Broken Pencil

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Broken Pencil
Editor-in-ChiefZack Kotzer
Fiction EditorMaria Cichosz
Former editorsJonathan Valelly
Publisher Hal Niedzviecki
Tara Gordon Flint
FounderHal Niedzviecki
Founded1995
Country Canada
Based in Toronto, Ontario
Website brokenpencil.com
ISSN 1201-8996

Broken Pencil is a Canadian magazine based in Toronto, Canada that profiles zine culture and independent arts and music. It was founded in 1995 [1] and publishes four times annually. [2]

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History

The magazine was founded in 1995 [1] by Hal Niedzviecki. [3] [4] Its current editor-in-chief, Zack Kotzer, took over editing duties in 2022. [5]

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. [6] In 2015, The Toronto Star published an article about the first 20 years of Broken Pencil and its role in zine publishing in Canada. [3]

Broken Pencil has been organizing Canzine, a Toronto-based festival centred around zines and small press publications, since 1995. [7] [8]

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