Play by Mail Games
By Hilary Titley Before the days of the internet, committed “gamers” without adversaries would sit and handwrite (handwrite!) long letters […]
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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Islands Fold: An Island for Zine-Makers
By Marc Ngui In 2006 Luke Ramsey and Angela Conley set up Islands Fold, a residency program for artists/ zinesters […]
A Different Kind of Letter Writing Campaign
By Krisztina Kun With letter writing fast becoming an outdated craft, lonely letter writing aficionados in Vancouver have gotten together […]
Gallery in the Attic
By Sarah Evans I have reoccurring dreams about finding secret spaces in my home. I open a closet and find […]
It’s Not Your Fault, Honey
When bands break up, it’s the little ones who suffer most By Josh Hume Divorce is a terrible thing, and […]
Inhabiting the Margins
Young adult fiction embraces subculture By Tara-Michelle Ziniuk Things were different when I became a teenager-in the days of 90210 […]
Online Accessibility
One Switch lets everybody play the game By Mathew Kumar As hard as it is to believe, given the current […]
Geek Sleepover
T.O. Jam’s game developing marathon By Derek Winkler On an early May evening, 36 intrepid computer jockeys have gathered to […]
Nuclear Testing
We asked seven indie artists one question: How has your family influenced your work? By Broken Pencil Heze Douglas Editor […]
Radical Mamas and the Naptime Revolution
By Audrey Gagnon When we think zines we think adolescents and dissatisfied twentysomethings–punks, queer kids, nerds, knitters, Harry Potter […]
Fight Club: The Book You Crew
By Erin Kobayashi hey are the most hated book club on LiveJournal, perhaps the internet. They are notorious for being […]
The Patterns of Jamie Travis’ Filmmaking
By Mathew Kumar Every year around September the Toronto International Film Festival brings us the finest in Canadian independent filmmaking […]