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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Mad Pride
Zinesters challenge stigmas around mental illness one photocopied page at a time Behind every good zine lies a good reason […]
Friday Round-Up: Found on the Internet
A short and sweet round-up of what we read this week, mostly Tumblr because it’s like the hottest and laziest […]
The Neighbour
By Samantha Bernstein He sat and watched the street for hours. Some days there wouldn’t be a single pretty girl. […]
Gnomes, Gays and Greyhounds
By George Ian Thomas His lips kiss the rim of the almost empty water bottle. I sit across the aisle, […]
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 […]