Hoopla #4 Call For Submissions
Submissions are now open for the 4th issue of Hoopla – the world’s most revolutionary craft zine.
The theme for Issue #4 is MAKEing Love. As always the theme is open to interpretation (you can even ignore it completely) but is based around the idea that craft action is positivist action. It’s about creating the world we want to see as opposed to protesting against the way things are.
Submissions welcome in the form of pictures, patterns and writing or a combination of the three. Also looking for volunteers for proof reading, page layouts and cover design.
Submission deadline March 31. Email here.
Also Hoopla is in need of a promotional flyer. If you’re partial to a bit of design and want to win a copy of all the issues of Hoopla we’re looking for an A5 flyer design. The flyer must contain the following information:
Hoopla: a craft zine for revolutionaries
-patterns
-pictures
-inspiration
-fun
http://radicalcrossstitch.com/hoopla-radical-craft-zine
Other than that it’s totally over to you. The winner will be chosen by the hoopla collective.
Entry deadline March 31.
Look forward to seeing all your entries and submissions!! And a special big thanks to all those who have already sent some in. This is looking like a bumper issue!
gorgeous pic from Anna.Lisa
Hoopla (Finally) In The House!
A wee bit beyond deadline but Hoopla #3: Radical Inspiration is now available for sale. It’s been a bit of a mission and my plan to get it out in October was a bit overshot. But finishing a project before the end of the year is always satisfying!
Contents include:
creative action inspiration
projects
two patterns (cross stitch and menstrual pads)
plus more writing, pictures and fun!
The first three online orders will get FREE shipping!
Hoopla available in all usual stockists (soon). If you have a zine library or store, infoshop or craft store and are interested in stocking Hoopla, please get in touch.
Thanks to all the wonderful contributors this issue: Cate, Nina, Camille, Katie Lee, Rayna, Zoe, Johanna, Angela, Sarah, The Baronness, Estelle, and Cross Stitch Ninja.
Hoopla interview
Have you seen the new hoopla page? Yay! Thought it was time to have a one stop shop for all things hoopla.
Recently we’ve been working to spread the hoopla message and I sent a heads-up about Issue #3 to the Grrrl Zine Network and they responded with interview questions! It was quite an interesting interview so I urge you to check it out here. And check out the rest of the website while you’re there, there’s some super inspiring stuff!
Don’t forget submissions for Issue #3 close on the 19th of September so get writing/crafting/picture snapping!
Hoopla #3 Call for Contributions
Hoopla #3 is now in production and we’re looking for more contributions. Hoopla is the world’s most revolutionary craft zine and has a global audience and distribution network. After an initial foot in the water to see if there would be an interest in such a zine and discovering that there indeed is, Hoopla will now be offered quarterly. And it’s gonna get a bit flasher!
Contributors get a free copy, website links in the zine and a 25% discount rate for all future issues. And yes, this applies to contributors to earlier issues, I’ll be in touch to let you know how it works.
The theme of Hoopla 3 is ‘Radical Inspiration’. We want to hear and see what it is that drives people to make political craft.
Contributions are welcome in the following forms:
Opinion pieces
Craft action reports
Patterns and tutorials
Pictures of finished craft
Contributions may be accepted in the following forms:
Poetry (completely over to editorial whim, don’t get your hopes up)
Contributions are never accepted in the following forms:
Advertising (ick)
We’d also like to hear from anyone that wants to offer any of the following skills: graphic design/layout, distribution, proofing. Same deal goes for the contributor benefits.
If you have something that you want to contribute that doesn’t fit in with the theme, get in touch and run it by us. It might still be suitable or it might be just perfect for the next issue!
Submissions are due by September 19 by email. If you are planning a contribution, please get in touch and let us know so we can start planning space. The planned release date for this issue is September 30.
Hoopla hits the shops
For those of you who still haven’t got the hang of buying things through the interwebby, I’ve started putting hoopla in some shops and libraries.
As of yesterday hoopla #1 & #2 are on the shelves at Sticky in the Flinders Subway in Melbourne.
There’s a few copies on their way to the Freedom Shop in Wellington and Black Star Books in Dunedin and the Huon Valley Environment Centre in Tasmania.
There’s also copies winging their way to the Papercut Zine Library and the Loophole Zine Library.
And there’s copies heading to the Marching Stars Zine Distro.
Plus, of course, all the contributors should be receiving their copies in the post soon!
If you know any other zine distro/info shop/library or whatever that might be interested in having some copies, get in touch. Or if you just want a copy yourself, check the Radical Rags etsy store. And I’m interested in trading if you’ve got your own zine, or make patches, or badges or crafty stuff of any kind.
hoopla #2!
This is the project that has been sitting on my to-do list the longest this year, and it’s finally done!
The long-awaited second issue of hoopla is finally here featuring all things radically crafty.
Contents include
Fence Stitching
Melbourne Craft Cartel
Addington Women’s Revolutionary Craft Circle
No Spend Craft Month
Wild Earth Quilt Project
Two cross stitch patterns and a crochet pattern
plus more writing, pictures and fun!
Brought to you by radicalcrossstitch.com hoopla is a collection of political, crafty inspiration. Pictures and rants all tied up with string.
You can buy your very own copy at the radical rags etsy store.
And the best bit is that I’ve already got content for issue #3 which I’m thinking will be sometime near the end of the year.
Thanks a million to all the awesome people who helped bring this one together!
Feminist Bookmark
International Women’s Day is always a special day for me because I like to spend the day reviewing the last year of my own life through a feminist lens. I also like to spend time remembering all of the women who have fought and died for the freedoms I now enjoy.
This year I spent a good part of the day with my feet up in my design hub (craft room) listening to an awesome interview with Kathy from whipup.net on the Craft Sanity podcast – very inspirational, you should definitely subscribe. And while I got an earful of a wonferfully inspiring conversation I did some stitching.
And made this.
This is for a kit that I’m putting together which will be available for you to buy soon.
In the meantime, or if you have no interest in learning how to cross stitch (pfft) or if you have too many other projects on the go and you really wish you could have this one; this one is for sale. And it comes with a free copy of Hoop-La for a bit of inspiration.
You can buy it here.
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On another note, I think I’m becoming obsessed with the language of spam. Is there any linguists out there studying it? Today I got some spam through this site which complimented me on such a beautiful domain name. I was truly touched.
Hoop-La #1 & 2
Finally I got round to putting this one online. I put it together in September…
So presenting Hoop-La! The zine for radical cross stitch and craftivism.
Issue 1 is full of pictures of finished work and rants by various people. I used photocopied fabric as the backgrounds for the different pages and it looks real pretty.
You can pick up yourself a copy here. Let me know if you want a copy to copy for a zine store or library and I can send you an un-stapled version.
This is also a call out for Issue 2. So if you have a little rant written about craft and politics or you’ve got some finished stuff that needs to be seen, please send it in by March 31.
Issue 2 is also going to feature an exclusive pattern!