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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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Zines and coffee: a classic, undeniable match. And now, Kat Melheim has created the perfect zine to go with a […]
Zine Philosophy: Community Zines as a Response to Exclusion
The Downtown Eastside Women’s Art Collective (DEWAC) is a volunteer-run, arts-based organization that serves trans and cis women, two-spirit, and […]
Deathmatch 2019 Prize: $$$ and the Ultimate Literary Makeover
Broken Pencil‘s annual Deathmatch is back and open for short story submissions. This year, the winner gets: Their story published in Broken Pencil: the […]
Seven Stories Founder Dan Simon to Give Advice As Part of Deathmatch Prize
He’s worked with the likes of Kurt Vonnegut, Octavia E. Butler, and Noam Chomsky. And now, if you win the Deathmatch […]
Letter from the editor: zines in a bleak world
Every day I wake up and I feel this funny mixture of emotions. It’s part dread and part anxiety; that […]
Online Exclusive Fiction: Disguises
It was after that long, sweaty afternoon down in the Gassett’s basement. That day when Billy finally managed to pick […]
Two Weeks Left to Enter the Deathmatch Short Story Contest!
Ooooh Gary…. Two weeks left to enter the Deathmatch.
Deathmatch Guest Judge: Author Victoria Hetherington
Toronto-based writer Victoria Hetherington will be a guest judge for this year’s Deathmatch Indie Writer’s Short Story Contest! She’ll help […]
Q&A with Hope Amico of Gutwrench Press
Hope Amico of Gutwrench Press is a printer based out of New Orleans, Louisiana. I met Hope Amico this past […]
Fiction: Closer
Lionel wondered when exactly he had started positioning himself closer to people, to strangers, on purpose. On the city bus […]