Submission Theme: My Bloody Valentine
a PUNK NOIR Magazine series for February 2025
THIS SUBMISSION DEADLINE HAS NOW CLOSED. You can read the entire My Bloody Valentine series, here.
Well, naturally. It’s February, the month for crimes of passion. Can you write about a Crime of passion in under one hundred words?
Yep, 100 words MAX.
This month is doubling down and leveling up.
(All pieces MUST be in a Word Doc w/a 3rd person BIO)
Subs Open April 1st until January 30th, 2025
SUBMIT HERE
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Series Editor: Stephen J. Golds
Stephen J. Golds was born in North London, U.K, but has lived in Japan for most of his life. He speaks the language pretty well and makes great takoyaki.
He writes primarily in the noir and dirty realism genres and is the editor-in-chief of Punk Noir Press. Some of his writing influences are Charles Bukowski, John Fante, James M. Cain, Tobias Wolff, Sarah Kane and Jim Thompson.
He enjoys spending time with his daughters, reading books, traveling the world, boxing and listening to old Soul LPs. His books are Say Goodbye When I’m Gone, I’ll Pray When I’m Dying, Always the Dead, and Shadows Slow Dancing in Derelict Rooms. His poetry collections are Poems for Ghosts in Empty Tenement Windows I Thought I Saw Once, and Half-Empty Doorways and Other Injuries. He also has a short story and poetry collection titled Love Like Bleeding Out With an Empty Gun in Your Hand.
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