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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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Latest Posts

Indie Events: December 27- Jan 6

Hal Niedzviecki (Moderator)

NYE black-out rages aside, check out our indie events happening this week, from drawing circles to naughty spelling bees. Toronto […]

Indie Events: December 22-29

Hal Niedzviecki (Moderator)

Check out sexy spelling bees, writing groups and poetry slams across Canada during the busiest holiday week of the year. […]

How to Write Eunoia

Hal Niedzviecki (Moderator)

By: Christian Bok Step 1: Acquire a dictionary (preferably the Webster’s Third International Unabridged in three volumes–since it contains the […]

Luck House

Hal Niedzviecki (Moderator)

By: Una Lee “What’s this?” He stabs the laminated menu with a finger the size and shape of a fat […]

The Cedar Surf

Hal Niedzviecki (Moderator)

By: Grant Shilling As we drive Highway 14 north from Victoria on the west side of Vancouver Island, toward the […]

Criminal Cinema

Hal Niedzviecki (Moderator)

By: Rachel Sanders The concept was a hipster’s wet dream. The Criminal Cinema: edgy, underground films screened on the weekends […]

Until the Next War

Hal Niedzviecki (Moderator)

By: Kara Sievewright Once upon a time, far away in a little country called Slovenia, a country lost in the […]