Website
Type Of Publisher
Online
Genres Published
Essays, Fiction, Poetry, Visual Art
Year Established
2017
Address
Buffalo, NY
Name
Tamara Burross Grisanti
Title
Editor-in-Chief
Email
Mission Statement / Editorial Focus
Dark times call for dark literature. Coffin Bell is a new quarterly online journal of dark literature seeking poetry, flash fiction, short stories, creative nonfiction, essays, and short criticism that explore dark themes. Unsettle us.
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions
Yes
Average Unique Visitors Per Month
1388
How Frequently Is Content Updated?
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Do You Have Any Cover Letter Advice?
Please include a THIRD PERSON bio (don’t use “I / my,” leaving us to guess your pronouns, use his / her / their, as in “her work can be found online at coffinbell.com.” Clearly restate your pseudonym if it differs from your Submittable name.
What Do You Look For In A Submission?
The beauty of the author’s relationship to language, solid prose free of typographical errors, clarity & ease of reading, originality, and—as Poe referred to his beauty Ligeia—“some strangeness in the proportion.”
What Advice Do You Have For First-time Submitters?
Don’t write your cover letter (or your queries!) in allcaps. Editors are sensitive to that.
Do You Have A Favorite Unsolicited Submission Discovery Or Anecdote?
My favorite “how did you hear about us?” answer in a submission is “I found a copy of COFFIN BELL: ONE in a barbershop in Scotland.”
Who Is Your Ideal Reader?
Anyone who appreciates the dark, gothic, horrific & beautiful in the literary.
