What’s So AmaZine About Zines?
August 2025 FEATURE
*Special thanks: The writer wishes to acknowledge Wilson Khor, founder of Working Desk Publishing, for his generous assistance and for contributing the photographs used in this article.SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 2013 and 2015, Penang’s literary scene shifted. Not with a bang, but with a handful of stapled booklets, scrappy covers and stories that felt real in a way mainstream publishing rarely does. This was the beginning of Penang’s English literary zine culture—a small, messy, intimate scene that would eventually claim its own...
