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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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Ways to keep busy while social distancing
Check out this space for regular updates! We’re going to post to this every day with more content featuring ways […]
Q&A: Disability, fairy tales and the magic of all bodies
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space Amanda Leduc, Coach House Women spinning straw into gold, houses made of […]
Triple loop paper ball for chasing away the winter blahs
Cindy Baker OR, HOW ART THERAPY TAUGHT ME THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DO IT YOURSELF AND DO IT TOGETHER. BECAUSE WHAT […]
Bomb Ass Chili Recipe
From the files of Jonathan Valelly, two-time iconic champion of the Swarthmore United Methodist Church cook-off (2005 & 2006) INSTRUCTIONS […]
Herb-Infused Honey for Winter Wellness
PUT AUTUMN’S HARVEST TO USE IN THESE HERBAL HONEY TINCTURES, ADAPTED BY JESS KATHERINE FROM HER ZINE HARVEST PRESERVE Preserving […]
Snot it Out: Home remedies to get you through winter’s nastiest colds
OUR HERO TRIES IT ALL — INCLUDING ONIONS ON HER FEET — TO DEFY BOTH A CLOGGED NOSE AND THE […]
Fiction: Remember When We Were Kids
It was sometime in the late spring, 1994, when I finally wore out my tape of Nevermind. The black plastic […]
Broken Pencil Zine Awards Nominees and Winners FAQ
Congratulations on being nominated for a BP Zine Award! Below is everything you need to know about what happens next! […]
The Winter Drink Awards: All bevvies are loved, but are they all equal?
Aja Rose Bond is an artist, community organizer, writer and witch. Home Body is a three-part zine created during […]
How to Make Winter Harder: Lessons from Rural Punkery Gone Awry
[column size=one_half position=first ] Reece Steinberg was living in the sticks of the sticks when he wrote this […]
Fiction: Sick by Joe Bongiorno
SCREAMS OF WILD MEN fill Chez Beaudry’s cramped, sweat-dripping kitchen. Enzo scrubs dirty dishes while the line cooks play […]