Sticky Institute

You've got one week left to submit your stall application to one of Aotearoa's biggest zinefests.
If you've got zines, self-published or small-press books, this is the place for you.

Applying is simple with our Google Form, where we ask a bit about you, your zine/small-press work and evidence of your zine work.

✂️❣️ Please remember – we are a zinefest – priority will be given to applicants who focus on zines, small-press books and paper-based goods.

Find the link here: https://forms.gle/8mJVmXyWdwtr5Szr5

Any questions? Just comment below or DM us!

📚 Zinefest Market Weekend – Sat 1st & Sun 2nd August at

IMPORTANT APPLICATION DATES:
➸ Applications open – Monday 1st June @ 10am
➸ Applications close – Sunday 21st June @ 11pm
➸ Application results via email – Sunday 28th June to Sunday 5th July

WHAT IS AUCKLAND ZINEFEST?
Held over two days at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, we are one of many zinefests held across Aotearoa, New Zealand, showcasing local and international zines, small-press books and other self-published works. Rooted in DIY zine culture, we aim to make this a space to share, connect and celebrate the beauty, variation and printed goodness of zines!

STICKY INSTITUTE HAS RE-OPENED IN CAMPBELL ARCADE!!!!!!!

Sticky Institute will be in Geelong this Saturday June 20th for the G:Zines Swap and Sell event!

STICKY INSTITUTE WILL BE OPEN AT OUR NEW HOME OF SHOP 2 CAMPBELL ARCADE, MELBOURNE FROM 12 NOON ON TUESDAY 16TH JUNE 2026!!

We’re so excited to see y’all in just a few weeks for our mid-winter zine market! We’re going hard on the trade theme again year and can’t wait to see what y’all end up bartering with and for!

The wonderful poster for this market was designed by .ziner

We’re grateful to the Creative Communities Scheme and Te Herenga Waka for their support 💡

The Sticky Institute photocopier has moved to the new location at Shop 2 Campbell Arcade!!!!!! New shop opens on June 16th!!

Here is how the new Sticky Institute shop is looking at 2 Campbell Arcade, Melbourne after the removal van dropped everything off this morning. For anyone who spent way too much of their teenage or not so teenage years at the old Sticky shop between 2001 and 2022 this will really pull on the heart strings. The new shop opens on June 16th!!!!!!! Yes, I am excited!!!!!!

The Luke Sticky interview is up on the Folio Comics site here: https://foliocomics.com/interviews/int_5. Go have a look at Folio, it is seriously incredible. Here's what Folio have got to say about the Luke Sticky interview:

Ever been curious about zines? Well maybe you should talk to this guy, Luke Sticky (Sinclair), co-founder of and Festival of the Photocopier, the tectonic movement behind , creator of the over-two-decades-old weekly zine YOU, and co-host of ZINE! with Cora Zon on Yarra Valley FM, where you might hear him describe a zine as an independent publication. A small handmade magazine. Usually made by an individual or a small group of individuals. Often stapled. Often photocopied. Made with honesty, and always for love and not for profit.
Then, he'll tell you a zine can break one or all of those rules and still be a zine. He might tell you about zine distros that have come and gone. Sticky's near misses. About a zine he loves. The role of zine fairs. And about how, sometimes, once you've made one zine, it becomes a thing that just has to keep happening.
Read his interview with Liz and Ronnie now on folicomics.com.
Pictured in this post are copies of YOU, Luke's YOU stamp (courtesy of Luke) and the 'Down Down Under' anthology, edited by with cover art by .ionatan and books from by Mira Schlosberg, , and .
Portrait of Luke by Liz and Ronnie.

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Be a stall-holder at the Mildura Zine + Art Fair on Saturday 5 September.

Apply for a stall here: https://www.milduraartscentre.com.au/whatson/zine-art-fair