Vacua Vita & Pitch Black Night Light out now
Vacua Vita & Pitch Black Night Light out now

About

At The Heavy Contortionist, founded in 2014 by Mark Anthony Cronin and JB Henry, we embrace the unwieldy and the sublime—publishing works of fiction, philosophy, and poetry that probe the boundaries of form and thought. Ours is a press born of necessity: a refusal to settle for the facile, the derivative, the inauthentic.

We are home to the unacknowledged masterpieces of the 21st century—works that defy easy categorization, demand reflection, and endure beyond the ephemeral churn of contemporary culture. Here, the written word is neither commodity nor comfort. It is an act of contortion—a bending, reshaping, and stretching toward truths otherwise obscured.