International Short Story Day – New Fiction
Today is International Short Story Day – the first International Short Story Day – appropriately timed, as tonight is going […]
The BP Fall Bundle Sale is On Now
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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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One on One
By ML West The last time I saw Trisha we were supposed to get together for some noose-play. The format […]
Anything is Plausible at The Academy of the Impossible
In 2008, author (A Girl Named Sugar) and former Broken Pencil editor Emily Pohl-Weary put out a call to youths […]
Indie Events: June 18 – 24
TORONTO Wednesday June 20, 8:00-11:00pm, Tightrope Books Spring Launch, Revival Bar, 783 College Samantha Bernstein, David Lee and Royston Tester […]
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Book Landscapes: Canadian interdisciplinary artist Guy Laramee has seemingly done it all, from composing operas to building complex installations. All […]
SNOBALTIMORE
The Baltimore Snoball Collective (Katie Lambright, Bruce Blume and Sara Tomko) seeks to solidify the community surrounding Baltimore’s summer snoball […]
Indie Events: June 11 – 17
TORONTO Wednesday June 13, 5:00-9;00pm, Of a Kind and Static Zine NXNE Kick-Off, Of a Kind Vintage, 1037 College Street, […]
Found On The Internet
VanCAF Roundup: Vancouver hosted its first-ever Comic Arts Festival (VanCAF) this past weekend, and by all accounts the two-day event […]
Introducing Broken Pencil’s new Assistant Editor
As I explained in my editorial in the current issue of Broken Pencil, after a year in the Assistant Editor […]
The Work of Emma Healey
A Young Poet Comes of Age When I first met Emma Healey over Skype this past winter, she had been […]
Indie Events: June 4 – 10th
MONTREAL Wednesday June 6, 9:30pm – 12:30am, Strip Spelling Bee: Revolution Edition, MainLine Theatre, 3997 boul. Saint-Laurent, $10 + $2 […]