A literary creative artistic journal
Shoebox is a self-published, self-funded and independent magazine founded in 2024, dedicated to fostering open conversation, creativity and inclusivity through discussions centered around art, culture and social and political issues.
With the core belief that everyone of us has an opinion, thought or idea that is of value, Shoebox aims to provide a platform on which discussions can take place, stories can be told and ideas can be conveyed, using art and culture as starting points.
How can art and culture connect people? How do they relate to our daily lives? What issues drive us to create, discuss, take part and explore?
Or more critically, what place does art and culture have in our 21st-century world of systemic injustices and mistreatment?
And how does one enable these discussions in a way that fosters growth, connection, mutual understanding and new perspectives, while not adhering to the stiffness of hoity-toity artspeak, academia and gatekeeping?
These questions and aims lie at the heart of Shoebox and as such demand constant revision and remaking in order to stay relevant and grow.
Shoebox #5 — Postcombobulation January 2026
San Serriffe
Sint Annenstraat 30
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Royal Academy of Art, Library
Prinsessegracht 4
The Hague, The Netherlands
Stroom Den Haag, Library
Hogewal 1
The Hague, The Netherlands
Rönnells Antikvariat
Birger Jarlsgatan 32
Stockholm, Sweden
Nord Books
Sankt Paulsgatan 20
Stockholm, Sweden
The Alexandria Deli
27 Ismalia St.
Kafr Abdo
Alexandria, Egypt
Available for purchase online through San Serriffe
Shoebox #4 May 2025
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Boekhorststraat 102
The Hague, The Netherlands
Royal Academy of Art, Library
Prinsessegracht 4
The Hague, The Netherlands
Papercut
Krukmakargatan 24-26
Stockholm, Sweden
MMAG Foundation, lesser amman library
30 Othman Bin Affan Street
Jabal Amman
Amman, Jordan
Falak Book Store
7 Gamal Al Din Abou Mahasen
Garden City
Cairo, Egypt
The Alexandria Deli
27 Ismalia St.
Kafr Abdo
Alexandria, Egypt
Available for purchase online through Papercut
Shoebox #4 - External links:
Crafts of Cairo - Aleksandar Columby
CHILDTHERAPIST (Ashtray, Abortion Clinic)
Non-Institutional Art as a Means of Protest: Speed, Urban Space, and Social Commentary - Milo Hatfield
Shoebox #3 December 2024
Royal Academy of Art, Library
Prinsessegracht 4
The Hague, The Netherlands
Papercut
Krukmakargatan 24-26
Stockholm, Sweden
Archive Souq
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
Berlin, Germany
MMAG Foundation, lesser amman library
30 Othman Bin Affan Street
Jabal Amman
Amman, Jordan
Shoebox #2 September 2024
Rönnells Antikvariat
Birger Jarlsgatan 32
Stockholm, Sweden
Larrys Corner
Grindgatan 35
Stockholm, Sweden
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Boekhorststraat 102
The Hague, The Netherlands
Contemporary Image Collective, Library
Etehad El-Mohamein El-Arab Street 2
Garden City
Cairo, Egypt
Shoebox #1 April 2024
(You are free to reprint, distribute and share Shoebox Magazines in any way you like, knowing that all original copies are self-printed and bound by hand. Sales of all issues of Shoebox Magazine go to covering printing and paper costs. We are not able to pay or in any way compensate for participation in Shoebox Magazine, but aim to give our contributors a place to share and explore their ideas. We print limited numbers, distribute them in bookstores, events and privately, aiming to give each contributor a physical copy of the issue they are in.)
Activities
Dopamin Issues, group show at Issues Gallery. March 2026. Stockholm, Sweden.
Interviewed by Dylan Murray for Revolutionary Publishing? in Reaching Out: A Book on Agency, Care, Identity and… February 2026.
Interviewed by Layla Raik for Within the Folds of Zine-Making in Egypt February 2026.
bring your own book fair, October 2025. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
An Invitation & Introduction to Shoebox, Design Talk at German University in Cairo. April 2025. Cairo, Egypt.
Shoebox at Shelter Art Space, (In collaboration with Felix František’s Haven). March 2025. Alexandria, Egypt.
Cairo Art Book Fair. December 2024. Cairo, Egypt.
bring your own book fair, May 2024. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Open calls
Open call for our fifth issue
Open call for our fourth issue
Open call for our second issue
Shoebox is a self-published, self-funded and independent magazine founded in 2024, dedicated to fostering open conversation, creativity and inclusivity through discussions centered around art, culture and social and political issues.
With the core belief that everyone of us has an opinion, thought or idea that is of value, Shoebox aims to provide a platform on which discussions can take place, stories can be told and ideas can be conveyed, using art and culture as starting points.
How can art and culture connect people? How do they relate to our daily lives? What issues drive us to create, discuss, take part and explore?
Or more critically, what place does art and culture have in our 21st-century world of systemic injustices and mistreatment?
And how does one enable these discussions in a way that fosters growth, connection, mutual understanding and new perspectives, while not adhering to the stiffness of hoity-toity artspeak, academia and gatekeeping?
These questions and aims lie at the heart of Shoebox and as such demand constant revision and remaking in order to stay relevant and grow.
With the core belief that everyone of us has an opinion, thought or idea that is of value, Shoebox aims to provide a platform on which discussions can take place, stories can be told and ideas can be conveyed, using art and culture as starting points.
How can art and culture connect people? How do they relate to our daily lives? What issues drive us to create, discuss, take part and explore?
Or more critically, what place does art and culture have in our 21st-century world of systemic injustices and mistreatment?
And how does one enable these discussions in a way that fosters growth, connection, mutual understanding and new perspectives, while not adhering to the stiffness of hoity-toity artspeak, academia and gatekeeping?
These questions and aims lie at the heart of Shoebox and as such demand constant revision and remaking in order to stay relevant and grow.
Shoebox #5 — Postcombobulation January 2026
San Serriffe
Sint Annenstraat 30
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Royal Academy of Art, Library
Prinsessegracht 4
The Hague, The Netherlands
Stroom Den Haag, Library
Hogewal 1
The Hague, The Netherlands
Rönnells Antikvariat
Birger Jarlsgatan 32
Stockholm, Sweden
Nord Books
Sankt Paulsgatan 20
Stockholm, Sweden
The Alexandria Deli
27 Ismalia St.
Kafr Abdo
Alexandria, Egypt
Available for purchase online through San Serriffe
Open call for our first issue
(Shoebox Magazine is based in The Netherlands, and previously in Egypt. We operate within an international network on social media and in the cities we manoeuvre, reaching out through open calls and direct invitations.
Submissions to participate in coming issues of Shoebox Magazine are read on a running basis and sent to magazineshoebox@gmail.com. We aim to release three issues per year, with open calls for submissions being spread on our website, social media and across our immediate network.
As an international publication, Shoebox uses English as its primary language while encouraging contributions in any language. By publishing original texts with or without translation, we aim to facilitate an inclusive and accessible space that tackles language barriers and crosses our arbitrary borders.
We are capable translators between English, Swedish and Arabic, and will look to collaborate with translators for other languages when needed to the best of our ability.
All our previous issues are available as free PDFs by clicking the respective links on our site, and for any questions please do not hesitate to get in touch.)
For inquiries, critique, ideas
or to be part
in shaping coming issues,
please reach out to magazineshoebox@gmail.com
or via Instagram @shoebox.magazine
Dennis Farnsworth, founder and editor-in-chief
Lumi Androvic Muzio, co-editor
For inquiries, critique, ideas
or to be part in shaping coming issues,
please reach out to magazineshoebox@gmail.com
or via Instagram @shoebox.magazine
Dennis Farnsworth, founder and editor-in-chief
Lumi Androvic Muzio, co-editor