Niedzviecki is library writer (and reader) in residence

Hal Niedzviecki, the co-founder of Broken Pencil, the magazine about zines, is writer-in-residence at the Toronto Public Libraries until the end of December, according to an item in the Shoestring blog for small magazines from Magazines Canada.

Niedzviecki will read manuscripts and works in progress and, by appointment, talk to people about their manuscripts.

In addition to co-founding Broken Pencil (of which he was editor until 2002) and helping to launch the Canzine book and magazine fair, Niedzviecki has authored a number of books including:

• The Big Book of Pop Culture: A How-to Guide for Young Artists (2006)
• The Program (2005, novel)
• Hello, I'm Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity (2004)
• The Original Canadian City Dweller's Almanac (2002, with Darren Wershler-Henry)
• Ditch (2001, novel)
• We Want Some Too: Underground Desire and the Reinvention of Mass Culture (2000)
• Lurvy, A Farmer's Almanac (1999, novel)
• Concrete Forest: The New Fiction of Urban Canada (1998, anthology)
• Smell It (1998, short fiction)