Welcome to The Broken Plate Recommends Posted on November 3, 2021March 13, 2025 By The Broken Plate Editors Each week, members of The Broken Plate‘s staff will write blog posts recommending books, stories, poems and art that they find arresting and interesting. This can be anything that they find pertains to the mission that we stand for, as long as we feel that it is work of merit that fits with the brand and identity we have cultivated for our journal. The Broken Plate Recommends
The Broken Plate Recommends Nothing But Blackened Teeth and Inner Demons Posted on December 15, 2021March 13, 2025 At The Broken Plate, the strife that accompanies being human is something we value greatly. Often, themes of fragility and the presence of various inner demons appear in ghost stories. There is strife from things like Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House to shows like The Haunting of Bly… Read More
The Broken Plate Recommends Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley Ford – an Interview Posted on December 15, 2021March 13, 2025 It was a combination of things that led Ashley C Ford to choose Ball State for college. “I chose Ball State partly because I thought it was beautiful, partly because it felt far enough away from my family that I could sort of be whoever I wanted but not so… Read More
The Broken Plate Recommends The Mists of Avalon and Untold Stories Posted on November 3, 2021March 13, 2025 The Broken Plate is a literary magazine that seeks to provide a platform for individual stories. Each individual has a story, and we live in a society that privileges certain stories over others. This is true, especially in the literary world. However, The Broken Plate seeks to combat this by… Read More