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A Black man in a green tank top and black pants holds a crumpled balloon with a smiley against a dreamy purple sky. At his, he has a palm placed over a bright orange with its cross-section facing the viewer. The overall atmosphere is dreamy and colorful. At the top left corner is the following text: BLACK WARRIOR REVIEW FALL/WINTER 2024 51.1

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Evans Akanyijuka

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Exclusive Online Feature: “😵‍💫🤢🤮” by Cameron McLeod Martin

by Chinaecherem Obor | March 8, 2025 | Feature, Online Edition | 0 Comments

One of my teachers is always talking about wanting to press their body into language, something like that, asking us to think about how we can press our bodies into language, and I never know how to answer that question, what I’m supposed to do, which I think is kind of the point, but emoji were right there the whole time. Bodies translated into bits, bytes, little standardized cartoons.

Interview with a Masthead: Meet the New BWR Editors

by Chinaecherem Obor | February 6, 2025 | Feature, Interviews | 0 Comments

Every year, the BWR masthead changes hands. To give our readers and contributors a chance to get to know us a little better, each new editorial team completes an annual interview for our website. We submit questions to each other & answer each other’s questions in turn. Keep reading to learn about which editor would rather kill fiction than marry it, what food our editors absolutely do not want to run out of in the apocalypse, and what part of the editorial process our editors love the most.

“when she does hit it, she hits it out of the park”: An Interview with Exquisite Armantè, author of “Ulta Receipt”

by Samantha Bolf | December 7, 2024 | Interviews, News, Nonfiction Print | 0 Comments

Exquisite Armantè is a writer planted in Atlanta, cultivated at Louisiana State University, and transplanted to an MFA program at Oklahoma State University. Her work has been featured in Taypedia, Scrawl Place, Hobart Pulp, and forthcoming at Black Warrior Review. You...

Exclusive Online Feature: “Ulta Receipt” by Exquisite Armantè

by Samantha Bolf | December 7, 2024 | Contributor Updates, Feature, Issues, Nonfiction Print | 0 Comments

"Ulta Receipt" by Exquisite Armantè is featured in the forthcoming Black Warrior Review issue 51.1, which is scheduled to hit shelves this month! We’re thrilled to showcase the full-color version of Exquisite’s work here online, highlighting the vivid detail and...

“that idea of the shimmering moment”: A Conversation with Kelly Lenox, author of “After a Guided Meditation on Self-Confidence”

by Samantha Bolf | December 6, 2024 | Interviews, News, Nonfiction Print | 0 Comments

Kelly Lenox (The Brightest Rock, 2017) writes poetry and prose in Oregon. Her work appears in Poetry Daily, Cold Mountain, RHINO, EcoTheo Review and elsewhere in the U.S. and Europe. She is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, with an MFA from Vermont College...