Journal tagged by At work with

When writer/editor Zena Alkayat couldn’t find the gardening inspiration she was looking for, she launched her own magazine, Bloom. With its tenth issue recently published, Zena tells us about her magazine, her week ahead, and how her two worlds—magazine and books—are coming together with a new series of Bloom spin-offs.

We start the week with Matteo Clossu, editor of football magazine Uno-Due, as their third issue goes on sale. The publication looks at society through the lens of football, with a wide range of stories presented with great design and visual flair. Matteo shares his week ahead and advice for wannebe publishers.

London indie The Fence has quietly developed a keen audience for its mix of satire, exposé and fiction, all presented in vivid black and red. Here, editor Charles Baker describes his working week and reveals the origins of the magazine’s name and their inspirations.

This week we head to Hong Kong to hear from Kenny X Li, who has just published the first issue of YeP YeP, an image-only magazine showcasing the city’s creative community and challenging our expectations of life under the political turmoil there over the last two years.

We start the week with Audrey Rose Smith and Vicente Muñoz, founders of new magazine balcony. Its refreshing view of the art world ignores the usual work-fixated narratives of art publishing in favour of conversations with artists about their lives and practice. They share their hopes for the magazine and their week ahead.

We thoroughly enjoyed issue two of La nueva carne and its examination of how our ideas of Beauty are being altered by digitalisation. We speak to editor Samuel Valiante as he plans the third issue, looking at how new technologies are affecting our ideas of Faith.