Broken Pencil and Joyland Reading Night This Thursday
Arsenal Pulp, Joyland and Broken Pencil present Kevin Chong, Hal Niedzviecki, Kathryn Mockler at Type Books, 883 Queen Street West […]
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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International Press Watch
EXAMINING SMALL PRESSES OUTSIDE OF CANADA This issue, our correspondent visits the zany and enterprising duo behind Chicago’s FEATHERPROOF BOOKS […]
Friday’s Internet Round-up: Found this Week
Just like we have a weekly round-up of indie events each Monday, we’re now introducing a end-of-week round-up of things […]
Zine Philosophy
This summer the Purple Thistle Centre — a youth-run community centre for arts and activism in Vancouver — hosted a […]
Poetry in the Streets: The Spontaneous Prose Store
Walking down the street you pass a young woman seated at a typewriter, tapping away. You stop to look and […]
Indie Events: October 24 – 30
This week’s events are going up a little late, due to Canzine craziness, but better late than never…right? TORONTO Oct. […]
Function Magazine to hold zine launch
Function Magazine is an annual arts and culture publication produced by graduating students in the School of Image Arts at […]
Thank You! And See Y’all Next Year…
For the Broken Pencil staff and volunteers, the last week has been a whirlwind of late-night emails, tweaking of excel […]
CANZINE TODAY!
We’ve bludgeoned you with countless Canzine profiles and updates, but today it’s all worth it! Canzine is today! There are […]
The Luddite’s Guide to 3D Printing
What’s the big brouhaha over 3D printing? Broken Pencil explores the fun (and obstacles) of the medium Media love to […]
Canzine Portraits: Eunice Luk
Meet Eunice Luk, a Toronto-based artist, tabling at this year’s Toronto Canzine, whose work extends across many platforms under the […]
Canzine Toronto Update
Update: Only three more sleeps til Canzine Toronto! More UPDATES! Trash Palace presents the “Mental Hygiene” educational film room. Featuring […]