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The Magazine
The printed zine is the heart of Velunia: irregular, handmade and assembled from essays, fragments, images, reviews, poems, field notes and strange local findings.
Enter the magazineThe official work-in-progress website of Velunia
Know this — you have arrived at a special place.
Velunia is an irregularly printed DIY magazine and online archive dedicated to the myths, memories, ruins, rivers, industries and strange forces of Bo’ness, Kinneil and the lands around the Inner Forth.
It is a gathering place for field notes, essays, reviews, fragments, hauntings, handmade print, strange observations and the old voices that still seem to speak from water, iron, earth and ruin.
News
Now
The first printed issue of Velunia is currently being assembled. Expect folklore, local history, heavy music, industrial memory, rough edges and fragments from the edge of the Forth.
Soon
New pages will be added for the magazine, Bodotria, the crypts, music, artists and field notes.
Always
Velunia welcomes strange local history, ruins, myth, landscape, memory, music, print, folklore and work that does not quite fit anywhere else.
About Velunia
Velunia is not a heritage website, not exactly. It is not a clean archive, not a museum label, not a tourist leaflet and not a neutral civic record.
It is a small handmade publication about place: the things buried under ordinary streets, the stories people half-remember, the work that shaped the town, the strange pressure of old buildings, the Forth at low tide, the industrial dead, the green places, the haunted corners and the songs that seem to belong there.
It looks backwards, but not politely. It is interested in memory, class, landscape, folklore, ruins, labour, myth, music and whatever still clings to the stones.
Crypts
The stranger chamber: monsters, myths, legends, hauntings, invented histories, half-truths, old fears and stories best read after dark.
Open the cryptBodotria
A section for the Forth: river, estuary, frontier, crossing place, industrial artery, Roman edge and ancient presence.
Go to the waterArtists
Music, visual art, contributors, collaborators and the creative forces orbiting Velunia.
View artistsFragments
- Roman stones under modern weather.
- Industrial ghosts along the shore.
- Black metal, dungeon synth and music for ruined places.
- Old tracks, lost works, broken walls and bad omens.
- The township as myth-engine.
Submissions / Contact
Velunia is open to writing, photography, drawing, poetry, music, folklore, local memories and strange observations connected to Bo’ness, Kinneil, the Inner Forth and nearby places.
More submission details will appear here once the first issue takes proper shape.