Curves of light swirl through the glass of her half-primer, half-blue Pontiac.
—Deana Nantz, Junction 30
Danny follows a yelp down the alley, buckhorn battering his kneecaps. Ellery drifts behind him.
—William Haas, Furbearers
Sullen, Eugene raises a shotglass to his mouth, mumbling into the rim.
—Ian Singleton, Her Pictures of the South
Fiddleblack is a small press and literary journal
We are many things but first we are a curator. Fiddleblack is an effort to sustain literature and intellectual culture through the publication of works that feed our mission. Yes, we’re ists who like isms. Foremost, this is a place for two who’ve always been intertwined: the writer and the reader. We’re always looking for good representations of both.
Small Press
Fiddleblack designs, prints and markets short runs of physical and electronic books, sold through this website and others.
Literary Journal
Fiddleblack releases digital issues once every season, through this website. Once a year we sell an annual edition in print format.
What We Publish
Fiddleblack accepts literary fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction. We’re sometimes interested in cultural criticism as well.
There’s nothing so uncommon or daring about this. We as readers and writers, self-stated intellectuals, can only expect to interest and sustain ourselves. Consider Fiddleblack an outpost. We’re a body not here just for the edgewise word, but to produce out of love what we think, yet cannot find through other venues.
© 2012 Fiddleblack ltd