Submissions
The current submission period is for Black Hole News
Volume 0, with a tenative publishing date of June 26th, 2026.
This volume's loose theme is:
Communication
Black Hole News is seeking bold, emerging, and underrepresented voices. We’re drawn to work that feels unexpected; pieces that bend genre, disrupt convention, and rethink what deserves attention in the literary world. Send us writing that fractures the familiar.
We also strongly encourage submissions from writers who have experienced marginalization or exclusion themselves. Literary spaces have historically centered certain voices over others, and we are committed to uplifting work—and writers—that have too often been left out.
If it feels strange or too unconventional for other outlets, send it our way. That’s exactly what we’re interested in.
*Black Hole News will not consider submissions that endorse prejudice, racism, xenophobia, classism, sexism, ableism, fat-shaming, homophobia, or gratuitous violence. We reserve the right to reject such submissions outright and reject further submissions from the author. We also reserve the right to remove content from our journal if an author is known to be harassing or abusive. We do not accept plagiarized content in any form. We care deeply about hearing human voices and are not interested in stories that are generated from machines.
Our AI policy: AI is a tool to be used, but it does not benefit a person's pursuit of creative writing.
We strongly recommend that if you're interested in submitting to Black Hole News, the work you submit should be created by you — a person with a unique perspective, history, and set of challenges — rather than strung together from an LLM or chatbot that cannot possibly be as interesting as you and your individual voice.
We want to hear YOU! Not your tokens!
Fiction
Word count: 1,200–5,000 words
Please submit one short story per entry. Pieces under 1,200 words should be categorized as Flash Fiction. Manuscripts should be double-spaced, using 12pt Times New Roman or a comparable serif font.
Reframe the familiar, unsettle the everyday, and take us beyond expected boundaries—whether through stories of alienation, nonconformity, or imagined worlds that stretch across time and space.
While we generally consider work up to 5,000 words, we may review submissions as long as 6,000 words.
Flash Fiction
Word count: 1,200 words or less
Please submit no more than three flash fiction pieces per submission. Texts should be double-spaced in 12pt Times New Roman or a similar serif typeface.
Submissions for Flash Fiction may also be considered for BHN.TODAY.
Poetry
Length guidelines: up to 5 poems, 10 pages maximum
Submit no more than five poems per entry, with a total length not exceeding ten pages. Please combine all poems into a single document.
We welcome poetry that uses intricate line breaks and varied indentation. That said, keep in mind that longer or highly complex pieces require careful, line-by-line formatting for web publication—so please be mindful of overall length and presentation.
Submissions for Poetry may also be considered for BHN.TODAY.
Comics & Art
We’re looking for art, comics, and visual storytelling in all their forms—work that is both thoughtful and compelling. We’re especially interested in pieces that engage directly with the present moment: work that observes, reshapes, and imagines new possibilities for the world as it is and as it could be.
We also welcome work that extends beyond the page. Multidisciplinary and nontraditional formats—such as textiles, collage, sculpture, installation, or conceptual works—are encouraged. If needed, you can submit documentation through photographs. If your work can be translated onto the page in some form, we’d love to see it.
Other
None of these options applies to me.
The Void has shared something completely different.
Throw us a curveball.
*Black Hole News will not consider submissions that endorse prejudice, racism, xenophobia, classism, sexism, ableism, fat-shaming, homophobia, or gratuitous violence. We reserve the right to reject such submissions outright and reject further submissions from the author. We also reserve the right to remove content from our journal if an author is known to be harassing or abusive. We do not accept plagiarized content in any form. We care deeply about hearing human voices and are not interested in stories that are generated from machines.