200 x 260 mm, 64 pages

Glasgow, Scotland

As and when

Published since 2025

Editor-in-chief: Alex Ralston

Design: Molly Cooper and Calum Herbert

‘The water’s fine!’

A new publication hailing from Glasgow, self-effacing yet punchy Piscine exists to nurture contemporary underground culture and showcase new work from emerging writers and artists. Having curbed the name ‘Piss Scene’, its ambition is matched by its character, as their editorial declares: ‘The next issue might be a paper boat floating down the Clyde.’

This first edition—devoted to labour—is partly informed by the experience of a six-person editorial team, all of whom work full-time jobs in hospitality. Its bold yellow cover features a chain of small-print correspondence pertaining to the magazine’s many edits.

Inside, front-of-house phenomenon Alex Ralston recounts the plight of a particularly tumultuous evening on shift, artist Briony Godivala retrospectively examines how her bar job informed and partly defined her year-long performance ‘The Inked Link’, and Mack Young delivers a pithy timestamped chronicle of a loathsome kitchen shift.

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