About
Black Heart Magazine is an independent online literary magazine, transmitting our tenacious texts around the world at the speed of wifi. Founded by Editor-in-Chief Laura Roberts, the site has been combating clichés and berating boring wordslinging since 2004. Our objective can be summarized in three short words:
Reading. Writing. Rebellion.
That’s LITERARY rebellion, so ease off the trigger there, tiger.
In brief, we publish fiction that breaks the rules. Join us, if you dare. Or read more about what we’re looking for in Laura’s editor interview at the Review Review or her editor interview at Duotrope.
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Our Mission
We publish the best in short-form modern literature, from pulp to literary fiction and everything in-between. Genre is dead, though plot (despite advertisements to the contrary) is not. We offer our readers the new, the bizarre and the transgressive side of life, the universe and everything.
Publishing Schedule
With a weekly publishing schedule, our website offers original fiction (short prose and poetry) on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays, plus indie author interviews, book reviews and Character Crushes on Thursdays.
Our reading period never ends; we accept submissions all year-round. Or, at least until we fill up our calendar for the year.
In addition to our weekly output, we also publish occasional digital anthologies featuring different genres to keep your e-readers buzzing with new content. Check out our first anthology, NOIR, guest edited by crime fictionista Jimmy Callaway, and stay tuned for our next collection.
Comments Policy
Where’d the comments section go? It’s not that we don’t like to hear from our readers; it’s more that we hate the dumbass rants we get from random idiots stopping by the site. You know, the ones who don’t understand the concept of fictional characters, and take every story written in a realistic style as fact. So we turned comments off. Besides, everybody talks about this stuff on Facebook nowadays, right?
Staff
Who’s driving this thing? Check out our Contributors page for more details on Founding Editor Laura Roberts, Poetry Editor Gabino Iglesias and Fiction Editors Heather L. Nelson and Quill Shiv, along with our crew of Staff Readers, Book Reviewers, Interviewers, Guest Bloggers and past contributors.
Support Literary Rebellion
Like what you see? We do this for the love, not the money. Consider supporting our literary rebellion with a purchase in our Store, where we sell back-issues of our beautifully designed print mag as PDFs, and copies of our digital anthologies in all e-reader formats.
Want to advertise with us? Check out our Ads page for more details.
For the terminally cash-strapped supporter, click to follow us on Facebook, sign up for our mailing list, grab our RSS feed or follow us onTwitter to stay involved and voice your opinions.
Get Involved
Want to get more involved? Check our Submissions page for more details on what we’re looking to publish, or comment on one of our stories to join in on the fun.
Thanks for reading, and we look forward to hearing from you!
