The printed heart of Velunia

The Magazine

The printed zine is the heart of Velunia: irregular, handmade, atmospheric and assembled from essays, fragments, images, reviews, poems, field notes and strange local findings.

It exists because some things deserve to be held in the hand. Not everything should become content, scroll past, vanish and be replaced by the next thing.

Issue One

Issue one is currently being assembled. It will gather the first proper fragments of Velunia: local history, folklore, heavy music, industrial memory, ruins, water, poetry and myth.

The aim is not perfection. The aim is atmosphere, curiosity, seriousness, roughness and a sense that the past is still making demands of the present.

Regular Sections

Towers

Music reviews from the edges of dungeon synth, black metal, dark ambient, folk horror and ruined soundscapes.

Field

Notes from walks, ruins, woods, shorelines, monuments, graveyards and forgotten industrial places.

Crypts

Myths, legends, hauntings, monsters, invented histories and old local fears.

Bodotria

Writing on the Forth, the estuary, ancient water, industrial shorelines and river memory.

Submissions

Velunia is open to writing, photography, drawing, poetry, local history, folklore, music and strange observations connected to Bo’ness, Kinneil, the Inner Forth and nearby places.

The tone should be curious, atmospheric and specific. Local detail matters. Rough edges are welcome. Empty nostalgia is not.