Zines Are Dead
Zines Are Dead By Chris Yorke Body: Let us remember the whole of Zinehood as a single, lovely flower, and […]
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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Why Publish?
Why Publish? By Robert Runté If you ask a university professor why they write, once you cut through the usual […]
T.V’s Not Evil. I Am.
T.V’s Not Evil. I Am. By Wenj Puzzling t.v. rant accompanied by unrelated photo (or am I a culture fascist/elitist?). […]
The Cheerleader
The Cheerleader By Claire Batler So I moved to Seattle because I wanted to rock, I mean really rock, none of […]
Canuxploitation!
Canuxploitation! By Paul Corupe If you’ve ever caught a late night TV movie, you’ve probably seen some startling images. Young women […]
Book Launch: Broken Pencil presents Tamara Faith Berger and Daniel Allen Cox with Derek M. Lowes
Arsenal Pulp Press, Broken Pencil, Coach House Books and Type Books present an evening of ‘dangerous literature’ at Supermarket on […]
Friday Round-Up: Found on the Internet
The LA blog Sunandglory does a step-by-step post on how to turn olds mags into pretty envelopes with a bit […]
Ottawa, 1995: The End of Winter
By Jeremy Milks It was the end of winter in Ottawa, 1995, and I was still young then and living […]
Burning down the house: Rufus meets Dan
Introduction Despite an intense campaign by local queer business groups, Vancouver is still a repressed and prohibition-minded town. The few […]
From Ganagoque to Norway: Greg Watson’s Orange Alabaster Mushroom Psychs Out Europe
An isolated farmhouse somewhere between Kingston and Gananoque, Ontario, is home to probably the only neo-psychedelic music guru working in […]
An Unlikely Bard
If this were played on a stage now,/I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. -William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Stratford […]