Gnomes, Gays and Greyhounds
By George Ian Thomas His lips kiss the rim of the almost empty water bottle. I sit across the aisle, […]
TOOLKIT: How to Save Your Books From Flooding
On New Years Eve, Silver Sprocket rang things in on a damp note. Their HQ was slammed by historic rain. Here's how the radical publisher spared their stock from the flood.
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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Twenty-Somethings.
By Claire Ferris The other day my buddy Six went into labour. When her water broke, she went nuts and […]
The Vancouver Chronicles: Collage Collage
Meet Erin Boniferro, the owner and operator of Collage Collage (collagecollage.ca) quaint store-cum-classroom on the corner of Fraser and Kingsway […]
Indie Events: January 16 – 23
Toronto’s Dragnet Mag launches issue four, Koyama Press launches new urban exploring book Rivers Forgotten along with poetry readings galore […]
Friday Round-Up: Found on the Internet
Arthreat offers an insightful analysis on the financial crisis facing Halifax’s NSCAD and why this latest funding problem is so […]
Indie Events: January 8-15
Get your knit on for the winter months, dance at a zine fundraiser and hoist your glass to a new […]
Friday Round Up: Found on the Internet
Take a look at this awesome (as in awe-inspiring) round-up of 106 street art pictures from the last year(see above […]
Former Deathmatcher Tells You to Fight for Your Writing!
A successful poet and story-writer outside the ring, McKinley M. Hellenes was an unfortunate knockout victim in a close first […]
Indie Events: January 2-8
Get 2012 started right with readings, writing groups and more. Montreal Jan. 8, SHOCKOPERA/PUNKPOETRY with Danila Botha, Liz Worth, Rick […]
How To Put Out Twenty Issues of Broken Pencil
1. Volunteer at an obscure literary magazine and watch it head into a steady decline you can do nothing about. […]
The Day He Left
By: Dee Rimbaud When he left I was a mix of sad and happy. I was sad because it was […]
A Guide To Common Household Monsters
By: Terri Dustyfluffs: most often found under the bed of sleeping children, Dustyfluffs are actually far from dangerous. They are […]