Bone & Ink is now open for submissions for our October issue. Submissions will be open for this issue from September 15, 2018 to October 24, 2018 at 11:59 p.m. PDT, and will be published on the site beginning October 1 and going until October 31. Depending on how many submissions we get/accept, I plan to publish at least one piece per day, if not more. We’re also always open for non-themed submissions, but those will not be published until vol. 7 opens in November. For this i

Every woman has her Pensacola, that shorthand of, “Oh, me too. I know who you are.” -Elisabeth Horan The poems in Pensacola Girls are about abuse and trauma. They’re about the things men often (too often) do to women and children: make them prey, turn their bodies into playthings or objects of derision (depending on their mood), then blame the women, the girls, for their leers and jeers. It is about how men turn women mad, then hope they can Rochester their way out of it by l

They kick me out and tell me to take you with me. Of course, of course, I have to take you with me. Your mid-century modern is trashed with vomit. Your hair is matted and your lipstick smeared into your cheek. I am all out of pity and gods to please you with. They took all the food and fucking with them anyway. They said, no, really, this is excessive, even by our standards—and if you think we’re going to open the door when you knock once more, you better have a believable st

Bone & Ink Press, in collaboration with dancing girl press, presents: Riding with Anne Sexton, a chapbook by Jen Rouse. *** Here we are, darling, in the car. Vodka fresh and radio blaring. I know the bottom of that glass like I know god—and neither ends or begins in me, but I go on and you remain. Cherry red, lipstick-stained cigarette, and your name against my name. Anne. And this pain. That curls up on the leather beside you and calls you home. -from “Riding with Anne Sexto

I am so, so stoked to announce the titles I will be publishing and helping to publish over the next year. I believe heavy in all of these writers and their words, and I am beyond honored that they’re trusting me and my little baby press to help put their work into your hands. Publication dates and preorders will be posted as soon as they’re available. About the anthology: I already know what the theme will be, I just don’t want to post it until I put up the official call for

Click on the cover images to read or download volumes 1 & 2 of Bone & Ink. #boneandinkpress #ezine #indielit #vol1 #vol2

Introducing: the new, snazzy digital magazine version of Bone & Ink. Now, as each volume wraps, I will release it in its complete form, instead of just linking to the individual posts. Vol. 3 is available right now. Click the cover image to read and/or download. Volumes 1 and 2 will be available very soon. #vol3 #boneandinkpress #ezine #indielit #poetry #jasonbates #jenrouse #kjgeisler #betsyhousten #carlyanneravnikar #bryoncherry #constanceschultz #teresakmiller #solanarose

The Bone & Ink press blog is now open for the May/June/July themes, as well as non-themed submissions, and essays about art, literature, and film. May/June/July themes: pride (As in: June is Pride Month, y’all. Looking for themes of LGBTQ+ness, in all of their glory, horror, beauty, and grime.) midsummer and/or A Midsummer Night’s Dream (subverting) patriotism (Do you consider yourself a patriot, but not for the usual reasons/in the usual way? Or are you completely anti-patri

...and that's a wrap for Vol. 2! Here's the complete list, so you can more easily revisit individual pieces: Legend, by Courtney LeBlanc A Japanese legend says if you can’t sleep it’s because you’re awake in someone else’s dream. Featured Writer: Courtney LeBlanc A Love Song In Four Bars, by Jessie Lynn McMains It’s just you’re so pretty when yr putty, yr so damaged like a fist to a mirror. Sir Math, by Kelly Sexton And I almost fucked you, after the dirty talk about the fact

Things have changed a bit here at the Bone & Ink Press blog-o-zine. I am now accepting open-ended blog submissions along with submissions for the monthly themes. What do I mean by open-ended blog submissions? I mean: submissions that still follow the general guidelines, ethos, and aesthetics of Bone & Ink Press, but that don't fit any of the monthly themes. I am also accepting submissions of essays about the art, literature, and film that inspires you. Read on for more info.

I’m very excited to introduce our first featured writer, Courtney LeBlanc, whose poem Legend, was the first poem in vol. 2 of the Bone & Ink Press blog-zine. Courtney is the author of the chapbooks All in the Family (Bottlecap Press) and The Violence Within (Flutter Press) and is an MFA candidate at Queens University of Charlotte. Her poetry is published or forthcoming in Public Pool, Rising Phoenix Review, The Legendary, Germ Magazine, Quail Bell Magazine, Brain Mill Press,