Black is back. Actually, black never left, though many have tried to claim various shades as the “new black.” At Black Heart, we’ve always known darkness, like spilled ink or a night without stars. We like it best with the lights out and the projector humming with a good, old-fashioned noir.

Help us create our NOIR issue, an homage to the black-and-white crime novels of yesteryear, featuring delicious dames, gregarious gumshoes, Sam Spades, Maltese falcons, Vincent Price charmers and bathtub typists. And don’t forget your femme fatale!

Give us mystery, suspense, guns and girls. Give us a new twist on the old black-and-whites we can quote line for line.

We’re looking for the following:

FLASH – 800 words or less

POETRY – up to 3 per author

ARTWORK – original drawings, photos, paintings & more inspired by our theme

Items selected for inclusion will be published in our new digital issue, a quarterly themed event that will be available for digital download on the website starting in June 2011. Issues will be run separately from general submissions and feature up to 10 artists whose work we love. For more info, please see http://blackheartmagazine.com.

DEADLINE: April 30, 2011

 Full details about whatwe’re looking for, and any submissions can be made online here:
http://blackheartmagazine.submishmash.com/Submit/4176/Account