Coffin Bell is a quarterly online journal of dark literature. Submissions now open–seeking poetry, flash fiction, short stories, creative nonfiction, essay, and short criticism that explore dark themes. We publish two themed and two unthemed issues per year, and a print annual anthology of highlights.
Themes for 2024 are "Multiverses" (7.2), and "Queer, Feminist, and BIPOC Gothic" (7.4), going live 10/31/2024 and guest edited by Kirsten Imani Kasai, the author of The House of Erzulie (Shade Mountain Press, 2018), Ice Song (Del Rey, 2009) and Tattoo (Del Rey, 2011). Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Transition, Arts & Letters, Existere Journal of Arts & Literature, Drunk Monkeys, The Body Horror Book and The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. According to Foreword Reviews, “Kirsten makes the macabre beautiful.” She is an Assistant Professor of Popular Fiction at Emerson College. Find her online at www.KirstenImaniKasai.com.
Send us your literary darkness!
Please attach 1-5 flashes in a single file.
Please attach up to five poems in a single file.
Attach 1-5 poems in a single file.
Please attach one short story up to 7500 words.
Soft word count is <7500 words.
Soft word count <7500.
No soft word count.
Please use this form for all art submissions.
You may submit up to 10 works on this form. If you have more to offer, please state that in your cover letter and if we accept your submission we will solicit the additional files at that time.
Please use this form for all art submissions.
You may submit up to 10 works on this form. If you have more to offer, please state that in your cover letter and if we accept your submission we will solicit the additional files at that time.