About

A QUICK TOUR OF THE FACTORY:
Crime Factory was first launched in 2000 by Melbourne-based editor David Honeybone. Over the course of nine issues, the print-only hardboiled/noir magazine was sold by subscription all over the world and could be also found in select indie bookshops. Honeybone pulled the plug in 2003 and the Factory gathered dust until 2010, when original CF contributor and Honeybone-conspirator Cameron Ashley, along with Liam José and Keith Rawson, relaunched the zine as an online PDF, before moving into e-reader formats and print on demand.

A fight noir special, Kung–Fu Factory, was put together last March and proved to be so popular that differently-themed special issues will be also forthcoming. In September 2011, an all-fiction anthology Crime Factory: The First Shift was launched, published by New Pulp Press.

In late 2011, Rawson stepped down and contributors Andrew Nette and Jimmy Callaway stepped up and, with the spectre of Honeybone looming large, this crew moved to these bigger, fancier cyber-digs.  With the help of an armada of talented contributors (from the freshest face on the scene to the most grizzled of noir vets) Crime Factory is expanding in ways unforeseen just a year ago and remains more committed than ever to bringing you the finest in uncompromising  dark fiction, features, interviews and reviews in a multitude of formats. All back issues of volume 2 will eventually be able to be read however you choose, and a limited stock of the groundbreaking 2000-2003 print-only run is also available for purchase directly from us.

A number of special projects are coming together for the next two years, so stick with us, we’re just getting warmed up.

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You can contact us at: crimefactoryzine@gmail.com