3 HYBRIDS, by Melissa McDaniel
Melissa McDaniel is Brooklyn-based writer and editor. She runs Get Lit NYC, a guide for finding readings in NYC, and she tweets at @melissamcd29.
Text Message Interview with Jen Hofer, by Taleen Kali
Welcome back to Text Message Interviews! You’ll get em once a month in concordance with our “VOX & Voices” reading series. Meet Jen Hofer: L.A.-based poet, translator, social justice interpreter, teacher, book-maker, and co-founder of the language justice and experimentation collaborative Antena.
The Return of FreeWriteShop!
FreeWriteShop, DUM DUM Zine's free writing workshop series is back in action!
Text Message Interview with Zoë Ruiz, by Taleen Kali
Welcome to the return of DUM DUM Zine's Text Message Interviews! They're back, and you'll get em once a month in concordance with our "VOX & Voices" reading series.
Presenting “VOX & Voices” a monthly music & reading series
A spankin' new monthly music & reading series hosted every 2nd Friday of the month on the charming patio of Stories Books & Cafe.
Issue No. 5: POST & PRESENT Now Available Online!
Finally available for purchase online after a year of its original release! Issue No. 5, “POST & Present,” is a postcard book containing a mixture of text and image.
Issue No. 5 FLASHBACK: Post & Present “You’re Not There But I’m Sending This Anyway” by Ashley Hutson
A. Hutson @a_ahutson Likes to write. Likes to dance. Likes owning pairs of shiny pants. Find her at aahutson.com
Issue No. 5 FLASHBACK: Post & Present “Burn Fat Faster” by Lizi Gilad
Lizi Gilad is a first-generation American of Mexican and Israeli descent. She holds and MFA from UC Riverside's low residency program and resides in Southern California. Her prose can be found at The Rumpus and The Volta blog. Follow her on Twitter @lizinka
DUM DUM Serials: “Little Armenian Prowler” by Justin Maurer
DUM DUM Zine would like to welcome Justin Maurer, whose story "Little Armenian Prowler" we'll be serializing each week in May as the 3rd incarnation of our web serial tradition. You may remember work from our past serials featuring Jessica Garrison's One Dollar Stories, and more recently, Kristen Felicetti's radio play, "The New York...
“Spring” by Mitchell Grabois
and the Earth is a child
who’s forgotten all the poems
he’s been forced to learn
and made to recite before
a contemptuous rabble
WaxPhil L.A. #18: Records at The Last Bookstore, Watership Down Soundtrack Christina Gubala
"Waxing Philosophical, L.A.” is DUM DUM’s monthly column written by Christina Gubala, co-founder of L.A.’s premier cassette-tape label, Complicated Dance Steps. A die-hard vinyl collector, you can find her spinning records at local bars near you.
Text Message Interview with Slim Twig (#5) Bryxan Amsterdam
Welcome to ZINETERVIEWS, an ongoing feature where DUM DUM collaborator Bryxan Amsterdam conducts an interview with a band via text message, then creates a one-off handwritten zine. Dig the most recent conversation with Slim Twig, hailing from Toronto with his killer sonic pleasure pastiches.