The NOIR Issue

By Black Heart Magazine

Black Heart Magazine has been publishing new fiction online every Friday since 2008. Now enjoy the first of our new themed digital issues, The NOIR Issue, featuring heavyweights from the nouveau-crime genre including Christopher Benton, Dan O'Shea, Benjamin Sobieck, Stephen D. Rogers, Jonathan Woods and more.

Guest edited by crime fiction enthusiast and web writer extraordinaire Jimmy Callaway, this anthology of short fiction, poetry and noir-inspired artwork combines the best from newcomers and old-schoolers for a gritty guns-n-girls extravaganza.

Full contributors list:

WRITERS
Cameron Ashley
Christopher Benton
Josh Converse
Chris Deal
Garnett Elliott
Matthew C. Funk
James Gibbons
AJ Hayes
D.S. Jones
David Jordan
Nik Korpon
Alexander Kraft
Mary Long
Chuck Marecic
Richie Narvaez
Dan O'Shea
Dale Patterson
Keith Rawson
Stephen D. Rogers
Kieran Shea
Benjamin Sobieck
Leland Thoburn
Jonathan Woods
Changming Yuan

VISUAL ARTISTS
Nora Costello
Michael Fugere
Sophie Newman

COVER
Brian Roe
Ronda Pattison

GUEST EDITOR
Jimmy Callaway

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Laura Roberts

• Language: English
• Publisher: Buttontapper Press
• Release date: Jul 3, 2011
• ISBN: 9781452436944

Black Heart Magazine

Black Heart Magazine is an independent online literary magazine, transmitting tenacious text around the world at the speed of wifi. Since 2004, our site has been combating clichés and skipping straight to supercharged stories with a simple catchphrase: we heart art.We publish short fiction, poetry, indie book reviews, and a variety of creative nonfiction pieces, along with Susan Tepper's monthly "Let's Talk" column.Read our work online at BlackHeartMagazine.com.

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