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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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Latest Reviews

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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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 […]

Helem

Maria Cichosz

Helem Stanley Wany, Conundrum Press Our innermost lives — our dreams, paranoias, fantasies, and nightmares — take place beyond language. […]

BP Zine Awards Nominees 2021

Jonathan Valelly

Congratulations to our finalists in the 2021 Broken Pencil Zine Awards! Our guest judges are currently diving into this incredible […]

Virtual Canzine 2021 Programming

Lisa Lam

Running Friday October 22nd to Monday October 25th! Virtual Canzine 2021 offers not only amazing vendors selling zines, comics, and […]

Sleeping With Humanity

O.G. Rose

Sleeping With Humanity by O.G. Rose   Listen, for God’s sake! Now, like I was saying, first Wall Street crashed, […]