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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 Ethan Sacks – Pt. 2

    Interview with Ethan Sacks – Pt. 2

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    Jason Holtzman

    (This is a continuation of Jason Holtzman’s interview with Ethan Sacks) Discussing Archetypes Jason Holtzman (JH): Let’s take a dive into something more fun and speculative based on some of your previous work — the “grizzled old man” archetype. You’ve written fan favorite series such as Old Man Hawkeye and…

  • The Broken Plate Collaborates

    The Broken Plate Collaborates

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    Natalee Bohanon

    “Collaboration – the action of working  with someone to produce or create   something” – Oxford Languages   We at The Broken Plate are working in a way that is defined as collaboration. We collaborate to create a literary magazine, a collective a work that is unique, inclusive, and creative.    To…

  • Interview with Gretchen Stelter

    Interview with Gretchen Stelter

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    Julissa Garcia

    Julissa Garcia (JG): You have had such an impressive career in editing and publishing, from co-founding your own literary agency, Baker’s Mark, to working on over 800 books for traditional publishing houses (including New York Times, USA Today, and Entertainment Weekly bestsellers), to ghost writing, to freelance work, to working…