The Broken Pencil Zine Awards 2022 Submission Showcase: Week 3
Another week, another roundup! Each week until the final week of submissions, BP randomly selects three Zine Award hopefuls. This […]
It Was Fun Until It Wasn’t: Broken Pencil, 1995-2024
It is with profound sadness that I announce the closure of Broken Pencil Magazine, an independent publication I co-founded 30 […]
BP is Closed, But You Can Still Access Our Archives
Dear friends, Broken Pencil’s fabulous thirty year run has concluded. But we are going to keep our website and archives […]
Review: Nothing Without Us Too
With many of these speculative stories rooted in sci-fi, the line between reality and metaphor nearly disappears, playing with a reader’s inability to clearly differentiate between fact and fiction when it comes to the realities of disability.
Review: Beat The Rust
Life doesn’t unfold in a neat narrative, neither does Kelly Fruh's brief, deft, illustrated vignettes.
Poster Boy: Dril On Art, Philosophy, Life Beyond Twitter, All That Garbage
"People will beg for AI-free content like they do for water that isn’t tainted with lead. And when AI becomes synonymous with ‘Shit,’ it will die like every other Silicon Valley Clown Show and nobody will miss it."
Call for Submissions: Urban Legends
Overview “Urban Legends” is a compilation zine about urban legends, local myths, and folklore. Share your writing or art that’s […]
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I Am Not Lonely for I Have a Television
I Am Not Lonely for I Have a Television Perzine, The Depressed Waitress, 42 pgs, thedepressedwaitress.com, $10 The end of […]
Behind the Drywall
Behind the Drywall Artzine, Nikki Reimer & Andrea Mackenzie Engele, 20 pgs, Gytha Press, gythapress.org,$9.25 A striking, symmetrical Art Deco-inspired […]
Zine Awards 2021 Infozine of the Year: Tracing Chinatown by Charmain Wong
Tracing Chinatown follows a select narrative of Toronto’s Chinatown West through a colourfully illustrated, place-based lens. It examines the changing […]
Here’s Juror Number Two in the 2022 Zine Awards!
Do you hear that wonderful sound? That harmonious noise? Why, that must be the 2022 Broken Pencil Zine Awards… and […]
The Broken Pencil Zine Awards 2022 Submission Showcase: Week 2
We’re back with another week of our submission showcase! All zines were randomly selected from the pool of Zine Awards […]
Cute Nose #1
Rotem Anna Diamant, 28 pgs,@rotemannadiamant, etsy.com/ca/shop/MonsterMaidenZines, $5 “I can’t get out of the tub,” laments the main figure of Cute […]
The Wild (Mis)adventures of a Queer Kinkster #1
Sage Pantony, 56 pgs, sagepantony.com, $7 Sex stories are like dreams, in that their recounting is usually much more exciting […]
The Broken Pencil 2022 Zine Awards Submissions Showcase
It’s that time of year again! The Broken Pencil Zine Awards is open for submissions. Over the next few weeks, […]
Meet the First Juror in the 2022 Zine Awards!
The 2022 Broken Pencil Zine Awards are gearing up! Since 2017 we have been celebrating the best of zines, across […]
Online Exclusive Fiction: The Drum
The Drum by Taaha Ali The individual dwellings were scattered about and incredibly rudimentary, forming a village. The women were […]
Sleemor Gank – Burg Land 1
Attempting to describe the first issue of Burg Landin a capsule review isa steep order, but I’ll give it a […]