Feature: Soundbites from the Funhouse
Feature: Soundbites from the Funhouse Six creative types reveal what makes them laugh By Nathaniel G. Moore Elyse Friedman: “I once […]
Winners of the Broken Pencil Zine Awards 2022
Congratulations to our Broken Pencil Zine Awards 2022 winners! Shop Winners & Nominees Best Art Zine 2022: Round Trip by […]
Maximillian Alvarez on The Work of Living, COVID and The Unfathomable Loss of One Million Lives
"How can we quantify all that’s been stolen from us? How can we forgive the failures of our governments and our economic system whose callousness, greed, and jingoistic competitiveness made this all so much worse than it could have been?"
Review: Len & Cub: A Queer History
The result of painstaking research stretching through New Brunswick, Maine, Quebec, and Vermont, this early century chronicle of queer Canadians is a labour of love.
Review: SCRIED FUNDAMENTS
Bent by the crystal ball we’re peering into as much as by the off-kilter discourse of the person who’s speaking, MLA Chernoff's SCRIED FUNDAMENTS is is attention-grabbing, clever and regularly baffling.
Introducing Our Fall Horror Issue: Bloody Bits
The twisting of bone. The teasing of flesh. Gretchen Felker-Martin, the author responsible for Manhunt, finds reprieve in gore. How could we resist putting her on the cover of our horror issue?
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Feature: That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
Feature: That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore There was a time when comedy was challenging and it took people out of […]
If You Can Find it
By Liz Worth Hamilton proto-punks Simply Saucer are often cited as southern Ontario’s answer to the Velvet Underground. Their cult following […]
Black Bile is Anything but Precious
By Spencer Gordon Bored by the upper middle class, educated anxieties endlessly detailed in our major literary journals? Tired of bloodless, […]
Brave New Writing Workshops
By Brooke Ford If the feeling of disappointment over the closure of certain indie retailers is sitting heavily, if the news […]
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 […]
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
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Cut and Paste Fish Sticks
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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 […]