Enter the Staple Stanley Contest!
Put your creativity to the test with Broken Pencil‘s Staple Stanley Contest! Who’s Staple Stanley, you ask? Why he’s this […]
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Zinester Joey Clift asks his artist mom how she does it
The Smell of Our Own is a column where artists interview, or are interviewed by, family members. In this edition, […]
A Bread Factory director Patrick Wang on the promises and pitfalls of community arts
Broken Pencil is proud to present a screening of A Bread Factory this Friday March 1st at 7pm at the […]
Deathmatch 2019 is done! And the winner is… Charlotte Joyce Kidd.
WE HAVE A WINNER! You hyped. You trash-talked. You voted. Story was pitted against story. Blood was shed and […]
What The Film Festival Returns!
For the second year in a row, Broken Pencil is sponsoring the one-of-a-kind, too-weird-for-TIFF underground film extravaganza, the What the […]
F*ck 45: 10 Zines Talking Back to Trump
For the past 17 years, I’ve worked at Quimby’s Bookstore here in Chicago, which sells zines, mini-comics, and books. We’ve […]
Zine Philosophy: Community Zines as a Response to Exclusion
The Downtown Eastside Women’s Art Collective (DEWAC) is a volunteer-run, arts-based organization that serves trans and cis women, two-spirit, and […]
Deathmatch 2019 Prize: $$$ and the Ultimate Literary Makeover
Broken Pencil‘s annual Deathmatch is back and open for short story submissions. This year, the winner gets: Their story published in Broken Pencil: the […]
Seven Stories Founder Dan Simon to Give Advice As Part of Deathmatch Prize
He’s worked with the likes of Kurt Vonnegut, Octavia E. Butler, and Noam Chomsky. And now, if you win the Deathmatch […]
Two Weeks Left to Enter the Deathmatch Short Story Contest!
Ooooh Gary…. Two weeks left to enter the Deathmatch.
Deathmatch Guest Judge: Author Victoria Hetherington
Toronto-based writer Victoria Hetherington will be a guest judge for this year’s Deathmatch Indie Writer’s Short Story Contest! She’ll help […]
Soviet Zines Live On!
When Mark Yoffe was a teenager in Soviet-controlled Riga, Latvia, everything looked ridiculous. As he tells it, both the Soviet […]