I established The Shrieking Violet in August 2009, initially as an alternative guide to Manchester. The print publication grew out of my blog of the same name, which won Best Arts and Culture Blog at the 2011 Manchester Blog Awards (I was also shortlisted in 2009 and 2010).
Between 2009 and 2014, I commissioned cover art by artists and illustrators, and sourced content from writers, journalists, academics, photographers, film-makers and others.
The Shrieking Violet is represented in collections including Salford Zine Library, Rotherham Zine Library, the Working Class Movement Library in Salford, the Special Collections at Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Salford Library.
The Shrieking Violet has been exhibited in Stomach Pump at Islington Mill, Salford (2010), which explored hand-made print culture; at Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, as part of the Diagonal Noise exhibition (2016), where it featured alongside a range of art books and magazines published in Greater Manchester; in Fields of Wheat at the Birley in Preston (July 2017); in Represent! Voices 100 Years On, which showcased 100 years of women’s protests, at the People’s History Museum in Manchester (2018); and in Dining In at the Portico Library, Manchester (2023) alongside an exhibition exploring food cultures in the North West. The Shrieking Violet has been exhibited internationally at Bluestockings in New York (2011) and Zine Show, Ukraine (2013).
The Shrieking Violet has been profiled and interviewed for a range of publications and platforms, from the Chapess zine, Fred Aldous blog and Dostoyevsky Wannabe’s Swimmers’ Club website to the F-Word, Creative Tourist, For Books’ Sake and Blank Pages, as well as Manchester-based radio station All FM. It is featured in the documentaries Self-Publishers of the World Take Over by Craig John Barr (2012) and Zinester by Emily Steele (2016).
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Woman’s Outlook 1919–1967
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The Shrieking Violet, Issue Nº 1
I established The Shrieking Violet in August 2009, initially as an alternative guide to Manchester. The print publication grew out of my blog of the same name, which won Best Arts and Culture Blog at the 2011 Manchester Blog Awards (I was also shortlisted in 2009 and 2010).
Between 2009 and 2014, I commissioned cover art by artists and illustrators, and sourced content from writers, journalists, academics, photographers, film-makers and others.
The Shrieking Violet is represented in collections including Salford Zine Library, Rotherham Zine Library, the Working Class Movement Library in Salford, the Special Collections at Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Salford Library.
The Shrieking Violet has been exhibited in Stomach Pump at Islington Mill, Salford (2010), which explored hand-made print culture; at Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, as part of the Diagonal Noise exhibition (2016), where it featured alongside a range of art books and magazines published in Greater Manchester; in Fields of Wheat at the Birley in Preston (July 2017); in Represent! Voices 100 Years On, which showcased 100 years of women’s protests, at the People’s History Museum in Manchester (2018); and in Dining In at the Portico Library, Manchester (2023) alongside an exhibition exploring food cultures in the North West. The Shrieking Violet has been exhibited internationally at Bluestockings in New York (2011) and Zine Show, Ukraine (2013).
The Shrieking Violet has been profiled and interviewed for a range of publications and platforms, from the Chapess zine, Fred Aldous blog and Dostoyevsky Wannabe’s Swimmers’ Club website to the F-Word, Creative Tourist, For Books’ Sake and Blank Pages, as well as Manchester-based radio station All FM. It is featured in the documentaries Self-Publishers of the World Take Over by Craig John Barr (2012) and Zinester by Emily Steele (2016).
The Shrieking Violet, Issue Nº 25
The Shrieking Violet, Issue Nº 24
The Shrieking Violet, Issue Nº 23
The Shrieking Violet, Issue Nº 22
The Shrieking Violet, Issue Nº 21
Woman’s Outlook 1919–1967
The Shrieking Violet, Issue Nº 20
The Shrieking Violet, Issue Nº 19
The Shrieking Violet, Issue Nº 18
The Shrieking Violet, Issue Nº 17
The Shrieking Violet, Issue Nº 16
The Shrieking Violet, Issue Nº 15
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