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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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Kristin Emanuel | Mariah Gese

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Special Online Feature: “Reva Speaks a New Dialect” by Fiction Contest Runner-up, Shastri Akella

by Chinaecherem Obor | April 24, 2025 | Archive, Feature | 0 Comments

Reva Speaks a New Dialectby Shastri AkellaBWR 2024 Fiction Contest Runner-upReva doesn’t get a bridal welcome: she hears neither shehnai nor danka when her palanquin is lowered in front of her husband’s house, and when she steps out, in place of a group of women...

“I very much hope to become some kind of fungus or moss when I die…” An Interview with Mariah Gese, Author of “Mold Vincit Omnia”

by Chinaecherem Obor | April 24, 2025 | Interviews, News, Nonfiction Print | 0 Comments

"I very much hope to become some kind of fungus or moss when I die..." An Interview with Mariah Gese, Author of "Mold Vincit Omnia" Mariah Gese is an artist and writer from a haunted swamp in New York. They received their MFA from Indiana University, where they were...

Exclusive Online Feature: “Mold Vincit Omnia” by Mariah Gese

by Chinaecherem Obor | April 3, 2025 | Feature, Online Edition | 0 Comments

Mold Vincit OmniaMariah Gesefrom BWR 51.1View mobile-friendly version here...“Mold Vincit Omnia” by Mariah Gese is featured in Black Warrior Review issue 51.1, now available in our store We’re thrilled to showcase the full-color version of Martin’s work here online,...

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.