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Submission Guidelines

WANTED: LITERARY REBELS, OUTLAWS, BLACKGUARDS, LIARS AND SCOUNDRELS

Black Heart is currently accepting short fictional submissions in all genres for publication on our website, with new updates every Friday. We accept:

Flash Fiction (less than 500 words)
Short Fiction (up to 2,500 words)
Novel Excerpts (up to 2,500 words, these must stand on their own as finished works)
Poetry (limit of 3 poems per submission; maximum of 1,000 words each)
Book Reviews (300 words)

IMPORTANT NOTE: We don’t do themes. We abhor clichés. And if you really want to piss us off, you should probably take a look at Joe Konrath’s “How Not To Write A Story,” and then go ahead and do everything on the list.

RESPONSE TIMES: Vary. Please do not email to ask if we received your piece. If it was submitted prior to our Submishmash submission system change-over, feel free to re-submit that work for consideration. Otherwise, please be patient; we will let you know if we’re interested in your work in a maximum of 3 months. After that, assume we’re not interested.

DON’T SEND US: Anything involving drunken poets, clichéd love affairs, dull genre fiction, duller “literary” fiction, shock-fiction, or anything you haven’t let sit for at least 24 hours.

FINALLY: We reserve the right to edit any pieces submitted for consideration prior to publication. We do not accept previously published work (i.e. if it’s available online at another website, even your own, we consider that published). Please advise if you are contributing the same piece to multiple venues, or have had your work accepted elsewhere in the meantime.

We regret that no monetary payment is available at this time.