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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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    Mack Reed

    Around four years ago, I began writing my first novel. I read “The Maze Runner” by James Dashner, and I thought that the main characters had chemistry that none of the others did – and that it would have been such a beautiful love story. “We need more queer representation…

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    Regarding Worldbuilding

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    Ava Joniec

    Have you ever become so immersed in a book that you lose track of time? The setting and sensory details are written so well that you can practically taste and smell the food, feel the sun and wind on your face, and feel the squish of the mossy forest floor…

  • Inspiration In the World Around Us

    Inspiration In the World Around Us

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    Emma Carlson

    When you’re a student and a writer, finding inspiration can be hard. You get caught up in everything that you have to write for class, and when you go to write for yourself, nothing is there; nothing calls to you. It can be even harder to find inspiration when you…