The 2014 Canadian MourningTM Championship Match
by Martyn Bryant The Barbara Era eventually came to a close. Barbara had won The Canadian MourningTM Championship Match every […]
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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Deathmatch Round 2 is Mega Close!
Separated by only ten votes round 2 of the Broken Pencil Deathmatch goes into its final day. It’s been an odd […]
Mid-week, Deathmatch round 2 is all tied up!
Nearing the halfway mark of round two of the Deathmatch and the votes are pouring in. With only 20 votes between […]
Q & A: The Ottawa Zine-Off
poster by Rachel Gray One week from today, a clutch of experienced and first-time zine-makers will descend upon Pressed Cafe […]
Round two of the Indie Writers Deathmatch!
Deathmatch Round 2 We’ve got ourselves another oddball match-up: The Big Everything by James C Strouse vs OH, HERE! By […]
Deathmatch round 1 is over – now lets re-cap and move to round 2!
Deathmatch Round One saw Andrea Wrobel’s “ERASER” take on Suzanne Crone’s “Dent-O’s ‘Taste-O’ the South.” In “ERASER,” Samantha Able chokes […]
The Big Everything
by James C. Strouse It was Take Your Daughter to Work Day and I didn’t have a job so the […]
OH, HERE!
by April Kelly I screwed up. Big time. In my defense, the end of quarter sales figures were about to […]
My Prairie Home – watch it here
As we mentioned previously, the NFB is streaming the documentary on Canadian writer and musician Rae Spoon this coming Sunday […]
Deathmatch Round One hits the Weekend Stretch
We’re entering the weekend of Deathmatch Round One, and so far the scoreboard extremely favours Andrea Wrobel. Her story, about […]
Indie Events: January 20 – 26
It’s cold. Real cold. Warm up with poetry, including a night remembering Al Purdy. Or a pick up a zine […]
The Deathmatch Begins!
Round one of the 2014 Indie Writers Deathmatch has started! Dent-O’s ‘Taste-O’ the South by Suzanne Crane sizes up against Eraser […]