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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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Review: Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There

The human brain and its capacity to love have never been simple. Jade Wallace’s poetry incites a lot of introspection into how we are connected to our environments in intimate ways, but not necessarily made loving by them.

Review: Feminism for a Genderqueer Generation

The way Melendez mixes theory with personal anecdotes is a graceful way to deliver intellectual critique with relatable humour. This is a strong, accessible read that even someone who might be hearing about “agender” for the first time can understand.

Review: People Collide

Unfolding like a thriller, People Collide is as much about marriage and what draws people together (and apart) as it is about gender or art.
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2021 Annual Indie Book Picks

Broken Pencil

BROKEN PENCIL PRESENTS OUR ANNUAL INDIE BOOK PICS: the best of the Fall and holiday reading season GRAPHICA Helem Stanley […]

Deep Sniff

Jonathan Valelly

  Deep Sniff Adam Zmith, Repeater Books Blue Boy. Locker Room. Pig Sweat. Rush. If these names don’t mean anything […]

The Breaks

Parker Ducharme

  The Breaks Julietta Singh, Coach House Books The Breaks is a touching epistolary love song addressed to the writer’s […]

A Small Homecoming

Adel Franklyn

  A Small Homecoming Furqan Mohamed, Party Trick Press The poems of A Small Homecoming are capsules of culture and […]

Uncommon Sense: An Autistic Memoir

Parker Ducharme

  Uncommon Sense: An Autistic Memoir Adam Mardero Latitude 46 Publishing This memoir begins with the moment that Adam Mardero […]

Gold Pours

Adel Franklyn

  Gold Pours Aurore Gatwenzi, Latitude 46 Publishing Casual, abstract, and sometimes heartbreaking, bleeding from the depths, Aurore Gatwenzi challenges […]

The Pump

Hal Niedzviecki (Moderator)

  The Pump Sydney Warner Brooman, Invisible Publishing You can’t drink the tap water in the small city imagined by […]

Water Proof

Hal Niedzviecki (Moderator)

  Water Proof Aaron Bushkowsky, Cormorant Press In remote Desolation Sound, a small ripple of the BC coastline, Andy is […]

Shame, Shame, Go Away

Jonathan Valelly

  Shame, Shame, Go Away Jess MacCormack, Self-published Some nightmares are real because they actually happen. These become a part […]