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Contest 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) Winners in each genre receive a $1,000 prize and publication in BWR...
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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 Garrett J. Brown, Shena McAuliffe, Noel Thistle Tague Comic Sam Alden Art Leslie...
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Review: Manhater
Manhater is a book in three sections. One could argue that these sections are distinct, each with its own speaker inhabiting a unique, post-human world. However, the more I read, the more I began to view Manhater as an account of Mommy V’s evolution...
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About
Black Warrior Review is named after the river that borders the campus of The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. The city, river, and journal derive their names from the sixteenth-century Indian chief Tuscaloosa, whose name comes from two words of Creek or Choctaw origin—tusca (warrior) and lusa (black).
Established in 1974 by graduate students in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Alabama, Black Warrior Review publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art …
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Mary Caponegro: Fiction/Prose Contest Judge
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Sabrina Orah Mark: Poetry Contest Judge
Laura Kochman
Review: Olivia Cronk: Skin Horse
Matthew Mahaney
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News
BWR’s Ninth-Annual Contest is Now Open!
All entries must be submitted by September 1, 2013.
Winners in each genre receive a $1,000 prize and publication in BWR 40.2, our Spring/Summer 2014 issue. Finalists receive notation in that issue and are considered for publication.
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