“A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.”
— Franz Kafka

Black Flowers is an online arts journal. Edited and curated by Katie Doherty - it explores the intersection of literature, visual art, and magic.

The journal dances between the beautiful and the grotesque, the magic and the mundane, the body and the soul. It employs themes of symbolism, literature, art and the dichotomy of the psyche.

Our History

Black Flowers began in 2020 as an artistic antidote to the pandemic, a place to share visual and textual matter. As time went on, it became a fully-fledged online arts journal. It is also home to a small press that curates and publishes underground and outsider poetry.

Publications

Katie Doherty - Altars

The Black Editions Collection:

Pete Donohue – victims
Violetta Leigh – Night Paces
Niklas Stephenson - Weltschmerz