Join us for a relaxed zine-making workshop inspired by the upcoming issue of Ethereal Magazine. This is a chance to slow down and make something by hand. Using collage, found text, and printed materials, you’ll create your own zine in a simple, playful way.

Come alone and make friends, or bring someone with you. It’s a fun and playful hour of creativity to indulge your inner artist.

A patient artist guides you through the session, where you’ll cut and paste together an original art piece. Taking place during the Tsundoku Art Book Fair, the workshop is open to everyone (16+) — no experience needed. It’s all about experimenting, being curious, and enjoying the process.

All materials are provided, but feel free to bring your own magazines or fun printed materials. You can bring your zine home, or we can send you a scan via email.

Ticket €15
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This zine-making workshop is inspired by the theme of the upcoming magazine issue, which explores ideas such as Digital Druid, Techno Paganism, divine machinery, and the ghost in the machine. Drawing on shifts in technology across art, spirituality, anthropology, and the sublime, the workshop invites participants to consider what happens to myth, belief, and awe when technology becomes part of our everyday rituals. From ancient knowledge systems and early scientific tools to chat rooms, algorithms, and artificial intelligence, we’ll look at science and technology as creative, cultural forces rather than neutral tools. In response, participants will slow down and create handmade zines using physical materials—collage, found texts, printed ephemera, and simple “glitch” techniques—to explore themes of community, folklore, spirituality, and the macabre.
Set within a celebration of print culture and publishing, the workshop offers a space to make tangible, human-centred artworks that reflect on connection, isolation, and the evolving myths of the digital age.

Ethereal Magazine is a visual arts, literature, and poetry publication, stocked in galleries, shops, and museums across Ireland, including The Library Project, Outset Gallery, Charlie Byrne’s, and Plámás. Ethereal is a platform for those who identify as neurodivergent, queer, and/or a marginalised gender. Ethereal is a self-funded publication that raises funds through its events. As a not-for-profit organisation, Ethereal’s volunteers on every level are driven by passion and the human need to create.

Join us for the book launch of Nature Boy by Peach, published by Driftwood Editions.

Nature Boy is the first photobook by Irish photographer Peach.
This work explores themes of friendship and intimacy with themes of queerness in Berlin and Galway.

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Join us for a screenprinting workshop with The Paradise Association, where you can design and print your tote bag. Create your own design or print one of their ‘Reading is good’ series tote bags.

No experience needed. All materials will be provided, but feel free to bring your own tote bag if you’d like to customise it.

Ticket €10
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The Paradise Association (An Gee and Justin) is a Dublin-based visual artist duo who share a focus and passion for printmaking and bookbinding. Working both individually and collaboratively, their projects often explore creating narrative-based images and hand made publication inspired by daily life. They apply their practical skills and are gradually growing a collection of self-published books.
Alongside their independent practice, they are interested in developing collaborative projects and creating space for dialogue and exchange with other creatives. Risograph printing has become part of their expanding publishing approach, opening new possibilities for shared production and collective experimentation.

Join us for a live reading event from some of Ireland’s newest and most exciting writers of poetry and prose published in the latest issues of the journal, SWERVE 4 and SWERVE 5 – both available for sale at Tsundoku 2026.

Readers include Emma Conlon, Maurice Devitt, Sean Dunne, Ruth Egan, Christina Hennemann, Janet Heeran, Kemi George Simpson, Ali McGuire, Caitriona Lane, Alan McCormick, and Kevin MacAlan.

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SWERVE is a literary and arts journal that focuses on new and emerging writing and visual art. The journal is published biannually in July (Summer) and December (Winter) each year: 150 pages of full colour, packed with stunning visual art and vibrant poetry and prose. SWERVE is not just a journal: from their HQ in Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland, SWERVE provides a dedicated performance space for new writing, The Lit Lounge, and a pop-up visual arts gallery, SWERVE Project Space. SWERVE hosts online readings: The Lit Lounge Online and an online writing group, SWERVE Zoom Writers. The SWERVE Residency Programme hosts Irish and international artists and writers for short residencies throughout the year. SWERVE supports work from graduate writers and artists by awarding an annual prize of a residency and exhibition for two graduates from Cork MTU Crawford College of Art and a residency prize for a graduate of the University College Cork MA in Creative Writing.

Small Publishing, Big Impact brings together voices from Ireland’s effervescent publishing scene. Join the conversation as the speakers share insights into their publishing projects, discussing the challenges and opportunities of reaching audiences locally and internationally. The talk explores the creative ways independent publishers connect with and grow their networks, making this a valuable and inspiring session for anyone interested in independent publishing.

Speakers include:
– Molly Henigan (Non-Fiction Editor, Banshee Press)
– Nathan O’Donnell (Co-Editor, Paper Visual Art)
– Victory Nwabu-Ekeoma (Editor, Bia Zine)
– Yoli Yang (Artist, Publisher, Distribution Liaison)

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