Welcome to MAKE ZINES TELL STORIES, a monthly zine and occasional life/writing updates from me, Portia Elan. I’m the author of the forthcoming HOMEBOUND (Scribner, 2026), which is about a queer college student in the 1980’s who writes a computer game that ends up bringing together an astronaut, a lonely robot, and a pirate captain in the 26th century.
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one, 1-page collaborative zine a month — print it out, fold it up, scribble on it. Full of prompts, doodles, and weird things I’ve been thinking about. The collaborative part is because it’s incomplete until you make it your own.
Occasional life/writing updates — plus cat photos.
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writer, librarian, “advanced beginner” in Having Hobbies // debut novel HOMEBOUND coming from Scribner in 2026