Botanical Erotica. Land-Listening Lit. Devotional Dirt.

Black Thumb Press

We Publish What Grows in the Dark

Black Thumb Press is the literary offspring of Wild & Tame—our Los Angeles garden studio rooted in edible landscapes, porch rituals, and land-listening.

We publish botanical erotica, field journals, and devotional dirt. These aren’t just zines. They’re pollinations. Spores. Offerings.

Some of our stories bloom from soil. Others come whispered through the fence line. We make room for desire, decay, and sacred surrender.

We do not believe in perfection. We believe in transformation.

Submit your garden-haunted stories, your chlorophyll dreams, your femme mythologies.

Submissions

  • Black Thumb Press publishes work that grows in the dark—literature rooted in sensuality, mystery, ritual, and land-based devotion.

    We’re interested in:

    • Botanical erotica and ecological intimacy

    • Mystical horror, sacred grotesque, soft hauntings

    • Mythology, folklore, speculative nonfiction

    • Devotional essays, ritual guides, and hybrid forms

    • Garden journals, photo essays, annotated dreams

    We accept fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid work, and visual formats. Zines, broadsides, and experimental structures are welcome.

    We publish slowly. Like spores. Like moss. Like memory.

    Send a short note about yourself and up to 10 pages or images.
    Email: pitch@wildandtame.co

  • A NOTE FROM THE SOIL

    Black Thumb Press is the feral imprint of Wild & Tame, our real-world garden company rooted in edible landscapes, porch rituals, and land-based devotion. We grow with our hands. We write with our dirt. And we do not believe in one kind of thumb, one kind of story, or one kind of pleasure. To plant is to publish. To publish is to remember. Every zine is a seed. Every story is an offering. You can visit our gardens. You can read our myths. Some offerings are soil. Some are paper. All are sacred.

CHLOROPHYLL: Chronicles of the Devouring Garden

An erotic jungle narrative of surrender and transformation.

Found journals. Botanical hallucinations. Sacred hunger.

Editor’s Note

CHLOROPHYLL did not arrive as a story. It came as a vine through the window.

At first, I thought I was writing about plants. But the more I followed the thread, the more it became a study in surrender. In what happens when you let something devour you—not to harm, but to transform.

This zine is a relic of that process. A fever dream in botanical ink. A permission slip to turn over, root down, and bloom strangely.

If you’ve ever felt undone in the presence of a flower, this is for you.

Wild & Tame / Black Thumb Press