Part lit mag, part flea market, part coping tool box, this zine is a patchwork altar to all the ways we keep going.
This isn’t your grandma’s grief manual—unless your grandma was a punk witch with a tarot deck and a trauma degree. Howl + Hold is a tender, gritty little zine for anyone learning to live with loss while still showing up to brunch, group texts, and the unbearable miracle of being alive.
Grief builds shrines in the unlikeliest of places: a jacket never worn again, a half-empty cup on the kitchen table, a saved voicemail. Some altars we build with intention—candles lit, photos framed, stones carefully placed. Others assemble themselves slowly, without our permission or awareness. Howl & Hold Issue #2 invites you to explore the sacred spaces of your grief… those built, stumbled upon, or refused. This issue, ALTARS, asks: What do you return to again and again in your mourning? What objects or spaces have become charged with meaning? What cannot be held, even here?
Inside: collage, paintings, photographs, mini rituals, prompts, poetry, prose, psychoeducation, and weird little wisdoms to help you hold your grief without letting it eat you alive. Cry on it, write in it, throw it across the room—it can take it.
44 pages
Full color design
35+ artists and authors included
100 lb paper
Locally printed by Fireball Printing
Saddle-stitch binding
About pricing:
I spend 24-36 hours designing each issue and another 15+ hours on marketing and gathering submissions. That doesn’t include the hours and effort each contributor poured into feeling their feelings and creating their work. I say all of this to be transparent and to illustrate that this isn’t a get-rich-quick situation—it’s a labor of love. And I hope you love it.
My shipping and return policies are here at the bottom of the page.
Part lit mag, part flea market, part coping tool box, this zine is a patchwork altar to all the ways we keep going.
This isn’t your grandma’s grief manual—unless your grandma was a punk witch with a tarot deck and a trauma degree. Howl + Hold is a tender, gritty little zine for anyone learning to live with loss while still showing up to brunch, group texts, and the unbearable miracle of being alive.
Grief builds shrines in the unlikeliest of places: a jacket never worn again, a half-empty cup on the kitchen table, a saved voicemail. Some altars we build with intention—candles lit, photos framed, stones carefully placed. Others assemble themselves slowly, without our permission or awareness. Howl & Hold Issue #2 invites you to explore the sacred spaces of your grief… those built, stumbled upon, or refused. This issue, ALTARS, asks: What do you return to again and again in your mourning? What objects or spaces have become charged with meaning? What cannot be held, even here?
Inside: collage, paintings, photographs, mini rituals, prompts, poetry, prose, psychoeducation, and weird little wisdoms to help you hold your grief without letting it eat you alive. Cry on it, write in it, throw it across the room—it can take it.
44 pages
Full color design
35+ artists and authors included
100 lb paper
Locally printed by Fireball Printing
Saddle-stitch binding
About pricing:
I spend 24-36 hours designing each issue and another 15+ hours on marketing and gathering submissions. That doesn’t include the hours and effort each contributor poured into feeling their feelings and creating their work. I say all of this to be transparent and to illustrate that this isn’t a get-rich-quick situation—it’s a labor of love. And I hope you love it.
My shipping and return policies are here at the bottom of the page.
