I’ve been a fan of Broken Pencil’s short story section since I first peeled open the magazine way back when I was an undergrad. The subversive, against-the-grain aesthetic, the idiosyncratic voices of the first-time-in-print and seasoned rebels, the willingness to push the boundaries toward kink and weirdness – this is why I kept coming back as a reader. As a writer, I wanted to be in the magazine, and got my wish in 2011 when my story Free Therapy was selected to compete in the Indie Writers Deathmatch. After vomiting from stress and arguing my lungs out in defense of the story, I ended up in second place – high enough to see my name in print. In 2012, I became an Associate Fiction Editor. Now, I’m leading the fiction department.
In spite of our mandate to publish the unpublishable, there are still many ideas we haven’t explored. There are still writers in the margins who we haven’t found a place for. So Broken Pencil’s fiction department is expanding. We’re bringing in new editors, with tastes that cover all aspects of indie creative action. We’re going to cultivate new outlets to bring you more content. We’re going to read faster to give writers a quick turnover.
So if you write fiction that stands against the norm in publishing, we want to read it. Click here to submit it.
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We’re super stoked to have Colin on board as we reimagine what our fiction section can look like. Feel free to email him at [email protected]
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