Black Heart accepts submissions in all genres of previously unpublished works short fiction, with a max word count of 2,000 words. **WE ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTING POETRY SUBMISSIONS OF ANY KIND.**

As of 2020, we publish annual themed issues.

Our current theme is:

• LOVE NOTES (2020)

Please ONLY submit work that relate to this theme, during the window noted in the guidelines below. We look forward to reading your work.

  XO,
The Black Heart Staff