Haus-A-Rest

A Zine Made by Artists, for the Bold and Brilliant.
We’re here for the makers, the ones who turn the unnoticed into narrative, who spin raw life into jaw-dropping visuals and fearless words. This is a space for the daring, the different, and the deeply authentic.

Each month, we spotlight the unconventional, the unseen, the unfiltered, and the unforgettable. Think rebellious stories, fresh perspectives, and art that doesn’t ask for permission.

Got something stirring inside you?
Our Open Calls are free, for everyone and are your stage. Share your vision, break the mold, and connect with a community that thrives on boundary-pushing brilliance.

Step into the zine. Let’s amplify the voices that refuse to be ignored.

Issue 66

ACCUMULATION

A Curated Collection of Work by Writers and Artists

A Digital Exhibition of Excess, Repetition, and Overflow

Welcome to the ACCUMULATION issue of HAUS-A-REST.
For this edition of our online zine and Instagram gallery, we invited artists and writers from around the world to explore the forces that gather, pile, repeat, and overflow in our lives, materially, emotionally, digitally, and historically.

Accumulation is everywhere: in the objects we keep, the memories we store, the images we scroll past and save without thinking, the routines and patterns we fall into, the work we produce, the traces we leave behind. It can be comforting or crushing, intentional or accidental, a method or a compulsion. It can build meaning or bury it.

This issue collects work that embraces all these tensions.
Here you’ll find pieces that layer textures and words until new forms emerge; works that confront the overwhelm of modern life; intimate archives of personal history; repetitions that become rituals; and meditations on hoarding, memory, digital excess, desire, and decay.

Together, these submissions reveal how accumulation operates not only as a theme, but as a condition of contemporary existence. Through art and text, our contributors show how gathering can become storytelling, how excess becomes pattern, and how the things we cling to, by choice or by instinct, shape the spaces we live in, both physical and internal.

As always, HAUS-A-REST remains a platform for experimental, independent, and boundary-pushing work.
This issue is a testament to the creative energy of artists who transform overwhelm into form, repetition into rhythm, and chaos into meaning.

Enter the issue. Explore the layers.
Welcome to ACCUMULATION.We invite artists and writers to send us works that explore memorabilia in any sense, whether material, emotional, digital, or imagined.  

FOR THE GALLERY AND HERE FOR THE WRITER’S CORNER, AND BLOG News

Introducing the HAUS-A-REST Micro-Residency

A new space for reflection, experimentation, and artistic guidance

Alongside this issue, we’re excited to introduce a new offering from HAUS-A-REST: our Micro-Residency, a small but intentional space for artists, writers, and creative thinkers who want to deepen their practice, expand their ideas, and receive thoughtful guidance along the way.

The residency isn’t tied to a specific location, it’s a flexible, supportive environment shaped around each participant’s needs. Whether you are at the beginning of a project, stuck in the middle, or simply seeking a clearer sense of direction, the micro-residency provides:

• Creative Advice,

• Insight into process, artistic development, and sustaining momentum

• Provocations and exercises to challenge habits, expand methods, and spark new thinking

• Critique sessions that value generosity over hierarchy

• Dialogue and reflection, because sometimes a conversation can unlock more than a month of solitude

• Exposure through the zine and social channels, for our residents who wish to share work in progress

The HAUS-A-REST Micro-Residency is built on the belief that artists don’t always need grand studios, vast budgets, or months away from the world, they often need attention, exchange, and a context in which their ideas can breathe.

In a time of constant accumulation, of information, pressure, expectation, this residency offers a moment to sift, sharpen, and reimagine. It’s a place to sort through your creative overflow, to cultivate clarity, or to find excitement in the mess.

you can apply on our opportunities page.
Stay tuned, stay curious, and keep making.

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*News is now on the blog*

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This month’s feature is Artist

Sophie Hillman

This issue’s resident creatives include our Graphic novel bookworm Mildred Burchette-Vass, critical art writer Michaela Hall, our wordsmith poet Peter Devonald, and our editors and creators Nichola and Jenna

!! Calling Artists & Writers!!

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The next open call for Issue 67 is for photography

“Unseen Perspective”

 HAUS-A-REST is now accepting submissions for our next issue of the online zine and our Instagram gallery. We welcome work in any form—visual art, photography, digital media, collage, sound pieces, video stills, poetry, essays, fragments of text, short fiction, experimental writing, and beyond.

For this open call, we are seeking art and writing that explores this theme links below.

 Follow this link to enter our next free call out …

Feel free to get in touch via the form below with your Ideas & Questions.