Broken Pencil Magazine

01/25/2025

With New Star, Kingston WritersFest and Broken Pencil closed down and many other arts organizations in Canada in freefall, I discuss how woke identity politics is killing the Canadian arts.

Novelist Hal Niedzviecki has been writing & supporting Canadian literature for decades. Why did chronically online leftists decide to target him? What's gone wrong in Canadian arts & lit?

11/30/2024

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08/28/2024

Got new zines that you can’t wait to share? Take your work to the next level by entering the Broken Pencil Zine Awards. Submit by the end of September for a shot at cash prizes, magazine coverage, and the chance to give your own Oscar-worthy acceptance speech at our live awards show in Toronto 🏆 Submit by September 30th—details on our website.

07/31/2024

Broken Pencil Magazine is edited by Zack Kotzer and Olea Kim. We decide the content and direction of the magazine and select which materials to publish- materials chosen from submissions and pitches from the zine community (you). Therefore, the content of the magazine reflects our community through our editorial voices. For example, in the latest issue (103), you will find coverage of zines made during the Columbia student occupation protesting the violent colonization of Palestine on page 30.

As the editors, we welcome and encourage you to submit pro-Palestinian pitches (which we pay for upon publication), to use your table at Canzine to disseminate your pro-Palestinian publications, and to use your freedom of speech put pressure on the powers-at-be who support what you morally oppose.

We will continue to work in order to ensure that the magazine reflect the concerns of the community it serves and sincerely value your insights.

07/23/2024

For the first time since the Plague- Ottawa Canzine is back! Hosted by the Glebe Community Centre!

Apply at Canzine.ca

07/22/2024

Since we are benevolent overlords we are granting you ONE MORE WEEK to apply to Canzine!

Ottawa Canzine will be taking place on September 22, 2024 at the Glebe Community Centre (175 Third Ave) while Toronto Canzine will be on October 27, 2024, returning to the Cecil Community Center (58 Cecil St)!

As was the case last year, due to limited space it will not be first-come-first-serve. Artists and vendors who focus on zines will be prioritized. If your zine is not ready or listed on the site you provided, please make clear in your application what kind of zine you expect to sell.

All accepted applications come with a 1-year subscription to Broken Pencil (or an extension to your subscription if you are already a subscriber). There are no refunds, although any vendors who cancel will still receive a free one-year subscription. Additionally, all applicants who are not selected for an in-person Canzine will be offered preferred placement in the next Online Canzine.

Registration for Ottawa Canzine is available here: https://canzine.myshopify.com/blogs/news/ottawa-canzine-2024

Registration for Toronto Canzine is available here: https://canzine.myshopify.com/blogs/news/toronto-canzine-2024

Registration for both festivals closes on July 22nd.

If you need any assistance, have any questions or concerns, please email us at [email protected].

Canzine poster art provided by Riley Drummond.

We would like to thank sponsors Seneca Polytechnic School of Creative Arts and Animation, The Ontario Arts Council and Pow Pow Press for helping make Canzine possible.

07/16/2024

Registrations for Canzine 2024 are officially OPEN! Join us in Toronto AND Ottawa for an uncanny smorgasbord of zines, art, comics, discussions, workshops and surprises!

Ottawa Canzine will be taking place on September 22, 2024 at the Glebe Community Centre (175 Third Ave) while Toronto Canzine will be on October 27, 2024, returning to the Cecil Community Center (58 Cecil St)!

As was the case last year, due to limited space it will not be first-come-first-serve. Artists and vendors who focus on zines will be prioritized. If your zine is not ready or listed on the site you provided, please make clear in your application what kind of zine you expect to sell.

All accepted applications come with a 1-year subscription to Broken Pencil (or an extension to your subscription if you are already a subscriber). There are no refunds, although any vendors who cancel will still receive a free one-year subscription. Additionally, all applicants who are not selected for an in-person Canzine will be offered preferred placement in the next Online Canzine.

Registration for Ottawa Canzine is available here: https://canzine.myshopify.com/blogs/news/ottawa-canzine-2024

Registration for Toronto Canzine is available here: https://canzine.myshopify.com/blogs/news/toronto-canzine-2024

Registration for both festivals closes on July 22nd.

If you need any assistance, have any questions or concerns, please email us at [email protected].

Canzine poster art provided by Riley Drummond.

We would like to thank sponsors Seneca Polytechnic School of Creative Arts and Animation, The Ontario Arts Council and Pow Pow Press for helping make Canzine possible.

06/25/2024

THUNDEROUS FEMINISM: I always thought I’d gotten into zines through comic conventions and my own dorkery, but I’d missed a connection to self-publishing that was closer to home. My mother and many women I knew growing up in Thunder Bay were contributors to a long-running feminist periodical: Northern Woman Journal. ( )

READ THE FULL ARTICLE ON BROKENPENCIL.COM

05/30/2024

DM US FOR THE SUPER SECRET CODE 🤫

For the summer issue, individuals and small collectives can showcase their offerings to Broken Pencil Magazine’s readership FOR FREE. Submit your 250-word advertisement today to be featured in our next print issue. The weirder the better! Submissions close June 7th.

Disclaimer: example classifieds section is fabricated, phony, a complete fiction. We made it up!

05/28/2024

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05/14/2024

📌  Interested in reaching out to Broken Pencil Magazine’s readership? For just $29.99 CAD, submit your 250-word classified for our next print issue.

📌 Ads should anticipate one season ahead. For example, if you’re advertising an event in October, your submission should target the summer issue (which we are now accepting submissions for!).

📌 Also, note that we reserve the right to decline placement, even post-payment (in which case, payment will be refunded).

📌Submit your ad today!

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05/07/2024

March 2023: 50+ people are indicted on RICO charges. The evidence against them? Zines.

🐷 We take a look at Cop City, a police training facility displacing a forest, and how the persecution of its critics became a chilling assault on free expression.

On top of this crisis, this edition of Broken Pencil features a look at:
🐷 Why is burning the story down.
🐷 How the young cartoonist is making a scene for himself from the sidelines (or in his case, sidewalk).
🐷 A report from the Brooklyn Museum’s Copy Machine Manifestos exhibition and how we curate the meaning of zines.
🐷 Underground animator perverts American History yet again with new novel.
🐷 Why college radio stations remain one of the last vestiges of indie media.
🐷 A guide on surviving your first art fair.
🐷 A look at this year’s Doug Wright awards!
🐷 A microessay mixtape for the foodies and freaks alike.

PLUS endless ZINE, COMICS, MUSIC, GAME, FILM, & INDIE BOOK reviews!

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