Zoe Whittall
By Shannon Webb-Campbell Rugby made poet Tanya Davis gay. Anne-Marie MacDonald fell on her knees. Anna Camilleri became a red […]
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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E-Publishers
The future of printed matter is looking more and more like a computer screen, but that doesn’t necessarily mean progress […]
The Bloody Matriarch
Visual and performance artist Jesika Joy opens up about spirituality, feminism, dead animals and their relationship to her work By […]
Conceptualizing Theories In Motion
By Sam Sutherland Driven into the ground by the excess of 70s prog-rock (a grim reminder that God still hates […]
Mariko Tamaki Shows Some Skim
The author bares all in her new graphic novel By Erin Kobayashi Looking at writer Mariko Tamaki is like staring […]
Wey-hey and Up She Rises
Land-locked prairie poets bring the sea to the heartland By Andrew Wedderburn Booty, a collaborative pirate burlesque performance poem by […]
The Coolest Small Presses You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of
By Richard Rosenbaum In the world of small presses, some are smaller than others; but that just means there’s room […]
Autobiographic
Graphic novels often moonlight as memoirs. David Silverberg investigates why this is, and whether it makes for compelling reading or […]
