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Dec.29.2011
Only a few more days to enter your short story in the Broken Pencil Indie Writers Deathmatch contest and get in on the world's wildest writing contest!
http://www.brokenpencil.com/deathmatch
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Dec.09.2011
Deathmatch Indie Writers Short Story Contest
“This is definitely not a contest for sensitive writer types. If you can’t handle the thought of your short story being smacked down by online voters, then you’ll want to stay well clear of this one. Think Literary Survivor. On an island. Surrounded...
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Apr.24.2011
Hello Red Roomers, For your enjoyment this Easter I submit a story about God's harried and disenchanted personal assistant. Follow the link here to YouTube to hear the story as read aloud by me at the recent launch of my new book of short stories in Toronto. Take care, Hal Niedzviecki!
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Mar.17.2011
It's the final round of the Deathmatch! Who will win? Who will be crowned DM 2011 winner?
So here's the deal. It's Colin Brush's Free Therapy, a teenage saga about a nerdy kid who plays therapist to one of the school hotties vs. David Griffin Brown's Brink, the tale of a couple struggling...
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Nov.18.2010
Hi everyone, I'll be one of the judges of the 4th annual Indie Writers Deathmatch. Check out all the info below and send in your short story! http://www.brokenpencil.com/deathmatch
Broken Pencil Magazine Presents: Indie Writers Deathmatch IV!
“This is definitely not a contest for sensitive writer...
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Nov.18.2010
Hi everyone, I'll be one of the judges of the 4th annual Indie Writers Deathmatch. Check out all the info below and send in your short story! http://www.brokenpencil.com/deathmatch
Broken Pencil Magazine Presents: Indie Writers Deathmatch IV!
“This is definitely not a contest for sensitive writer...
Continue Reading »
Nov.18.2010
Hi everyone, I'll be one of the judges of the 4th annual Indie Writers Deathmatch. Check out all the info below and send in your short story! http://www.brokenpencil.com/deathmatch
Broken Pencil Magazine Presents: Indie Writers Deathmatch IV!
“This is definitely not a contest for sensitive writer...
Continue Reading »
Sep.30.2010
Peep Comes to Vancouver
Hey everyone, I’ll be doing a Peep talk in Vancouver as part of Canzine West: festival of zines and underground culture. I’ll be talking about the rise of Peep Culture and exploring Peep phenomenon specifically as they pertain to independent culture creators, namely: is...
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Aug.19.2010
Hey everyone, here's a short piece I wrote for AOLnews about why, despite all the warnings about privacy online, we just can't bring ourselves to care nearly as much as we should.
A taste: “Oh but haven't recent polls demonstrated that we are more concerned than ever about our privacy online?...
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Aug.05.2010
The summer issue of Broken Pencil is now circulating around the planet. Here are a few samples of what you will find behind its extremely pink and cybernetic cover. Come back on Monday for a few more samples. Then keep coming back each Monday for a few more.
Let's start you off with a...
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Jul.21.2010
Why limit our social networking just because we're dead? Brief ruminations on online life after death. Read the whole thing at the Peep Diaries blog: http://bit.ly/dyrWPU
"But our widespread embrace of Peep Culture suggests that we might want something else: new ways to continue...
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Feb.23.2010
Everything I think I’ve hit the ultimate peep phenomenon, the one thing that totally conveys everything there is to convey about Peep Culture, something new comes up.
In this case, it’s ChatRoulette, a site that is spawning all kinds of articles, blog posts and states of excitement. On ChatRoulette...
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Jan.02.2010
Hey everyone, the magazine I publish, Broken Pencil, runs an annual short story contest called Indie Writers Deathmatch. It’s super fun and crazy. The top 8 stories as picked by the BP editors (including myself) battle against each other in our online arena. The top three stories get published in...
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Nov.17.2009
I start off my book The Peep Diaries by noting that the 2008 word of the year as identified by the Webster’s New World Dictionary was Overshare. (Read the original blog post here.) Now the new Oxford American Dictionary has stepped up to the plate to preach the new lexicon of Peep to the...
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Nov.08.2009
For more on my book The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning To Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors visit http://thepeepdiaries.com
There’s so much Peep culture in the daily news, I can barely read it all, let alone blog about it. And yet I know I should be doing a way better job of getting...
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Niedzviecki is a gifted writer, thoughtful and insightful.”
—The Globe and Mail
About Hal
Hal Niedzviecki is a writer, culture commentator and editor whose work challengespreconceptions and confronts readers with the offenses of everyday life. He is the authorof many books including The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves...
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