Karen Justl
By Karen Justl Karen Justl is an illustrator who is fascinated by the neuroscience of facial expression and emotion. She holds […]
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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Faded
By M.E. Purfield Itched. Scratched. Coughed. Ignored. *** Walked. Sat. Met. Drank. Commiserated. Laughed. Ate. Related. Drank. Induced. Laughed. Laughed. Fell. […]
Fake Leather Boots, By Sam Stilson
By Sam Stilson Some nights, when Chuck was bored, and it was too hot to sleep in his little bachelor apartment, […]
Tiger Prince
By Dana Snell It was my friend John’s birthday. John was also my neighbour, and lived upstairs. His girlfriend had wanted […]
Krakow Melt
By Daniel Allen Cox Nowa Huta Kraków is crows. Big, floppy ones. I don’t live in the city centre but in […]
Three Girls
By Hyein Lee Hyein Lee was an engineer who didn’t like her job. She gave up her big fat pay cheque […]
Supervillains
By Natalie Zina Walschots Joker cleverness a cleaver slit tine grin serrated rape trap teeth maestro voice box a soup […]
A Tale of Two Distros
By Alex Gurnham One’s from out west, the other resides in Southern Ontario. One lives its life online while the other […]
Building Literary Ground
By Sara Ritchie Let’s face it, in the age of ebooks and blogs, publishers of handmade short run chapbooks are an […]
Introducing Fantasy Camp
By Nathaniel G. Moore The going rate for a typical zine these days is still well under the $10 mark. But […]
Bridgetown Records
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Art Around Every Corner
By Lindsay Gibb For 10 years Buffalo zinester and artist, Christopher Fritton, has been hiding art and sending friends to find […]