Small Press Virus Check-in #3: Now or Never Publishing
Independent publishers have been hard-pressed these past few months. Closed bookstores, little media attention, a distracted public, Amazon’s new hostility […]
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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All fat futures: Five questions about the body with prettyboycrybaby
“I don’t see nature and technology as being at odds with each other. In the universe I have created in […]
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RIPPLE / CHIMERA
RIPPLE “It’s over,” Steve says. I think I hear a sigh on the other end of the line. Then silence. […]
Small Press Virus Check-in #2: Invisible Press
Independent publishers have been hard-pressed these past four months. Closed bookstores, little media attention, a distracted public, Amazon’s new hostility […]
Fiction: A Flight of Planetary Fancy
Bats slammed into lockers, cleats scraped the floor, and frothy spittle stained the walls. An influx of uniformed combatants filed […]
Small Press Virus Check-in #1: Coach House Books
Independent publishers have been hard-pressed these past four months. Closed bookstores, little media attention, a distracted public, Amazon’s new hostility […]
Small Press Virus Check-in
Independent publishers have been hard-pressed these past four months. Closed bookstores, little media attention, a distracted public, Amazon’s new hostility […]
Zine Philosophy: Zines Across Prison Walls
The prison system relies on the default assumption that our collective safety hinges on exiling certain people from society and […]
Exposure Unit: What makes a zine a zine?
A column about navigating the zine scene by Toronto-based zinester Rabeea Syed Have you ever found yourself folding and stapling […]