Publishing gets Mobile with Microcosm’s Zine Trike
By Sara Ritchie In a digital world, when print feels like it is going the way of the dinosaur, Microcosm […]
Food zinesters hunger for more taste in writing
Immigrant kids will know this one well. You’re at school and it’s finally time for lunch. Brown paper bags crinkle, […]
Introducing Our Spring Issue: The Big Quit!!!
Exploited and exhausted, modern labourers are seeking a new possibility in the world of work: no work at all. In […]
Bitch Magazine Ends
On April 12, Bitch Media, the digital enterprise born out of the Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture zine, announced […]
Zine Awards 2021 Artzine of the Year: Diaspora Daughter/Diaspora Dyke by Christina Hajjar
This zine collects photography, poetry, and performance and objects to contend with intergenerational inheritance, personal histories, pleasure, loss, love, and […]
About the Zine Awards
Founded in 2017, Broken Pencil Zine Awards celebrates excellence in independent, underground zine making and micro-printing! Since its inception in […]
Call for Submissions: Gypsophila
Gypsophila: Saudade Submissions Writing (poetry and prose) as well as illustration and collage and other multimedia. Multiple pieces can be […]
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For the Love of a Good Beard
By Grace Evans Rosemary Travale likes to draw things that make her laugh. The Hamilton, Ontario-based artist, participating in this year’s […]
Interview: Ken Sparling
A BP online exclusive By Brooke Ford Ken Sparling, author of self-publishedHush Up and Listen Stinky Poo Butt, For Those Whom […]
Interview: Joey Comeau
A BP online exclusive By Brooke Ford “The literary world, especially regarding headless monstrosities with incomprehensible messages from beyond the grave, […]
Riot on Campus
An analysis of two books on girl culture By Janine Amin Girl Zines: making media doing feminism by Alison Piepmeier, New […]
Cut and Paste Fish Sticks
Brooke Ford follows Rob Kovitz’s frozen odyssey By Brooke Ford “I have imagined a man who might live as the coldest […]
Escaping Sonja Ahlers
Canada’s collage queen hides out in the Yukon and finds her selves By Hal Niedzviecki Sonja Ahlers is currently hiding out […]
I Want My Web TV!
How low-budget online programs are challenging the network fare By David Silverberg Two hardcore metal musicians are spinning hiphop records at […]
The Winter of Art’s Discontent
During a recession, governments both federal and municipal are on the hunt for places to cut costs and the arts […]
Q&A with Emily Pohl-Weary on the Parkdale Street Writers Workshop
This Friday, July 1 at 7pm at the Gladstone Hotel, the Parkdale Street Writers Workshop launches Underground Inspirations, a beautiful […]
Mr. Monitor
Check for weekly episodes of Mr. Monitor at www.brokenpencil.com/mrmonitor throughout the summer.
Editor’s Note
When I was 17 and looking for people to relate to, Broken Pencil was my enlightenment. The first copy of […]