PUNK NOIR MAGAZINE is currently CLOSED for submissions. The doors will hopefully open again after the summer. In the meantime, have a gander through the archives. There’s loads of good stuff there.
Mr Whatever, Denise And Me by Ian Lewis Copestick
It must be getting on for 20 years ago now, but I’ll never forget it. I’d just been to score some smack, there was a McDonald’s not far from the dealer’s house so I decided to get a burger and a coffee before I got a taxi home. As I left the McDonald’s I heard…
The Bayou Boobie Blues By Jesse “Heels” Rawlins
An hour after sunrise. And I didn’t smell my finest. I tugged the jangling door to Cajun Queen Cafe—and a blast of sharp AC jammed the stink thru my nose—square into my brain. But hey, not my fault. I’d spent the dim wee hours tossing Ezekiel Daniel Boone (in hearty twelve-inch-chunks) to a brood of…
Bad Blood and Bad luck By Gareth Spark
The north wind blew dust off the coal yard against the rusted door of the car. Jack rested against the vehicle and felt the cold metal through the thin denim of his jacket. He shook tobacco from a dented tin into paper trembling in the breeze, then licked and made the cigarette, scraped a match…
Tinder Hearted Holidays by John Patrick Robbins
The man in the mirror was one harsh looking son of a bitch. And after a particularly bad spell of praying to the porcelain God he questioned why the hell he kept doing this to himself. It was the fourth of July and Frank had learned to loathe the day. It was a…
Steve Ignorant by Paul Matts
One of the most important aspects of the punk rock revolution was the liberation it provided. Liberation in music. Liberation in fashion. Liberation in art. It truly kicked open doors in the culture of the 1970s and ushered in a new dawn of excitement and opportunity for those willing and wanting to embrace it….
Recommended Reads: Swierczynski, Lauden, Black.
Canary by Duane Swierczynski A teenage girl is arrested by the police and becomes an informant. Fast moving, smart, funny and touching, Canary is an action-packed joy. That’ll Be The Day: A Power Pop Heist by SW Lauden Straight out of the slammer, a former musician sets out to steal a rare Beatles single. Pistol…
3 Poems by Dane Smith
I ACHE I ache. Headache from cheap wine,arms hurt frompushing myself up time and again,back spasmsfrom fucking heragainst the wall,her legs wrappedaround my back,arms tight about my necklike I was life itselfshe was holding onto. These are my pains.Not so terrible,not so bad that I will refuse to existnot so cruelthat I cannot laugh at tender-heartedassholes who want to change me.A…
Fighting The Odds by Ian Copestick
When you’re trying To be a writer, and Things aren’t going Your way, it can Sometimes feel that Nobody else has been Through the same Kind of Hell that you Are traversing. Last Night I read for the First time Saroyan And his “Daring Young Man…” It helps to know That there have Been more….
The Bear By Gareth Spark
A Polar Bear roamed one night in the woods behind Whitby. Here’s the story: the explorer Scoresby brought a bear cub back from one of his travels to the frozen north and chained the beast beneath Spital Bridge where it grew fat on a diet of captured seagulls, fish heads and whatever stray critters it…
