TEXT AMELIA ABRAHAM
Ever been down a Wikipedia, TikTok or Instagram wormhole? Of course you have. The same thing can happen with books; in fact, it’s how London-based literary zine Worms was born. Founder Clem Macleod was reading the works of late postmodernist writer Kathy Acker when she chanced upon her biography, written by I Love Dick author Chris Kraus. Exploring some of the books published by Kraus’s LA-based indie publisher, Semiotext(e)/Native Agents, Macleod got switched on to writers like Natasha Stagg and Stephanie LaCava, it-girls of alt lit who segued from fashion writing to fiction. If the six degrees of separation holds that everyone in the world can be linked through no more than six people, within indie publishing it’s more like one or two. Macleod wanted a place to connect these dots, and introduce people to the most transgressive female and non-binary writers working today.
Enter the world of printed in black-and-white Risograph and adorned
