Bluekeys Magazine is an independent “anything-goes” art zine based in Austin, Texas and New York City. We feature artists big and small from all over the place, but admittedly we have a soft spot for our Texan sweethearts and New York wizards. Each print issue features submissions (anyone can submit their art—including you—and we mean YOU), interviews, articles, and games sure to generate a good time.

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The zine was created by Brooke Ellisor and Peyton Priest in July 2020 simply cuz they were bored during lockdown and had nothing better to do. Since then, the team has grown to 20 peas in a multi-city pod.

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What are all these small green vegetables doing in that pod, you may ask? Well in the past four ish years, we have:

• released five full-length print issues (80-90 pages each)

• released ten print mini zines (8 pages each + poster)

• created and sold a multitude of merch items like handmade shirts and buttons, and also stickers printed from the internet! #shoutsout stickeryou.com

• put on over 20 events ranging from shows with bands and vendors (we book bands playing their 100th show and bands playing their 1st show), a film festival, a three-day music festival, a zine workshop and even a kickball tournament (that was awesome)

• done a lot of talking and meeting and planning and hanging out :P

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Anyways—prior to the establishment of Bluekeys, neither Brooke nor Peyton had any experience in design, business, booking, or really anything remotely related to zines or running one. Hell we didn’t even know the term “zine” yet! (But isn’t that kinda the wonderful charming thing about zines)

With that all being said though, our hope here at Bluekeys is that yall feel empowered (buzz word we know—but we mean it!) to start those dream projects you’ve been putting off out of fears of failing or not being “good enough” or not knowing what you’re doing. Simply put: GO OUT AND DO IT!!!!

And when you’re done, come back over and submit it to us! If you call it art, it has a shot at being featured in our zines. To submit to our print issues: click the “submit to the zine” button on our homebase page.

Also—email/dm us to play shows. Also—come say hi at shows! We love chit chatting. Ok Peace n Love Byeeee <3

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email: talk2bluekeys@gmail.com

gram: @bluekeysmag

Peyton (L) and Brooke (R) in Kindergarten circa 2009 presumably working on what would become the first issue of Bluekeys