Open Call for Submissions: Vestiges_07: Catachresis
Black Sun Lit is now accepting submissions for the seventh volume of Vestiges: Catachresis. To wilt tears for an infatuation who has no name of their own. To weep rain like a sentence that passes through the unrequited glimpse. Language is the instrument of our shivers, literature the wink that slips into a wince... Read More
Introducing So-Lair Storm by Andrés Ajens, forthcoming July 9, 2024
Preorders for Andrés Ajens’s So-Lair Storm are now available. A poetry of articulation and dis/articulation, of artifice, of disengagement and dismemberment, So-Lair Storm moves between broken narratives, different materialities (letters, emails, diary fragments), critical essay, and experience... Read More
Black Sun Lit / Asterism Books [REVISED]
Black Sun is excited to announce a new distribution partnership with Asterism Books. Currently, all issues of Vestiges (that remain in print) are now available from Asterism. All titles previously distributed by Small Press Distribution are in the process of being shipped to the Asterism warehouse... Read More
Introducing Dead End by Michel Surya, forthcoming October 17, 2023
Preorders for Michel Surya’s Dead End are now available. Dead End is a sinuous pornographic work that forms a part of Michel Surya’s series of erotic books released in France over the past four decades. This translation by Kit Schluter marks the debut of Surya’s fiction in the English language... Read More
Black Sun Lit & Black Square Editions at the 2023 AWP Conference and Bookfair
Black Sun Lit and Black Square Editions will be at the 2023 AWP Conference & Bookfair in Seattle, WA, March 8-11, at table T1411. No Material by Losarc Raal and Material Exercises by Blanca Varela (translated by Carlos Lara) will be available for purchase ahead of their publication date... Read More
Introducing No Material by Losarc Raal, forthcoming April 4, 2023
Preorders for Losarc Raal’s No Material are now available. In the full light of the world, I have actively hated the isolation of signs. But I’ve saved many lives with such. Dark waves of prey commingle with certain sleeves of risk... Read More
Introducing Material Exercises by Blanca Varela, forthcoming April 4, 2023
Preorders for Blanca Varela’s Material Exercises are now available. Flesh wounds, flies, flowers, and freedom. Blanca Varela’s Material Exercises is a declaration of divine oblivion vis-à-vis a violent mysticism... Read More
Introducing Suede Mantis / Soft Rage by Jennifer Soong, forthcoming October 11, 2022
Preorders for Jennifer Soong’s Suede Mantis / Soft Rage are now available. Swaying between command and curiosity, acquiescence and destruction, distance and proximity, Jennifer Soong’s Suede Mantis / Soft Rage proffers tenderness that teeters on the precipice of loss... Read More
Vestiges_06: Aporia Cover & Contributors Preview
Vestiges_06: Aporia will feature work from Ghérasim Luca, Will Alexander, Wayne Koestenbaum, Mary Ann Caws, Genya Turovskaya, Billie Chernicoff, Ted Rees, Jack Jung, Xeno Muir Pam Dick, Losarc Raal +more... Read More
Vestiges_06: Aporia deadline extended to May 15, 2022
Submissions for Vestiges_06: Aporia will remain open until May 15... Read More