Journal tagged by At work with

Following last week’s interview with the co-founder of new Welsh literary magazine Folding Rock, we turn to Scotland’s longstanding lit mag Gutter and meet co-editor Colin Begg. Colin describes his journey to publishing, and fitting the magazine in alongside his young family and full-time job as a doctor, as he shares his week.

New Welsh literature magazine Folding Rock launches this week with a party in Cardiff. Co-founder Robert Harries introduces the magazine as he shares his working week.  Why launch a magazine about Welsh lit now? How important is design to the new project? And what does that name mean? 

Australian interiors magazine Never Too Small is a recent launch that made an immediate impression with its refreshingly unpretentious first issue late last year. As issue two arrives, editor Elizabeth Price tells us more about its origins as a YouTube series and the magazine makers that inspired her, as she shares her working week.

Our friends at Amsterdam’s Athenaeum mag shop recently recommended local zine Purgatory Sandwich to us. We loved it, and needed to know some more about its powerful visuals and mix of comedic verve and earnest campaigning. Founder Péter Kormányos obliges as he shares his working week and offers advice to wannabe publishers.

Ukrainian magazine The Black Sea Whale was first conceived as a platform for new Ukrainian writers and illustrators; as its publishers Ulana and Marko Suprun developed the idea, Russia invaded the country and the magazine was published in a very different context. Ulana tells us more as she shares her working week. 

New York-based writer Samuel Medina is editor of New York Review of Architecture, the tabloid-sized black and yellow magazine that is building an audience for its long-form essays about architecture and its place in the wider culture. He tells us more about the magazine—and its rat mascots—as he shares his week ahead.