Running zine, art prints & short fiction

Between 6 & 16 Miles is a tiny independent publishing operation for the work of F Thomas Green. Mainly, it’s a running zine (made of Nature writing, psychogeography and philosophy), but you can also find art and fiction writing here.

On the website itself, you can find a page for art prints, a page for writing (and that incudes fiction, magazine articles and issues of the fanzine), a page for free stuff (fiction and fanzines), a page for the newsletter and a contact page.

The Between 6 & Miles project comes from a love of Nature and fell-running and art. You’ll find those themes woven throughout everything on here, with the exception of the literary fiction which tends to be focused on city life, working class people and individual dreamworlds. All of the fiction is free to download as a PDF, but it’ll be collected into volumes eventually and sold as designed and illustrated books.

The running zine is what it says on the tin: it’s a zine about running. The PDF versions are free and the printed versions are usually around £7.99 and they come with hand-painted illustrations. It’s very local too; in fact hyper-local might be a better way of thinking about it. The zine is set in the Peak District and that’s not likely to change for a while.

There’s no AI used in any of the work on here. Its not that it doesn’t have it’s place, it’s more that it seems daft to ask a machine to do the fun stuff. If you use and enjoy AI in your art, then more power to you: however, you won’t find any here.

The art is all made on Clip Studio Paint Pro and painted by hand. Most of the prints are big and designed to be seen big, but if you want a smaller size creating, just ask. You can ask for a different print size here.

The art prints are printed here in Sheffield at Untitled Print. The stock is exhibition-standard Innova cotton stock that will last 100 years when you keep it under glass. The zines are printed at Hot Metal Press in Barnsley.

You can find more detail – artistic influences, older work, style etc. – in the About section.

NEXT ZINE

The next fanzine will be about Hurkling Edge and cameras. It’s two thirds written and the art is half way there. There’s a route in there you can follow, but you’ll probably need to read between the lines.

Out soon (probably).

MEET THE AUTHOR

F Thomas Green is a fell-runner, writer & artist in Sheffield near the Peak District.

You can read more about him & his work, here & you can buy his paintings here.