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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
Up your zine game with… The Zine Game!
Have you ever thought to yourself, “I wish I could zine harder.” Like, making zines just isn’t enough anymore. I […]
(Re)-introducing our second judge for the Zine Awards 2020: Billy McCall
Four years in, it’s becoming a fun and generative tradition to invite the Overall Zine winner from the previous year […]
Online Exclusive Fiction: An Independent Investigation Concerning the Incident of Inserting
The investigation concluded that such a misstep could only occur due to a bizarre combination of factors. Firstly, it originated with one […]
Announcing the final five COVID Zine Micro-Grantees
When Broken Pencil launched the COVID Zine Micro Grant mere weeks ago, we hoped that we could make a difference […]