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 |
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.
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]