Cover reveal for Issue 3!! Once again my brilliant friend & our intrepid designer @troy_palmer has absolutely nailed the vibe! #artists #writers ##poet #fiction #fictionwriter #shortstories #flashfiction #creativewriting #creativenonfiction #literarymagazine #litmag #zine #zinemaking 🤘🔥✨

The process for Issue 3 is processing! Check out our badass cover reveal thanks to designer @troypalmer.bsky.social!

Cover reveal for Issue 3!! Once again my brilliant friend & our intrepid designer @troy_palmer has absolutely nailed the vibe! #artists #writers ##poet #fiction #fictionwriter #shortstories #flashfiction #creativewriting #creativenonfiction #literarymagazine #litmag #zine #zinemaking 🤘🔥✨

Issue 3 is everything we need right now. It is beauty and rage, tender and brutal, and it’s coming for you late summer! And since I can’t do anything right the 1st time, please share this version of the flyer. ✨🔥✨

Issue 3 is everything we need right now. It is beauty and rage, tender and brutal, and it’s coming for you late summer! And since I can’t do anything right the 1st time, please share this version of the flyer. ✨🔥✨

Hey y’all, stay tuned for our Issue 3 contributor announcement coming soon.

FYI Black Lily Friends. See below or it’s also in ALT.

I doubt everything and then I read your @blacklilyzine.bsky.social submissions & see your art & know I gotta keep trying on this project. ✨🖤✨

send up to 5 poems, up to 3 micros/flashes/hybrids max 1,000 words total, one story or essay up to 2,500 words, and up to 5 pieces of visual art as an attachment (.docx, google docs, PDFs are prob best) with a short bio to [email protected]. If you had work in issue 2, please hang back.

Send in your subs:

Last day to get those submissions in. Don’t forget, we need your art (the more subversive, the better) too!

Last day to get those submissions in. Don’t forget, we need your art (the more subversive, the better) too!

Seeing lots of submissions the last few days. Thanks, y’all! We have a pulse. Deadline 4/15. Max 2500 words/5 poems/5 pieces of art of whatever you’d like to send. The goth/punk/anti-fascist umbrella is big & inclusive so don’t let the “is it ____ enough?” Q deter you. [email protected]

Seeing lots of submissions the last few days. Thanks, y’all! We have a pulse. Deadline 4/15. Max 2500 words/5 poems/5 pieces of art of whatever you’d like to send. The goth/punk/anti-fascist umbrella is big & inclusive so don’t let the “is it ____ enough?” Q deter you. [email protected]

Deadline extended. Send your work!

Welcome, new punk/goth/anti-fascist friends! We’re still looking for all genres (art too). Closing 4/15 & will make all decisions after. It’s just me @bettysueblue.bsky.social as the EIC, @troypalmer.bsky.social (formerly of Little Fiction) as the designer & a rotating, talented team of readers.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Open to submissions:

Deadline extended to 4/15. Still needing stuff in every genre. If we don’t get enough submissions, I’m gonna consider the project unviable and close after two issues but still proud of what we put out.

Deadline extended to 4/15. If we don’t get enough submissions, I’m likely gonna scrap the project after two issues.

Hey y’all, @bettysueblue.bsky.social here. I’ll be at AWP in Los Angeles next week. If you’re going & would like to snag a copy of Issue 1 or 2, hmu. I don’t have a table bc of $ but I’ll be hanging around the Bookfair, offsite events, and the main hotel bar with what I can carry.

If you’re around AWP, I have a smol number of @blacklilyzine.bsky.social issue two I’m carrying around. HMU.

Hey y’all, @bettysueblue.bsky.social here. I’ll be at AWP in Los Angeles next week. If you’re going & would like to snag a copy of Issue 1 or 2, hmu. I don’t have a table bc of $ but I’ll be hanging around the Bookfair, offsite events, and the main hotel bar with what I can carry.

send up to 5 poems, up to 3 micros/flashes/hybrids max 1,000 words total, one story or essay up to 2,500 words, and up to 5 pieces of visual art as an attachment (.docx, google docs, PDFs are prob best) with a short bio to [email protected]. If you had work in issue 2, please hang back.

Ozymandias

Wrote a quick and dirty illustrated explainer on The Department of Education because if I have to hear any more misinformation about it I'm going to lose my goddamn mind. open.substack.com/pub/aubreyhi...

Story in @blacklilyzine.bsky.social

And here’s a thread of snippets from our first two issues

Hey y’all. We’re a smol, still new goth/punk/antifascist print-only zine. If you want to put your angst about this shit into art/poetry/fiction/CNF/flash/or hybrid firms, please and sit to us. We’re open til 4/1. It’s a small thing we’re doing but I hope it helps. Submission guidelines below:

Saturday seems like the perfect day to send us your weirds. Check us out in the thread below. Last entry = submission guidelines.

Still writing this blog type thing. Still sharing creative prompts. Still crying into the void. bethgilstrap.substack.com/p/im-sorry-t...

Y’all. At AWP, I’m going to carry around a spiral notebook for anyone who wants to get on the @blacklilyzine.bsky.social mailing list. Like the days of yore. Which we should all probably return to tbh. Not that they won’t go through the usps but yeah.

If you like what you see & will be at AWP Los Angeles, I @bettysueblue.bsky.social will be there with as many as I can carry. Couldn’t afford a table but hmu.

I started a thread for those interested in learning more about @blacklilyzine.bsky.social

Black Lily is so awesome and this whole issue is amazing--was so glad to be part of it! Their sub windows is now open!

Here’s how I package the zines. Yes, that’s a lily of the valley seal. It’s both beautiful and poisonous.

Don’t you want to be a part of the next Black Lily?

1. Here’s a thread of snippets & previews from our 1st two issues in case you wondered what we’re all about. Open for subs until 4/1.

Are you a writer or artist who hates fascism & loves goth/punk vibes/stories? Send us your stuff. We need bold, brave submissions to make this thing! And hey, if you’re going to AWP & want to snag a copy of Issues 1 & 2 our publisher/EIC @bettysueblue.bsky.social will be there w all she can carry!

Another week of writing this substack. If you’re interested in hearing about my novel writing process or some prompts that might be good for @blacklilyzine.bsky.social , give it a go. If you like it, maybe subscribe or share. bethgilstrap.substack.com/p/small-as-i...

Issue 2 w cover & packaging. Ain’t she pretty?!

Are you a writer or artist who hates fascism & loves goth/punk vibes/stories? Send us your stuff. We need bold, brave submissions to make this thing! And hey, if you’re going to AWP & want to snag a copy of Issues 1 & 2 our publisher/EIC @bettysueblue.bsky.social will be there w all she can carry!

Oof. My heart. Farewell Lonely Planet Boy. ✨🖤✨

And heyyy, if you have any fiction/poetry/art inspired by the punk af Irving from Severance, hoo boy would I love to see it! Max 2,500 words/5 poems/art pieces.

And heyyy, if you have any fiction/poetry/art inspired by the punk af Irving from Severance, hoo boy would I love to see it! Max 2,500 words/5 poems/art pieces.

Oof. My heart. Farewell Lonely Planet Boy. ✨🖤✨

Reminder that I am currently reading for this beautiful, raging print-only zine. Full submission guidelines in the alt-text. Visit @blacklilyzine.bsky.social for more info on what we’re looking for!!

I don’t know what to say if you disagree with me here. Go read June Jordan. Natalie Diaz. Stephanie Burt. Eugenio Montale. Upfromsumdirt. Get out there and read.

Please welcome our 3rd reader for our summer solstice issue! Submission guidelines in ALT.