2021 Zine Awards Winners Ceremony
To Join the Broken Pencil Zine Awards Winners Ceremony: CLICK HERE Live on Zoom. Starting at 6pm est. […]
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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Broken Pencil Presents the Zinester’s Deathmatch!
For the first time ever, Broken Pencil presents The Zinester’s Deathmatch! Create a cover and storyboard layout […]
2021 Annual Indie Book Picks
BROKEN PENCIL PRESENTS OUR ANNUAL INDIE BOOK PICS: the best of the Fall and holiday reading season GRAPHICA Helem Stanley […]
Deep Sniff
Deep Sniff Adam Zmith, Repeater Books Blue Boy. Locker Room. Pig Sweat. Rush. If these names don’t mean anything […]
The Breaks
The Breaks Julietta Singh, Coach House Books The Breaks is a touching epistolary love song addressed to the writer’s […]
A Small Homecoming
A Small Homecoming Furqan Mohamed, Party Trick Press The poems of A Small Homecoming are capsules of culture and […]
Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body
Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body Megan Milks, The Feminist Press Anyone who grew up in the […]
Uncommon Sense: An Autistic Memoir
Uncommon Sense: An Autistic Memoir Adam Mardero Latitude 46 Publishing This memoir begins with the moment that Adam Mardero […]
Gold Pours
Gold Pours Aurore Gatwenzi, Latitude 46 Publishing Casual, abstract, and sometimes heartbreaking, bleeding from the depths, Aurore Gatwenzi challenges […]