Contact
Advertise
Login
Subscribe

TOOLKIT: How to Save Your Books From Flooding

On New Years Eve, Silver Sprocket rang things in on a damp note. Their HQ was slammed by historic rain. Here's how the radical publisher spared their stock from the flood.

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."

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.

Introducing Broken Pencil 103: Cruel to be Kind

There are brighter days underground. Our latest issue features Cruelty Squad creator and Finnish artist Ville Kallio speaking about the anticipated follow-up to his unlikely hit and giving video games an overdue shock to their system.

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 […]

View all Calls for Submissions

Latest Reviews

Review: Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There

The human brain and its capacity to love have never been simple. Jade Wallace’s poetry incites a lot of introspection into how we are connected to our environments in intimate ways, but not necessarily made loving by them.

Review: Feminism for a Genderqueer Generation

The way Melendez mixes theory with personal anecdotes is a graceful way to deliver intellectual critique with relatable humour. This is a strong, accessible read that even someone who might be hearing about “agender” for the first time can understand.

Review: People Collide

Unfolding like a thriller, People Collide is as much about marriage and what draws people together (and apart) as it is about gender or art.
All Reviews

Latest Posts

The Western Alienation Merit Badge

Broken Pencil

The Western Alienation Merit Badge Nancy Jo Cullen, Wolsak & Wynn It’s Calgary in 1982 and the Federal government’s desire […]

In the Dream House: A Memoir

Broken Pencil

  In the Dream House: A Memoir Carmen Maria Machado, Graywolf Press Whatever the Minneapolis-based Graywolf publishes is worth checking […]

Savage Conversations

Broken Pencil

Savage Conversations LeAnne Howe, Coffee House Press Opiate-using Mary Todd Lincoln struggles with an apparition of a “Savage Indian” who […]

King of Joy

Broken Pencil

King of Joy Richard Chiem, Soft Skull Press This is shaping up to be the breakout book for Seattle-based Chiem, […]

Dakwäkãda Warriors

Broken Pencil

Dakwäkãda Warriors Cole Pauls, Conundrum Press Cole Pauls is on a roll. Hot off a busy year of workshops and […]

Fresh Pack of Smokes

Broken Pencil

Fresh Pack of Smokes Cassandra Blanchard, Nightwood Editions Amidst the overlooked overdose and poverty crises, Cassandra Blanchard’s debut Fresh Pack of […]

Homesick

Broken Pencil

  Homesick Nino Cipri, Dzanc Books Emerging Kansas-based writer and self-described weirdo mixes monsters, zombies, Super Little Dead Girls and […]

Savage Gods

Broken Pencil

Savage Gods Paul Kingsnorth, Two Dollar Radio When Paul Kingsnorth writes a book, we at BP pay attention. Novelist, essayist, ecologist and […]