Black-Ink-Ocean

BLACK-INK-OCEAN is a southern gothic literary news-mag. Each one of us become like a sea of raindrops melting into an ocean of black ink.

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The interest check for our project Covens & Chivalry is now open! 🖤

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4.10.26

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Black-Ink-Ocean Press is open for submission!

We are a Southern Gothic literary magazine that publishes twice a year, and we want to see your work! We love all things weird, experimental, speculative, bleak, daring, and grotesque. We want to be profoundly disturbed.

Our first issue is scheduled for Summer 2026, so our cutoff for this reading period will be May 20th. Pieces submitted after this date will be considered for our fall/winter issue.

Submit Here

Asks are open if you have any questions!

@zinefeed, @zinetracker, @open-zines, @all-zine-apps, @orangezines

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by briscoepark

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hi! quick question about the magazine issue (as someone that has never submitted or tried for one): specifically around for art pieces submissions: are the pieces to submit meant to be the final ones for submission or more or a sample of what you can do (like a portfolio) and you'll be contacted if you are accepted to be published in the magazine? Also, are any of the 2 pieces you submit under a single title? (as the form says Title of work, I'm assuming that's the case)

hi!!! those are great questions!

the pieces submitted should be what you hope gets published. we limited it to two to encourage people to send their best work, and so that we can be sure we have space for a variety of artists. however, you've given us a great idea for artist spotlights in the future! for the form, you can separate the titles by commas or slashes ("Art Piece 1"/ "Art Piece 2") and we'll know what you mean as long as the file names match the titles.

[junabuggy]

Southern Gothic Graphics

⋆˚˖°꒰ঌ Credits: ✟, ♱, ‪✝︎, ✞, ♱⃓, ✟, ♱, ‪✝︎ ˖ ˚⋆ Kofi ໒꒱°˖ ˚⋆

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Would you trust a charming stranger you meet on a back road?

Yes

No

Voting ended onMay 1

[parakeet]

if you go looking for doom and gloom all you will see is doom and gloom. if you go looking for reduced items at the grocery store you may find a littol treat

[blkinkocn]

Black-Ink-Ocean Press is open for submission!

We are a Southern Gothic literary magazine that publishes twice a year, and we want to see your work! We love all things weird, experimental, speculative, bleak, daring, and grotesque. We want to be profoundly disturbed.

Our first issue is scheduled for Summer 2026, so our cutoff for this reading period will be May 20th. Pieces submitted after this date will be considered for our fall/winter issue.

Submit Here

Asks are open if you have any questions!

@zinefeed, @zinetracker, @open-zines, @all-zine-apps, @orangezines

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We’re late to sharing this on tumblr, but there’s still over half a month left of National Poetry Month, and we thought we’d create some prompts to inspire you. Use the tag or use #escapril so we can read and interact with your post!

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🪻Free Southern Gothic Digital Zine 🪻

Black-Ink-Ocean's first digital release is a free mini-issue following the theme of vampirism within the southern gothic genre. This small collections of prose, poetry, and photography is perfect for those who like their macabre tales with a little bite. 🧛🏿

You can read it as a newspaper or as an accessible epub/PDF.

💫Download Zine Here💫

Special thanks to our writers and artists who came together for this first issue! We hope to continue releasing more southern gothic zines in the future (in fact, you can submit here )

Reblogs are very much appreciated!

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