Salve

Bindle Spring 2025 cover, which features a digital illustration of a Fender guitar leaning on a large Dunlop truck tire. The guitar is a Fender FR-50 Resonator Guitar, with sunburst finish, a chrome resonator, and two Fender trademark "F". It's a beautiful guitar. The Dunlop truck tire looks worn and has a rusted rim. The pair sit on scraggly, scruffy ground -- pebbled and various ground vegetation. The cover also has the words "Bindle Zine," and in smaller text "FREE ZINE! Issue #6 — Salve; Spring 2025; Featuring Long Island Writers & Artists"

Well blow us over — it’s our sixth issue of Bindle, and we’re so privileged to share the incredible work of our contributors.

Our spring issue follows the Autumn 2024 issue. We were running so late with what would have been our winter issue that we decided to make it a (relatively) on time spring issue. We hope you like it!

Contribute

Wanna be a part of something that brings joy to the world? Send us your good stuff! We accept poetry, digital art, stories, editorials1, photographs and photographs of paintings, woodwork, whatever. Email it to [email protected]. The deadline to submit for the Summer 2025 issue is June 15, 2025.

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You can get a real, paper copy of Bindle for free!

Get your copy by emailing your mailing address to [email protected], or fill out the form at bindlezine.com/subscribe. It’s free! And we never sell nor share your address.

Remember paper? Remember holding something made of paper in one hand and reading while drinking a hot beverage in the other? Remember how paper feels and smells? Inks that could smear and pages that could dog-ear? Read it once, and it looks like you’ve read it. You could leave it on a seat in a public place and be assured that someone would take a look at it, too, before eventually going in the trash. It’s okay. It’s ephemeral but lasts forever in your head. Break the spine, mark it up with highlighters, make rude pencil drawings in the margins. It’s okay. It’s paper, and it’ll still convey the stories we write in it.

Bindle is delivered free to our readers, and financial support from our donators helps keep it that way! We are published by a New York state non-profit and your donations go towards printing and shipping our zine. You can support us by donating through our Ko-fi page. Ko-fi gives us 100% of money donated, and your donation is tax deductible!

  1. The content and opinions expressed in editorial, poetic, fiction, non-fiction, photography, and art from our contributors do not represent the opinions of Monkeyshines Media, Inc. Monkeyshines Media, Inc., its board of directors, and the editorial staff of Bindle do not endorse the opinions or causes of our contributors, unless otherwise noted. ↩