Hello everyone!
This academic year marks the official return of The Broken Plate! Our editorial team of Ball State students is hard at work producing the 2025 issue. After nineteen years of publication, The Broken Plate took a hiatus last year to regroup and plan for our next decade. Now we are back! The release of our 20th issue will coincide with the 20th Anniversary of Ball State’s very own In Print Festival. We’re glad to resume The Broken Plate and return as a staple of Ball State’s student-run publications.
What is the Broken Plate?
The Broken Plate is a literary journal published and assembled entirely by Ball State students in a literary publishing and editing class. Students take on leadership opportunities found throughout the publishing industry, serving in roles like managing editor, associate editor, social media coordinator, book designer, and website manager.
As of this writing, submissions are live on Broken Plate’s Submittable! We encourage writers and artists from all walks of life to submit entries in the forms of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, illustrations, or screenplays. Our team will read all submissions and make publication selections, including the artwork that will be used for the cover and other interior pages. If you’ve got something in mind, click that Submittable link!
What Do We Publish?
The Broken Plate is dedicated to publishing a mix of seasoned writers and up-and-comers, striving to showcase voices across the writing world in our unified collection. We’re excited to put together quality pieces of creative work and present a transformative reading experience. We are grateful for the support of Ball State University and the English Department, as well as for the longtime support of Marj Hiner and the late Homer Hiner.
Looking Towards the Future
This post you’re reading now is one of many! Alongside the launch of the new journal issue, The Broken Plate is also restarting the blog that runs on this very website. Check back often for pieces from students on a variety of topics, such as life as a creative writing student, retrospectives on childhood books, reviews of literature adaptations, and many other subjects.
As one of the two managing editors on this project, you may even see more from me specifically! I’m currently a junior here at Ball State, expanding my publishing knowledge with The Broken Plate after serving as an editor on projects such as the Kickstarted Scott Snyder Presents: Tales from the Cloakroom Vol. 2, Ball State’s Stance: An Undergraduate Philosophy Journal, and (where I currently work) Ball State’s Open Access Publishing. I look forward to this upcoming year with The Broken Plate and helping more great literature find its roots in the publishing world!
It’s time to turn the page – I’ll be back with updates soon.
Jason Holtzman
