Goldstein on Goldstein
Springtime for Goldstein By Heather O’Neill Outside it is spring, but inside the house all the umbrellas are broken and […]
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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Junk Diary
By John McCurley John McCurley dropped out of the Ontario College of Art to write psychedelic plays full time. He […]
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Inexorable
By Greg Shupak There was a rumour that I was dead. Actually, I survived. *** “Oh my God! Oh I’m […]
The Napoleon Difference
By Julia Campbell-Such Bone splinters, pure-white like expensive china. Smell of talcum powder, morphine, sterilizers. Cracking, splitting, sawing. Tired and […]
The Turtle Neck Blues Boy
The Turtle Neck Blues Boy By Jesse Jacobs Excerpted from Lucky Comics #4
I Love You
By Sharon Harris Excerpted from I Love You Toronto, [email protected]
Password Protection
By K.T. Tillman I read my ex-boyfriend’s fiancée’s online journal. It’s password-protected, but I can still read it because I […]
Old Weird America
By Rose White Ghosts (Tom) August 2004 When I first met Tom, the only instructions I got were, “Don’t mention […]
Artists Crack the Game Code
By Erin Bell There’s no better sign that something has successfully seeped into the social consciousness than when people start […]
Spartacus Books Rises from the Ashes
By McKinley M. Hellenes Spartacus Books, Canada’s oldest collectively-run radical bookstore, was established in the early ’70s as a book-buying […]
The 48 Hour Film
By Josh Hume Imagine having only 48 hours to make a short film without being able to plan it. You […]