Indiecon International Travel Grant 2026

Black Tones is a literary arts community for POC writers based in Ireland. We run monthly open-mics and workshops, as well as publishing our biennial zine Blue Bodies. Taken from the term 'Daoine gorm', Blue Bodies is a zine for the many faces and forms that shape Black-Irish identity. We are working to create an archive of Black-Irish writing and visual art.

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COYOTE Media Collective was founded in 2025 by a team of longtime journalists in the Bay Area. Inspired by the alt-weeklies of yore, we envisioned an outlet that reflected the complexity and depth of the region we know and love. We serve readers who want to feel more connected to their communities, and who understand that a city’s greatest asset is the everyday people and families living here.

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Elastic is a print magazine of psychedelic art, literature, and design. We publish work that bends time and genre and perspective, blurs waking and dreaming life, and otherwise breaks form to capture our twisted present. Our goal is to demonstrate that psychedelia is much more expansive and diverse a category than the narrow version of it that dominates the popular imagination.

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Shineemo Banaadir is a Mogadishu-based cinema magazine founded in 2024 to revive and preserve Somalia’s cinematic heritage. Through research, essays, interviews, and visual archives, it documents lost cinema culture while fostering contemporary film discourse, reconnecting memory, identity, and storytelling within Somalia’s evolving cultural landscape.

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Tehran Zine is an independent art-publishing platform and physical space in central Tehran, founded to build a zine culture in Iran. It focuses on zines and acts as a hub to help artists self-publish by sharing tools, knowledge, and infrastructure, while hosting workshops and connecting local practices to international networks.

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VEHA is an independent publishing and digital archiving initiative dedicated to collecting and preserving the visual history of Belarus. At the core of our work is the production of research-based books, for which we conduct our own research and collaborate with artists and academics to critically engage with visual memory.

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ARCHIVIO is an unique object that aspires to bring to light unpublished fragments and extraordinary stories about archives, giving voice to the materials and the professionals who work there. The ambition is to show their passion, make us reflect and offer new perspectives on the idea and practice of memory.

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Black Sunflowers is a UK based, art-oriented small poetry press, crowdfunded in 2020, with a focus on publishing outstanding poetry from women and black poets from around the world. Helmed by artist /poet Amanda Holiday, our mission is to 'centre the edge', visually, poetically and critically.

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Black Tones is a literary arts community for POC writers based in Ireland. We run monthly open-mics and workshops, as well as publishing our biennial zine Blue Bodies. Taken from the term 'Daoine gorm', Blue Bodies is a zine for the many faces and forms that shape Black-Irish identity. We are working to create an archive of Black-Irish writing and visual art.

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We exist to gather people around unbounded storytelling, both on and off the page. The literary world can feel hard to access, and presents a book as a consumable end product; but a story is a starting point, and a practice that belongs to all of us. We create print, digital and in-person platforms to re-engage people with writing and storytelling beyond the limits of 'proper' literature.

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We are an independent children’s publisher based in the North-East of England, creating inclusive, inspiring books with creatives and communities. We believe books are not commodities, but tools to build community. Many of our titles grow from participatory practice — through workshops, artist residencies and co-creation with the children and communities whose stories we share.

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chicken + bread is an independent publishing and curatorial practice exploring food as culture, archive and creative expression. The platform centres the voices of people of colour, documenting stories that are often overlooked within mainstream food media. chicken + bread creates space for lived experience to shape how food is written about, shared and understood, moving between page and plate.

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COYOTE Media Collective was founded in 2025 by a team of longtime journalists in the Bay Area. Inspired by the alt-weeklies of yore, we envisioned an outlet that reflected the complexity and depth of the region we know and love. We serve readers who want to feel more connected to their communities, and who understand that a city’s greatest asset is the everyday people and families living here.

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Crucial Comix is a queer-run nonfiction comics press whose goal is to make comics-creation accessible to a new era of artists. We independently fund the press by running comics classes and focus on publishing marginalized voices. Through publishing print zines and new comics weekly, we work to expand the reach of indie cartoonists and build a mutually supportive comics community around the world.

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Elastic is a print magazine of psychedelic art, literature, and design. We publish work that bends time and genre and perspective, blurs waking and dreaming life, and otherwise breaks form to capture our twisted present. Our goal is to demonstrate that psychedelia is much more expansive and diverse a category than the narrow version of it that dominates the popular imagination.

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Fable Type Foundry is an independent type practice that works on multi-lingual retail and customised typefaces for one person projects to global culture and commercial bodies. We wish to bring this to the world to unite communities, conversations, and also the visual language of typography and the spoken word.

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Nepal Point is a space dedicated to photography, serving as a platform for experimentation, exhibition, publication, workshops, residencies, and research. It brings together Nepali and international artists, curators, and researchers to explore photography as a critical and cultural practice rooted in local contexts and global conversations.

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A non-profit association committed to expanding access to quality journalism, culture, and education, essential tools for shaping a more creative and critical society. We work across three areas: journalism focused on underreported stories, often addressing inequality; inclusive cultural programming; and education that fosters critical thinking.

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Goopy Mag is an interactive printed publication centered around play, mess, and childish glee. The magazine features games, activities, writing, art, and photography, from over creators all centered around the theme of play. We encourage contributions from marginalized communities to celebrate and enjoy play. Our goal is to include as many contributors as possible and in many mediums.

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AMM focuses on Colombian food culture and uplifts stories that nuance complexities of the country's food systems. From restaurants to food chronicles to community-based projects to photography, AMM's publications have brought national and intl. recognition to Colombia's food storytelling abundance. 'Para el alma', its latest launch, explores absence and violence through the sacred act of cooking.

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Hi-Res is a platform for creative exchange, showcasing original creative work by multidisciplinary artists, designers, and organizers in San Diego, CA, and Tijuana, BC. A first-of-its-kind for the region, our biannual &bilingual magazine reflects the lived experiences, stories, and voices of people working to create lasting impact and connection with their creative practices.

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Icarus Complex Magazine is a media non-profit dedicated to exploring the systemic issues underpinning climate change, and the vibrant pathways toward solutions. Our goal is to foster deeper understanding and engagement across political spectrums, galvanizing action toward a more just and viable future.

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imperfect index is a talk and publication series critiquing power structures in graphic design. We invite speakers to share how their positionality challenges design's canon, then expand talks via open call. The title signals a refusal of authority, positioning publications as evolving resources, not definitive statements. We operate collectively with scaled pricing and open-access content.

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Issue Press is a small publisher and Risograph print shop run by George Wietor in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Founded in 2011, it publishes artist-driven work grounded in humor, history, and place. Beyond publishing, Wietor supports the international Riso community through projects like stencil.wiki, An Atlas of Modern Risography, and as a co-founder of the North American Risograph Conference.

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Jahazi Press is a Nairobi-based independent publisher of literary fiction and nonfiction by Kenyan authors. It was founded in 2020 by Ahmed Aidarus.

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Khajistan is a New York–based archive and publishing practice rescuing overlooked print culture from the Greater Middle East and its diasporas. We collect, digitize, and republish magazines, posters, and ephemera often excluded from institutions. Through books, facsimiles, and exhibitions, we reframe marginalized histories and make the “cult” “common.”

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We are a magazine focused on the human being in the digital age. We explore how the digital revolution in all its forms, from social media to AI, is reshaping the human condition, always from a humanist perspective and with a strong philosophical grounding. So far, we have published 5 issues and are currently working on the 6th. We won Gold prize in Editorial category in last Laus Barcelona fest.

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LatimLove is an annual print magazine from and about Latin America that blurs the boundaries between **academic journal and design publication**, weaving together practices of research, curatorship, and creative production. In 2025, we launched our first edition,  164 pages filled with articles, interviews, and photo essays by **Latin American** artists, writers, and thinkers.

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Looky Here’s mission is to provide affordable arts resources and programming to support working artists and their careers, and to promote community building through cultural and creative engagement. Our artist-run non-profit is a workshop and event space, art gallery, thrift store of art supplies, Risograph print shop, and art book press located in the rural town of Greenfield, Massachusetts USA.hoto essays by *Latin American* artists, writers, and thinkers.

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Loom is a new, national interdisciplinary literary journal. Loom works in conversation with non-textual artistic mediums—both thematically, via longform visual art, music, film, game and theatre criticism; and formally, via the publication of experimental interdisciplinary literary work.

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Lovely House is a publishing house founded in 2018 dedicated to promoting Brazilian culture through art books, with a focus on photography and artists’ books. It researches, publishes, and distributes works while fostering photobooks as educational tools. It hosts launches and programs in physical and digital spaces and, since 2021, organizes IMAGINÁRIA, Brazil’s 1st festival devoted to photobooks.

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no more poetry (nmp), founded by Joshua Edward and Daniel Ward, has spent five years editing, publishing and launching over 30 debut poetry/art collections and 15 print ephemera pieces featuring 350+ local and international authors. Focused on Lesbian, Gay and Transgender literature, nmp champions experimental, non-academic practice, releasing four books yearly plus an annual journal through 2027.

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Objet Papier is a micro-press label from Montreuil, France. Since 2016, it published numerous photographies, illustrations, words and digital experimental works. It gives graphic and literacy free hand to artists who are interested in bypassing traditional paper edition. On the contrary of digital standardization, it questions and discusses the different media, as a non-native generation does.

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"Possessed Planets" and "Bizarre Bookstore" are collaborative touring book projects connecting independent art scenes of Manila &Tokyo 2d World. "Bizarre" acts as an active archive, collecting rare, underground out-of-print publications. This curated collection serves as direct inspiration for "Possessed" a micro-press that produces raw, self-published zines exploring marginalized taboo themes.

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A literary arts magazine,publishing writers and artists from across the world around charged editorial themes;rage,faith,mediocrity.Its education vertical Critiqala operates as a mobile cultural school,runnings critical labs that turn galleries,cafes,bars,museums,streets into classrooms of rigorous,situated, and unruly thought.Both premised on the conviction: difficulty,sustained,becomes meaning.

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Racket is a writer-owned, reader-funded, alt-weekly-style digital publication founded by four former editors at City Pages, the alt-weekly newspaper that launched in Minneapolis in 1979. We cover Minnesota news, politics, music, arts, culture, civic oddities, food and drink, and theater, plus local angles galore. We've gained 5,000+ paying subscribers since launching.

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Shineemo Banaadir is a Mogadishu-based cinema magazine founded in 2024 to revive and preserve Somalia’s cinematic heritage. Through research, essays, interviews, and visual archives, it documents lost cinema culture while fostering contemporary film discourse, reconnecting memory, identity, and storytelling within Somalia’s evolving cultural landscape.

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Shortt Editions creates books, prints and editions that play with, mock and appropriate cultural norms, authority and rules. The press works with a mixture of digital printing, Risograph printing and laser cutters to create unique works that manipulate the political that can be found in the everyday.Books, multiples and prints made by Paul Shortt.

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Skin Deep makes culture in service of racial justice and liberation. Working across editorial and events, we produce and facilitate creative work that informs, motivates and nourishes people in the fight against racial capitalism. We operate at the intersection of culture and politics, bringing together artists and organisers, writers and community leaders, performers and activists.

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As a visual artist and co-founder of PASAJ Istanbul project space, with PASAJ, I invited visual artists to create palm-sized artist books for Small Pains, Great Songs Project. Inspired by Adorno's "small pains, great songs" from Minima Moralia—reinterpreting Heine's "From my great pains, I make small songs"—the project reveals artists' personal sufferings through diverse techniques and stories.

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Sonic Acts Press publishes at the intersection of sound art, technology, theory, and ecology. An offshoot of Sonic Acts, the Amsterdam-based organisation and Biennial, the books, magazines, and music merge research with experimental narratives. Aiming to provide a space for critical reflection and wonder, Sonic Acts Press fosters radical visions of the past, present, and possible futures.

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Space Type is an independent type foundry, design studio, and risograph press run by Lynne Yun (Korean-American) and Kevin Yeh (Chinese-Burmese-American). We illustrate and collaborate with local and minority artists and organizations to release typefaces and feature them in self-published risograph comics, art books, zines, prints, and greeting cards rooted in fantasy and cultural stories.

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Strike Design Studio is a small press based in London publishing books &websites. Emil Woudenberg leads Strike Design Studio. My transdisciplinary practice focuses on independent, queer, do-it-yourself, de-platformed, open-source digital publishing. In my practice-led research I explore not-so-new alternative online spaces, their technicality and the bots that occupy them.

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Swan Meadow is an artist collective consisting of Mell and Fern Meadow and their risograph printing/community space in St. Louis, Missouri. Their work explores the experiences of marginalized communities and their intersections with nature and mental health through visual storytelling.

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Synonym is an independent, community centered magazine servicing the global immigrant and third culture diaspora through a food and art lens. We provide and connect through shared stories and shared forms of caring for families. We amplify and seek out immigrant stories and communities that go unheard by telling these stories we are acknowledging these experiences and creating a space for future.

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Tehran Zine is an independent art-publishing platform and physical space in central Tehran, founded to build a zine culture in Iran. It focuses on zines and acts as a hub to help artists self-publish by sharing tools, knowledge, and infrastructure, while hosting workshops and connecting local practices to international networks.

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Terminal is building a community of Latino artists through books. Working collectively from Quito, Mexico City and New York, we focus on diaspora, archives, manifestos, sound, food and memory, amplifying urgent voices and critical perspectives often left outside dominant narratives. Our practice also tests new financial structures to support long-term, independent publishing beyond conventions.

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Terrible People is a small-run, indie magazine exploring the terrible sides of everyday life and society, dishing out cultural observations with a dose of satire. Our distinct editorial voice is crafted with international contributors, with our design mirroring our style with 2 covers, a defined colour palette and mostly 2C printing. Stack described reading TP as “one of life’s biggest treats”.

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The Dial is an award-winning online magazine of culture, politics and ideas, with a focus on locally-sourced writing from around the world. We publish investigative journalism from on-the-ground reporters, essays and criticism, and the best fiction and poetry beyond the Anglosphere. Through these stories, we aim to inform, surprise and delight.

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The Slow Press is an independent food magazine fixated on the rich stories behind what we eat. Through longform journalism, design, and illustration, the magazine seeks to bring Singapore’s vibrant food heritage to the foreground in an introspective, yet quirky and fun way. We also host community-led food events and share about our practice through workshops and panels all over the world.

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TURMERIC Magazine is an independent, annual publication spotlighting emerging artists, designers, creative entrepreneurs and community-led initiatives in India. We tell intimate, place-based stories about homes, labour, memory and belonging—amplifying overlooked voices and cultural practices in South Asia through thoughtful interviews, visual essays and slow, intentional publishing.

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Useless is a high-concept visual fashion newspaper that thrives at the intersection of creativity, chaos, and cultural commentary. Each issue is a bold, unpredictable mix of visual storytelling and industry insight.

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VEHA is an independent publishing and digital archiving initiative dedicated to collecting and preserving the visual history of Belarus. At the core of our work is the production of research-based books, for which we conduct our own research and collaborate with artists and academics to critically engage with visual memory.

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White Fungus is a magazine and publishing project based in Taichung City, Taiwan. Founded by brothers Ron Hanson and Mark Hanson, it began as a photocopied protest zine and has evolved into an internationally distributed arts publication with interviews and writing on art, music, history, and politics. It also serves as a platform for interdisciplinary art events, exhibitions, and talks.

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Worms World is an independent, not-for-profit, London-based print platform and community interest company that amplifies marginalized writers. Through its biannual magazine and experimental publishing house, Worms challenges industry exclusivity by elevating voices across diverse class, race, and gender identities. Featured in Dazed and The Face, it fosters an underground literary community and is a committed supporter of a Free Palestine.

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zero-Editions is an artist-run publishing house founded in Brazil in 2020, operating from the collapse of the image in the digital era. Its publications investigate the image as infrastructure rather than representation. The publishing house also produces THE-ICONOMIST, an artist magazine dedicated to contemporary image culture.

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