FEATURE
Exclusive Online Feature: “😵💫🤢🤮” by Cameron McLeod Martin
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
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.
Exclusive Online Feature: “Ulta Receipt” by Exquisite Armantè
"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...
Exclusive Online Feature: “After a Guided Meditation on Self-Confidence” by Kelly Lenox
Kelly Lenox's fantastic nonfiction piece, "After a Guided Meditation on Self-Confidence," was published in BWR's fiftieth issue (50.1), in January of 2024. Read more about Kelly & her writing below! Kelly Lenox (The Brightest Rock, 2017) writes poetry and...
Exclusive Online Feature: “The Ohio Grassman Goes to Costco” by BWR’s 2024 Creatures Contest Runner-Up, Connor Harding
THE OHIO GRASSMAN GOES TO COSTCO The Ohio Grassman is having a bit of an identity crisis. Not in the clinical sense—he’s regularly attending therapy and practicing his active listening skills. In the mornings he whispers his mantras into the river moss and...
Exclusive Online Feature: “Mix-Tape Obituary” by BWR’s 2024 Creatures Contest Runner-Up, Christopher David Rosales
MIX-TAPE OBITUARY It sounds backwards, based on your reputation, but you don’t go to the liquor store, you head to aisle twelve of Northgate Market. That’s where it goes down, El No Sé Qué—The I Don’t Know What. You’re talking about some sci-fi grip—Big Sis was...
Exclusive Online Feature: “Rabbit Moon, Lake Nighthorse” by BWR’s 2024 Creatures Contest Runner-Up, Elizabeth Bowling
RABBIT MOON, LAKE NIGHTHORSE Glassine, the surface in which mountain and moon reflect. My lake. A soft one comes to the water’s edge, pad-pad pad... one-two three, a crooked waltz. I recognize the cadence, the long ears that shift toward any slight sound....
Exclusive Online Feature: “Yamabiko” by BWR’s 2024 Creatures Contest Winner, Amber Adams
YAMABIKO 山彦 For two months, my brother lived with the yamabiko. When initial search-and-rescue efforts turned up empty-handed, the yamabiko understood that my brother, buried, was going to be a guest on his mountain until the weather conditions changed. In his...
“erring on the end of overflowing beauty”: A Discussion with Chigozie Obioma, Author of The Road to the Country
Chigozie Obioma was born in Akure, Nigeria. His two novels, The Fishermen (2015) and An Orchestra of Minorities (2019) were shortlisted for The Booker Prize, making him one of only two novelists to be shortlisted for all their works. They have won about a dozen prizes...
“tentatively eking their way towards hope”: An Interview with Kathryne David Gargano, Author of Pentimenti
Kathryne David Gargano (she/they) is a queer, Jewish writer interested in myth, retellings, art, and religion. They received their PhD in English & Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, where they served as the Managing Editor of Cream...