Who we are:
The Black Unicorn Press is a network of dreamers, writers, artists, musicians, bakers, farmers, teachers, students, nerds, and others that collaborate with one another in the quest to transform the products of our labor into gifts—gifts that express our commitment to struggle together in making survival something beautiful.
At our core, we are people who make things without telling others to make them for us.
Our agents and collective members are currently spread out around the globe pursuing their agendas. To contact an agent of Black Unicorn Press about publishing projects, events that you are interested in facilitating, or general comments or questions about the press, please email us at: blackunicornpress@gmail.com
Where have we been?
The Black Unicorn Press began in Kirksville, MO, 2005, as a name to give legitimacy to a collective of agents working with the Missouri Prisoner’s Labor Union to publish their quarterly newsletter, Off the Hook, and distribute it, and other material internationally to folks inside and outside the Prison Industrial Complex. The Black Unicorn Press continued working with the MPLU for 3 years before communication between the two organizations became strained. The Black Unicorn Press has continued to publish zines, comics, chapbooks, broadsheets, novellas, instruction manuals and strangely shaped novels ever since.
The Black Unicorn Press’ full archive has been lost to fire, flood and the catastrophe of time. If you have evidence of any past projects, it would bring us great pleasure to receive evidentiary photographs and stories of these publications out in the universe to the email address listed above. If you give us permission, we would love to share these stories and pictures here on our website.