Broken Pencil is a Canadian magazine based in Toronto that profiles zine culture and independent arts and music. It was founded in 1995 and publishes four times annually.
Editor-in-Chief | Zack Kotzer |
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Fiction Editor | Maria Cichosz |
Former editors | Jonathan Valelly |
Publisher | Hal Niedzviecki Tara Gordon Flint |
Founder | Hal Niedzviecki |
Founded | 1995 |
Country | Canada |
Based in | Toronto, Ontario |
Website | brokenpencil |
ISSN | 1201-8996 |
The magazine was founded in 1995[1] by Hal Niedzviecki.[2][3] Its current editor-in-chief, Zack Kotzer, took over editing duties in 2022.[4]
In 2009, Broken Pencil published a collection of short stories entitled Can'tLit: Fearless Fiction from Broken Pencil Magazine, featuring Canadian independent writers with ECW Press.[5] In 2015, The Toronto Star published an article about the first 20 years of Broken Pencil and its role in zine publishing in Canada.[6]
Broken Pencil has been organizing Canzine, a festival centred around zines and small press publications, since 1995.[7][8]