Do you love dark literature? Would you like to join the Coffin Bell masthead? We are currently accepting applications for the position of fiction reader. Think you’d be a great fit? Fill out the form here: https://forms.gle/DKKYSrrmqA5EFE5S6.
Author: Coffin Bell
Quarterly online journal for dark literature.
WANTED: Fiction Editor
Do you love dark literature? Would you like to join the Coffin Bell masthead? We are currently accepting applications for the position of fiction reader. Think you’d be a great fit? Fill out the form here: https://forms.gle/DKKYSrrmqA5EFE5S6.
Now accepting donations via PayPal!
Love the work we do? Coffin Bell now accepts donations via PayPal! Want to help us keep the website running, cover Submittable costs, and fund future print anthologies? Send us a donation! (You will receive a donation receipt from PayPal.) Scroll to the bottom of the left menu on any page on coffinbell.com to see the Donation widget, where you can donate to us in increments of $5. (You will be taken to PayPal checkout.) You can also donate as you submit using our $3 Tip Jar option in Submittable. We appreciate your support!
Upcoming Themes
While the Lucky Thirteen Newsletter is on hiatus, we will be updating the blog with news instead.
- On April 1, 2023, Volume 6, Issue No. 2 – FAMILIARS – will go live. We are working through submissions for this issue now.
- On October 1, 2023, Volume 6, Issue No. 4 – MALICIOUS EDITIONS – will go live. Submissions for this themed issue are currently open and will close on 6/30/2023.
- On August 1, 2023, submissions will open for Volume 7, Issue No. 2 – MULTIVERSES. CFS: We are looking for fiction, poetry, and nonfiction on the theme of Multiverses. Send us your work with portals, gateways, wormholes, deep space, parallel dimensions, alternate realities, and abysses of time. Submission window for this theme opens 8/1/2023 and closes 12/31/2023.
- General submissions will be closing June 1, 2023 and will remain closed until August 1, 2023 to allow us to catch up on the queue.
- Feedback submissions will be reopening in late 2023 to early 2024, or as soon as we are caught up on general submissions. We will post an update when the feedback submission forms are live.
Dark Is the New Light: Thank You for Your Support!
Coffin Bell is thrilled to announce that our Kickstarter was successfully funded! We owe a debt of gratitude to all who chipped in to back us, shared our Kickstarter, and offered words of support.
Meeting our fundraising goal means that we will be publishing four online issues in 2022 and publishing the print anthology Coffin Bell THREE. It allowed us to pay our business web hosting expenses as well as our submissions manager expenses.
Stay tuned for updates as we begin selecting work for THREE, and stand by for an announcement about how we are re-imagining the print anthologies we publish in the future, from Coffin Bell FOUR and onward.
Thank you all for the overwhelming show of support, and for helping us keep the nightmares alive.
~ Tamara Burross Grisanti, Editor-in-Chief