Crow & Cross Keys is an online literary journal devoted to fiction and poetry with a dark, strange, and imaginative character. Its pages invite readers into worlds shaped by skeletal trees, tar-black feathers, calcified forests, and ramshackle castles, reflecting the journal’s interest in writing that is beautiful, eerie, and unconventional. The publication features poetry, flash fiction, and short stories, presenting both new work and selected pieces from its contributors.

Readers can explore featured poems and stories, including works that draw on folklore, ghosts, forests, memory, and unsettling everyday encounters. Crow & Cross Keys also welcomes submissions from writers who want to share their work and see it featured in the journal. Alongside its literary content, the site offers contributor information, submission details, and recommendations through its CCK Recommends section.

With an open invitation to take readers somewhere unexpected, Crow & Cross Keys provides a home for distinctive literary voices and imaginative writing that finds beauty in the dark and unusual