Coffee People Zine Exclusively Features Black Creators

Stock photo by Tyler Nix

Coffee People Zine will release its 10th issue on Tuesday, September 22. This issue features work exclusively by Black artists in and around the coffee industry, including a hired Executive Editor, Korie Pickett (KP).

Black creators from around the world have sent in art, poetry, short stories, photography, paintings, illustrations, and other work in a collection that showcases their unique experiences, multi-dimensionality as people, and their brilliance as creators and coffee professionals.

This is the first time that Coffee People Zine will pay contributors. Additionally, Coffee People Zine will make $0 from the sales of this issue; all sales revenue will be paid to the Black contributors of this issue, as well as two charities KP has chosen that support Black communities: The Bail Project and The Okra Project. 

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Can you BELIEVE this beautiful cover? I’m speechless. That look, those beans, the colors… It is perfection.⁠ Photo by Issue 10 Executive Editor @hoosierqueenkp KP. ⁠ ⁠ Check our IGTV for a little interview between Founder Kat and Exec Editor KP to learn a little more behind this image, behind-the-scenes info about putting this issue together, and how we’re paying artists for their work in this issue.⁠ ⁠ And get ready – there’s just ONE WEEK till the release of CPZ Issue 10.⁠ Pre-Orders available now (link in bio).⁠ ***All September revenue from sales will go to the artists of Issue 10. Your purchase of the zine pays Black creatives for their work in this issue! Sales after Oct 1 will go to @bailproject and @theokraproject ***

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All Issue 10 subscriptions and sales through the month of September will be divided among the artists (with a minimum of $50/artist). Sales from October 1 onward will go to the nonprofits. Subscriptions and pre-orders are available now at coffeepeople.org. 

Issue 10 features Black-owned coffee businesses: Cxffeeblack (Memphis, TN), Deadstock (Portland, OR), Bloom & Plume (Los Angeles, CA), Everybody’s Busy (Chicago, IL), Cam’s Coffee Creations (Winston-Salem, SC), and Hogg Batch (St Petersburg, FL). The featured Black-run coffee organizations include: Getchu Some Gear, Go Fund Bean, #BlackInBrew (@BaristaLifeLA), Coffee & Tax, Coffee Feed PDX, and Barista Coalition.