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blacklilyzine.bsky.social @blacklilyzine.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Cover reveal for Issue 3!! Once again my brilliant friend & our intrepid designer @troy_palmer has absolutely nailed the vibe! #artists #writers ##poet #fiction #fictionwriter #shortstories #flashfiction #creativewriting #creativenonfiction #literarymagazine #litmag #zine #zinemaking 🤘🔥✨

A person standing in a desert environment in black sleeveless shirt w a paper bag over their head w a sad face drawn on it looks at the camera w one hand on their chest & the other by their side. “Black Lily” repeats in white ( until it gets to the top, then it’s black) the background.

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blacklilyzine.bsky.social @blacklilyzine.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Issue 3 is everything we need right now. It is beauty and rage, tender and brutal, and it’s coming for you late summer! And since I can’t do anything right the 1st time, please share this version of the flyer. ✨🔥✨

A graphic of a hand making the “metal” sign while wearing a spiky bracelet. A jagged black line separates two colors—white with handmade paper type flecks, from a deep salmon color on the bottom. The flyer announces: “BLACK LILY
Issue 3 CONTRIBUTORS:
JL ABBOTT
HEATHER BELL ADAMS
DEE ALLEN
DAVID BAYLISS
EVELYN BERRY
GENEVIEVE BETTS
CLAYTON BRADSHAW
DAVID BRADY
JORDON BRIGGS
GRAYSON BUCKLEY
PIPER CORMAN
SHARON DENMARK
CALEB EDMONDSON
CAL FREEMAN
JAMES R. GAPINSKI
COURT HARLER
KRISTEN HAVENS
HUNTER HODKINSON
MATTHEW HUMPHREY
RONNIE JACKSON
LILYANNE KANE
JEN KROPINAK
JOSHUA LILLIE
PAUL LUIKART
KRISTINE LANGLEY MAHLER
MEGAN MCDERMOTT
MIKE MCLELLAND
RHEA MELINA
IRINA TALL NOVIKOVA
VANESA PACHECO
JEREMY MICHAEL REED
RHY ROBIDOUX
RENEE SALMON
KATHY LOU SCHULTZ
VICTORIA SHEN
KARAH TULL
MORGAN WRIGHT

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blacklilyzine.bsky.social @blacklilyzine.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

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blacklilyzine.bsky.social @blacklilyzine.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Hey y’all, stay tuned for our Issue 3 contributor announcement coming soon.

A black ink handwritten note with a blue doodle-y frame reads “Dear Black dily Friends - All final decisions on Issue 3 have been made & emails sent. Look for a contributor announcement soon. Were just waiting on confirmation from a few folx!

Heart,
Betty

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blacklilyzine.bsky.social @blacklilyzine.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

FYI Black Lily Friends. See below or it’s also in ALT.

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blacklilyzine.bsky.social @blacklilyzine.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

send up to 5 poems, up to 3 micros/flashes/hybrids max 1,000 words total, one story or essay up to 2,500 words, and up to 5 pieces of visual art as an attachment (.docx, google docs, PDFs are prob best) with a short bio to blacklilyzine@gmail.com. If you had work in issue 2, please hang back.

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M.F. Sutherland @megsdregs.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Send in your subs:

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blacklilyzine.bsky.social @blacklilyzine.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Last day to get those submissions in. Don’t forget, we need your art (the more subversive, the better) too!

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blacklilyzine.bsky.social @blacklilyzine.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Last day to get those submissions in. Don’t forget, we need your art (the more subversive, the better) too!

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blacklilyzine.bsky.social @blacklilyzine.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Seeing lots of submissions the last few days. Thanks, y’all! We have a pulse. Deadline 4/15. Max 2500 words/5 poems/5 pieces of art of whatever you’d like to send. The goth/punk/anti-fascist umbrella is big & inclusive so don’t let the “is it ____ enough?” Q deter you. blacklilyzine@gmail.com

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Deadline extended. Send your work!

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blacklilyzine.bsky.social @blacklilyzine.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Welcome, new punk/goth/anti-fascist friends! We’re still looking for all genres (art too). Closing 4/15 & will make all decisions after. It’s just me @bettysueblue.bsky.social as the EIC, @troypalmer.bsky.social (formerly of Little Fiction) as the designer & a rotating, talented team of readers.

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a woman in a black dress is holding a cup of coffee and smiling in goth .

Alt: Anjelica Huston as Morticia Addams in a black dress is holding a cup of coffee/tea/potion and smiling in goth.

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Kristen Havens @kristenhavens.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Open to submissions:

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blacklilyzine.bsky.social @blacklilyzine.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Deadline extended to 4/15. Still needing stuff in every genre. If we don’t get enough submissions, I’m gonna consider the project unviable and close after two issues but still proud of what we put out.

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blacklilyzine.bsky.social @blacklilyzine.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Deadline extended to 4/15. If we don’t get enough submissions, I’m likely gonna scrap the project after two issues.

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blacklilyzine.bsky.social @blacklilyzine.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Hey y’all, @bettysueblue.bsky.social here. I’ll be at AWP in Los Angeles next week. If you’re going & would like to snag a copy of Issue 1 or 2, hmu. I don’t have a table bc of $ but I’ll be hanging around the Bookfair, offsite events, and the main hotel bar with what I can carry.

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blacklilyzine.bsky.social @blacklilyzine.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

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blacklilyzine.bsky.social @blacklilyzine.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 18/03/2025

Ozymandias

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Wrote a quick and dirty illustrated explainer on The Department of Education because if I have to hear any more misinformation about it I'm going to lose my goddamn mind. open.substack.com/pub/aubreyhi...

open.substack.com

Some Facts on the Department of Education

because even the president seems to have no idea what they do

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blacklilyzine.bsky.social @blacklilyzine.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

And here’s a thread of snippets from our first two issues

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blacklilyzine.bsky.social @blacklilyzine.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Hey y’all. We’re a smol, still new goth/punk/antifascist print-only zine. If you want to put your angst about this shit into art/poetry/fiction/CNF/flash/or hybrid firms, please and sit to us. We’re open til 4/1. It’s a small thing we’re doing but I hope it helps. Submission guidelines below:

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blacklilyzine.bsky.social @blacklilyzine.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Saturday seems like the perfect day to send us your weirds. Check us out in the thread below. Last entry = submission guidelines.

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blacklilyzine.bsky.social @blacklilyzine.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

If you like what you see & will be at AWP Los Angeles, I @bettysueblue.bsky.social will be there with as many as I can carry. Couldn’t afford a table but hmu.

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Black Lily is so awesome and this whole issue is amazing--was so glad to be part of it! Their sub windows is now open!

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blacklilyzine.bsky.social @blacklilyzine.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Here’s how I package the zines. Yes, that’s a lily of the valley seal. It’s both beautiful and poisonous.

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Lauren Dostal @doslauren.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Don’t you want to be a part of the next Black Lily?

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blacklilyzine.bsky.social @blacklilyzine.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

1. Here’s a thread of snippets & previews from our 1st two issues in case you wondered what we’re all about. Open for subs until 4/1.

Issue one’s cover is a line drawing of a skull w all sorts of flora & fauna growing out of it. It’s printed on lavender paper.

Contributors include:
Heather Bell Adams
Aly Bair
Julie Brooks Barbour
DeMisty D. Bellinger
Chloe N Clark
Scott L. Ferry
Alison L. Fraser
James R. Gapinski
Hannah Grieco
Amy Halloran
Court Harler
Abigail Kemske
Paul Luikart
Natalie Marino
Jude Marr
Shawnte Orion
Pedro Ponce
Steph Post
Kimberly Ann Priest
Rachel Reeher
Vincent Rendoni
Constance Renfrow
Catherine Rockwood
Marsha Timbin
Donna Vorreyer
Kim Weldin
Cassie Williams

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blacklilyzine.bsky.social @blacklilyzine.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Are you a writer or artist who hates fascism & loves goth/punk vibes/stories? Send us your stuff. We need bold, brave submissions to make this thing! And hey, if you’re going to AWP & want to snag a copy of Issues 1 & 2 our publisher/EIC @bettysueblue.bsky.social will be there w all she can carry!

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blacklilyzine.bsky.social @blacklilyzine.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Issue 2 w cover & packaging. Ain’t she pretty?!

A zine w a skeleton horse drawing on the cover lying on black envelopes w a wax lily of the valley seal. Designed by Troy Palmer. Handmade by me @bettysueblue

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blacklilyzine.bsky.social @blacklilyzine.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Oof. My heart. Farewell Lonely Planet Boy. ✨🖤✨

A screenshot of the Rolling Stone tribute to the recently deceased David Johansen, front man of New York Dolls.

My comments: Light a candle & throw on some glitter for David Johansen & maybe watch the doc, New York Doll. And if you're a fan, maybe write/ make something inspired by him & send it my way at Black Lily Zine (email:
blacklilyzine@gmail.com max 2,500 words, 5 poems/art pieces

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blacklilyzine.bsky.social @blacklilyzine.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

And heyyy, if you have any fiction/poetry/art inspired by the punk af Irving from Severance, hoo boy would I love to see it! Max 2,500 words/5 poems/art pieces.

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blacklilyzine.bsky.social @blacklilyzine.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

And heyyy, if you have any fiction/poetry/art inspired by the punk af Irving from Severance, hoo boy would I love to see it! Max 2,500 words/5 poems/art pieces.

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blacklilyzine.bsky.social @blacklilyzine.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Oof. My heart. Farewell Lonely Planet Boy. ✨🖤✨

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Lauren Dostal @doslauren.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Reminder that I am currently reading for this beautiful, raging print-only zine. Full submission guidelines in the alt-text. Visit @blacklilyzine.bsky.social for more info on what we’re looking for!!

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I don’t know what to say if you disagree with me here. Go read June Jordan. Natalie Diaz. Stephanie Burt. Eugenio Montale. Upfromsumdirt. Get out there and read.

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blacklilyzine.bsky.social @blacklilyzine.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Please welcome our 3rd reader for our summer solstice issue! Submission guidelines in ALT.

A black background w the phases of the moon reads: My focus for writing is trying to answer that "so what" question of why it was written. If the work attempts to answer that -- wonderful -- whether it be magical realism, imagistic, Southern gothic, or political. I love heart. I love sincerity with craft, and work that checks the pulse of today.
A diversity of voices is always welcome.

Bio: Terri McCord is a poet living in South Carolina. Her most recent published book is The Beauts with Finishing Line Press. She has work forthcoming from the Coast Lines anthology, Westchester Review, Querencia Press, Gargoyle, and New Square Review. Her work has earned Pushcart Nominations and two Best of the Net nominations (including 2025). More
info. is available on the Poets & Writers.

Submission guidelines: please send up to 5 poems, up to 3 micros/flashes/hybrids max 1,000 words total, one story or essay up to 2,500 words, and up to 5 pieces of visual art as an attachment (.docx, google docs, PDFs are prob best) with a short bio to blacklilyzine@gmail.com. Swipe through these cards for more ideas of what me & the readers are looking for. If you had work in Issue 2, please hang back on this one. And hey, if you haven’t ordered either issue, you might want to see what we’re all about. $8 each or both for $14 (+ shipping which is usually around $4.15 for media mail)

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