This issue of Broken Pencil lists the results of the Indie Writer’s Deathmatch, in which Nana K. Adjei-Brenyah emerged victorious. The revised winning story, and two runners up are on display. Running underneath the stories are comments which appeared on the website during battle (including one from me). Contentious stuff. I love it.

Natalie Zina Walschots’s profile of Annie Koyama and the comics press she founded is excellent, and was timely, appearing on newsstands just before TCAF.

Also inside, tons of reviews, including my review of the zine Super Fun Satan Club, and a few poetry books.

My review of Masham Means Everything, by Kanina Dawson (Coteau Books, 2013) is in Quill & Quire‘s April 2013 issue.

I’m super excited. I love Q&Q, and always check out their latest reviews and industry news. In this issue, particularly the story about the collapse of Douglas & McIntyre and where that leaves things. In honour of Poetry Month, there are reviews of 10 poetry titles, and it’s incredible to be even a small part of that.

I feel like my review could have easily been double the length, there was so much I wanted to get into that I seemed to only hinted at. Sometimes it’s quite a challenge for me, cutting out everything but the most essential to fit an allotted word count. Either way, it was a really interesting first collection, check it out.

Broken Pencil 57 is the prison issue, with stories on artists who have been arrested for their art, the inside story on zine publishing behind bars from Ashleigh Gaul. Natalie Zina Walschots has a great profile on BookThug’s DIY punk roots – I had no idea.

In the latest issue I’ve got a few reviews: a fiction review, Attemptations by Kim Clark, and three poetry reviews, The Crystal Palace by Carey Toane, A Dark Boat by Patrick Friesen, and Kerosene, by Jamella Hagen.

As always, there’s also a ton of great zine, comic and artzine, litzine and chapbook, fiction, non-fiction, graphic novel and poetry reviews from a plethora of writers.

In the coming days, samples and excerpts are likely to appear on Broken Pencil‘s website. Check it out.