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Enas Satir Enas Satir is a Sudanese visual artist who currently lives in Toronto. She creates cultural projects revolving around […]
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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Online Exclusive Fiction: Barnie and Me
Barnie and Me The specialist delivers the bad news himself. He looks professional in his white coat, though way […]
Zinesters, we are the radical press: a call to action
Jonathan Valelly For centuries, wherever mass defiance and collective power have swollen up, there has been print. That’s true in […]
Is there a zine scene in Iran? If there is, should we know about it?
I’m willing to bet there’s an underground zine-esque scene in Iran. Call it a gut feeling. No, call it an […]
Your final farewell – or, how to write your own obituary
Nearly a decade of writing obituaries has taught journalist Sarah Ladik a thing or two about what makes for a […]
Death in the Small Press
“I have come close to dying more than once. Incidents range from a happenstance beatdown in a colorado parking lot, […]
2020 Broken Pencil Zine Awards Countdown: Zines Entered So Far
The 2020 BP Zine Awards call for subs deadline is drawing near. Take a look at what we’ve received so […]
How DIY tattoos became my death ritual
A tattoo starts as a wound. It heals, but it won’t disappear. I learned this when my friend Ali was […]
About the Zine Awards
Founded in 2017, Broken Pencil Zine Awards celebrates excellence in independent, underground zine making and micro-printing!
From the editor: Death and I
It’s easy to be fast and loose with big ideas, bold even — that is, until the ground beneath you […]
Daring to do death differently
On a cold Wednesday night, I find myself stationed in front of my laptop screen, eavesdropping on strangers talking about […]
How we use zines to support queers in prison — and how you can, too
The prison system relies on the default assumption that our collective safety hinges on exiling certain people from society and […]