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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

Attn: Technophobes!

Laura Trethewey

For those still resisting/actively hating all things social media and the internet, check out these fun literary Twitter accounts that […]

Questionnaire with Pop Sandbox

Lindsay

With only a few days left before the Small Press of Toronto’s Spring Fair, where an ensemble of small presses, […]

Field Guide to Kleptoparasitism

Lindsay

Indie Writers’ Deathmatch IV Runner-Up By Braydon Beaulieu I stole my neighbour’s newspaper this morning. He has never noticed my […]

Brink

Lindsay

Indie Writers’ Deathmatch IV Winner by David Griffin Brown “It’s your baby too,” Lily said. “It’s only fair you help […]

Zine Philosophy

Hal Niedzviecki (Moderator)

By Buffy Goodman In hindsight, it’s probably a good thing 1-800-FUCKWIT never saw the light of day. I think I […]

Deleted Zines

Nathaniel G Moore

Digging the dirt on ex-zinesters By Nathaniel G. Moore Deleted in this issue: Edmonton’s Mark McCawley and, more specifically, Urban […]

Editor’s Note

Hal Niedzviecki (Moderator)

By Lindsay Gibb I love perzines. I have a fondness for blogs. I tend to frequent the biography section of […]