howler Project, a nonprofit human arts collective creating space for connection and expression. We used to publish work under The Howler Daily, but then we took a year off, grew our nonprofit, had our midlife crises, and evolved into Magpie Zine. Check out The Howler Daily archives here 

We’re a volunteer, motley troupe of discerning discontents, mostly habitating in the Midwest. Our day jobs differ, but we all gave our hearts to the arts a long time ago. We seek the fresh and the real for an equally real-fresh collection published with the seasons. Give us your prose, poetry, art, humor, and the wildly unclassifiable. More on the Submit page

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