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Four reviews in Broken Pencil 58

Another great issue of Broken Pencil, of course. Especially the feature on the rise of books about punk rock. For so long no one felt they were marketable, now we have an explosion of them, and it’s wonderful. In this issue I reviewed Mark Hazelbower’s You Can’t Get There from Here, ((The image above my review of You […]

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Broken Pencil’s Indie Writers’ Deathmatch 2013

From Broken Pencil‘s website: Since 2008, Broken Pencil: the magazine of zine culture and the independent arts, has been running one of the world’s most audacious short story contests. In the Indie Writers’ Deathmatch, the top eight submitted stories as selected by Broken Pencil are pitted against each other two by two. Each week, two stories will

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Writing author bios

I’ve written my share author biographies over the years, and my go-to bio is fairly straightforward: it lists my name, where I’m from, recent publications and this website. If it’s an online publication, or it seems like their readership is fairly hip, I’ll include my Twitter handle. It looks like this: Nico Mara-McKay is a writer living

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