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39.1 Fall/Winter 2012
Poetry Kelly Forsythe, Sarah V. Schweig, Diane Seuss, Marcela Sulak, David Ward, Jennifer Rosario Wong Fiction Ron A. Austin, Jessica Chrastil, Michael Czyzniejewski, Norman Lock, Ben Merriman, m k s...
View ArticleWinners and Finalists of our Eighth Annual Contest
We’re pleased to announce the winners and finalists of our eighth annual contest. Our nonfiction judge, Maggie Nelson, selected this year’s Nonfiction Winner: Shena McAuliffe for “Endnotes to a...
View ArticleCall for Nonfiction Submissions
WHAT WE WANT: We want your NONFICTION. We want all your tiny pieces splotched on the floor for us to examine. We want you to examine your own pieces (or someone else’s) and arrange them in an...
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Review: The Extraordinary Theory of Objects
Stephanie LaCava 224 pages Harper (December 4, 2012) Reviewed by ETHEL ROHAN What is most exceptional about Stephanie LaCava’s memoir The Extraordinary Theory of Objects is that it contains little of...
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Review: Manhater
Danielle Pafunda 64 pages Dusie Press Books (September 1, 2012) Reviewed by MATTHEW MAHANEY Manhater is a book in three sections. One could argue that these sections are distinct, each with its own...
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39.2 Spring/Summer 2013
Features the winner of our eighth-annual contest. Poetry Rachel Springer, Jade Benoit, Meghan M. Lee, Emily Anderson Fiction Evelyn Hampton, Vi Khi Nao, Patrick Coleman, Tasha Matsumoto Nonfiction...
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39.2 Spring/Summer 2013
Features the winner of our eighth-annual contest. Poetry Rachel Springer, Jade Benoit, Meghan M. Lee, Emily Anderson Fiction Evelyn Hampton, Vi Khi Nao, Patrick Coleman, Tasha Matsumoto Nonfiction...
View ArticleContest Now Open!
Ninth-Annual Contest Now Open All entries must be submitted by September 1, 2013. We’re honored to have as our guest judges: Kate Durbin (Poetry) Brian Evenson (Fiction/Prose) Jenny Boully (Nonfiction)...
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Review: Ventifacts
Christine Hume 54 pages Omnidawn Publishing (April 24, 2012) Reviewed by LAURA KOCHMAN Ventifacts moves much the way that wind does—invisibly, winding around and across the borders of various subjects,...
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A Summer Sale To Remember
Hold on to your literary pants (or laptop), BWR is having a summer sale. Most of our back issues are now online for only $5, and for those of you who love to live life on the edge–we’re talkin’ to you...
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An Interview with Brian Evenson, Judge of BWR’s 2013 Fiction/Prose Contest
By JAKE KINSTLER Black Warrior Review: Both Fugue State and your new book Windeye are self-contained and complete works interested in (it seems to me) how story collections can function as a singular...
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An Interview with Kate Durbin, Judge of BWR’s 2013 Poetry Contest
By ANNE BRETTELL Black Warrior Review: What was it that initially got you interested in poetry? What aspect of “the poem” grabbed you as an art form? Kate Durbin: I can think of two instances in which...
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An Interview with Jenny Boully, Judge of BWR’s 2013 Nonfiction Contest
By: LEIA PENINA WILSON Black Warrior Review: If you were to be trapped/stuck/magically transported (or synonym of choice) in a fairytale, which fairytale would it be? I’m always irrationally afraid...
View ArticleOnly A Month Left to Enter!
Put a pot of coffee on the stove, turn your phone’s ringer off, and plug in that laptop: there is only one month left to send your best poetry, fiction, and nonfiction to our ninth-annual contest! All...
View ArticleReview: Far From Sudden
Brent Goodman 60 pages Black Lawrence Press (March 19, 2013) By JOSH ENGLISH Brent Goodman’s second book Far From Sudden is broken up into four sections, “Gravity,” “Telemetry,” “Eventually,” and...
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Review: Pop Corpse
Lara Glenum 186 pages Action Books (May 1, 2013) By LAURENCE ROSS Lara Glenum’s book, we are told, is a “vocal prosthesis.” Pop Corpse is written in a voice that is unabashedly a stand-in for something...
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Review: The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands
Nick Flynn 84 pages Graywolf Press by THEODORA ZIOLKOWSKI Nick Flynn’s latest collection of poems, The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands, is a chilling journey from beginning to end, in which the...
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40.1 Fall/Winter 2013
Poetry Blake Lee Pate, Adam Atkinson, Lo Kwa Mei-en Fiction John Zackel, Shruti Swamy, Ben Roberts, Nick Francis Potter Nonfiction Adeena Reitberger, Chelsea Hodson, Julia Cohen Art Kelly Louise Judd...
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