• 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... 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

    Open Call for Submissions: Vestiges_06: Aporia

    Black Sun Lit is now accepting submissions for the sixth volume of Vestiges: Aporia. Literature as an object of communicable comfort has long expired. Yet every instrument that serves as an appendage to voice and vision acts nonetheless as a reaching... Read More

    Introducing Fish Carcass by Vi Khi Nao, forthcoming April 5, 2022

    Preorders for Vi Khi Nao’s Fish Carcass are now available. Blending autobiographical truth with poetic invention, Vi Khi Nao’s Fish Carcass is a pointillist portrait that catalogs a tripartite digestion process of being-in-the-world... Read More