Reckoning
By Salvatore Difalco He saw himself tented, with a little plastic window. Inside there, looking out. He saw the talking […]
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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Recipe for Disaster
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An Army of Shy
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Letter From the Editor
By Jay Ruttenberg Here’s one thing you probably never thought of: Let’s say you are walking down the street and […]
Your Rotten, Truth Spouting Face
By Tom Fennario You asked, and it was true that I had been drinking. In fact just about everything you […]
TRADE: Queer Things (1999-2006)
By Dawn Parish It’s with great sadness and a heavy heart that BP announces the passing of the indie queer […]
The Fat Femme Mafia
By Zoe Whittall If you’ve been to a west-end bar bathroom in Toronto lately you may have noticed the words […]
Living off the City
By Josh Hume If you want to know where to get free food and drink in your city, just ask […]
Art That Won’t Be Boxed In
Outsider Art in a Box By Holland Gidney Had you stumbled sleepily into the tiny gallery/closet half-hidden at the back […]
Good Gentrified Grub
By David Silverberg I’m eating farm-fresh food on the second floor of a hipster boutique hotel in Toronto’s Parkdale district. […]
Film and Video Arts Society of Alberta
By Scott Lingley One warm night this summer, a gaggle of diverse artists converged on Edmonton’s Sir Winston Churchill Square […]