Indie Events: April 28 – May 4
Geordie Miller’s debut collection Re:union (Invisible Publishing) launches this Tuesday in Toronto. Tuesday April 29 MONTREAL Four Minutes to Midnight […]
TOOLKIT: How to Save Your Books From Flooding
On New Years Eve, Silver Sprocket rang things in on a damp note. Their HQ was slammed by historic rain. Here's how the radical publisher spared their stock from the flood.
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."
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.
Introducing Broken Pencil 103: Cruel to be Kind
There are brighter days underground. Our latest issue features Cruelty Squad creator and Finnish artist Ville Kallio speaking about the anticipated follow-up to his unlikely hit and giving video games an overdue shock to their system.
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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Found on the Internet – HOLY CRAP IT’S SORT OF SPRING
Image source: Gorogoa by Jason Roberts I mean, kind of! The weather’s actually not so bad! Even better, after the […]
In Memoriam: Crad Kilodney (1948 – 2014)
Photo from cradkilodney.com One of Canada’s great DIY underground publishing heroes (or anti-heroes, depending on your viewpoint) Crad Kilodney passed […]
Poetry Bombing Ottawa
With the sharp peaks of the Parliament buildings to the east, I hurried towards Lower Town in search of […]
Sonnets & Free Verse on Barf-Bags
The hardest thing about turning an airsickness bag into a book of poetry is getting through the plastic lining at […]
Indie Events: April 21 – April 27
Rae Spoon and Ivan Coyote continue their Gender Failure launch tour this week. Monday April 21 TORONTO Queer Fear: Elvira, […]
Found on the Internet – Slice of Life Edition
Enough with the grandiose. Let’s get back to a life of domesticity. Today’s roundup is all about the simple things. […]
Building a Poem through Calgary
From the northwest neighborhood of Mount Pleasant, I walk to Kensington. Dust recently freed from ice and snow gets into […]
We Love You, Lindsay Gibb
Dear Readers, On behalf of the staff of Broken Pencil, I wanted to share a major staffing announcement: our […]
In the Beginning Was the Crow and the Trench Coat
artwork by Graham Blair Poet Kevin Spenst is traveling across Canada, performing his work at over 100 venues from Victoria […]
Indie Events: April 14 – April 20
Monday April 14 TORONTO Heels on Wheels, 7pm, The Tranzac, 292 Brunswick, $7-$15 The Heels on Wheels Glitter Roadshow […]