"[4][5] Broken Pencil's writers declared Taddle Creek a "gorgeous" magazine and said it had achieved "a track record of consistently publishing an extremely engaging collection of fiction, poetry and illustration.
For example Taddle Creek has taken a firm but humorous stand against the erratic and error filled ways modern writers use apostrophes.
[7] It has also published a reference book calledThe Taddle Creek Guidebook to Fact-Checking Fiction that aims to help writers avoid anachronisms and other factual errors.
[3][5] Founded in 1997[9] by publisher Conan Tobias, the magazine originally served Toronto's Annex neighbourhood with an annual Christmas issue.
[citation needed] In December 2007, the magazine celebrated its tenth anniversary with an unusually large, 72-page issue, a launch party at Toronto's Gladstone Hotel.