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About The Broken Plate

Founded in 2004, The Broken Plate publishes a variety of works by both emerging and established authors. Over the years, we have published writing by Roxane Gay, Mark Halliday, Celeste Ng, Elena Passarello, and many others. Send us work that will make us think, make us smile, or make us snap our fingers and nod knowingly. Along with basking in the immense talent of our submitters, we at The Broken Plate work to support the literary community by publishing reviews of books by small publishers and celebrating the successes of first-time authors through interviews and our partnership with Ball State’s annual In Print Festival of First Books. The entire journal is compiled, edited, and designed by the hardworking and talented Ball State University undergraduate students enrolled in English 489: Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing.

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The Broken Plate is a literary magazine produced by undergraduate students at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. In an especially fragmented world, we embrace the resilient and restorative power of creativity as a means to uniting singular voices. The Broken Plate values all work, from the realistic to the whimsical, that celebrates both the strangeness and the beauty of our human existence. 

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  • Interview with Silas Hansen

    Interview with Silas Hansen

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    Aleaha Patton

    Silas Hansen’s essays have appeared or are forthcoming in literary magazines such as The Normal School, Colorado Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Redivider, and Hobart, featured on Slate and Catapult. He is working on a collection of essays. He is also the nonfiction editor of Waxwing. He is currently directing the…

  • Interview With Brittany Means

    Interview With Brittany Means

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    Kya Twitty

    Brittany Means was born dead in Indiana, but now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She earned her MFA from the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa, and a Bachelor’s in English from Ball State University prior to that. Her debut memoir, Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways,…

  • Interview with Mark Neely

    Interview with Mark Neely

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    Jackson Smith

    Jackson Smith (JS): How did the idea for The Broken Plate come about? Why do you think it’s important for Ball State to offer undergraduates a practicum focused on editing and publishing?  How does that impact the students, and the Ball State community as a whole?   Mark Neely (MN): Ball…