41.1 Feature: An Interview with Simeon Berry
Simeon Berry lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, where he serves on the Board of Directors for Salamander. He has been an associate editor for Ploughshares, and won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant and a Career Chapter Award from the National...
41.1 Feature: Three Questions with Jaime Netzer, MH Rowe, Robin Tung, and Dustin Zamora
Jaime Netzer's fiction has appeared in Parcel and Twelve Stories, and has been recognized by Arcadia as an honorable mention in its second-annual short story contest. She holds an MFA from Texas State University, where she was the 2012-2013 L.D. and LaVerne Harrell...
41.1 Feature: An Interview with Sarah Minor
Sarah Minor recently earned her MFA in nonfiction from the University of Arizona in Tucson, where she currently teaches and works as a visual artist and essayist. Her work has appeared online at Word Riot and in print at Conjunctions, and is forthcoming in South Look...
41.1 Feature: An Interview with Joe Milazzo
Joe Milazzo is the author of the chapbook The Terraces (Das Arquibancadas and Little Red Leaves Textile Series) and the novel Crepuscule W / Nellie (Jaded Ibis Productions). He co-edits the online interdisciplinary arts journal [out of nothing] and is also the...
2013 Contest: A Look Back at Fiction Winner Mari Christmas
Mari Christmas is pursuing an MFA at the University of Notre Dame. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Canary Press and Paragraphiti. Baby by Mari Christmas “I didn’t agree to do this.” Let’s try this again. Let’s take it from the street corner. ...
Book ‘Em and the Books to Prisons Project: August 2 in Northport!
Black Warrior Review is thrilled to join the Books to Prisons Project at its first-ever book event in West Alabama. Book ‘Em: a gathering of authors and readers will take place at the Northport Civic Center on Saturday, August 2, 2014 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Among the...
2014 Contest: An Interview with Nonfiction Judge Kiese Laymon
Interview by CONNOR O'NEILL Black Warrior Review: You published a book of essays and a novel last year--were you working on these simultaneously? How do you decide when to work on NF and when to write fiction? Kiese Laymon: Yeah. I worked on both at the same time. At...
Fiction Reading Period Closing August 1st
After much consideration, we at Black Warrior Review have made the decision to close our 2014 general fiction submissions on August 1st. Contest submissions will remain open till September 1st. We know that fiction submissions only recently re-opened; however, in the...
2014 Contest: An Interview with Poetry Judge Richard Siken
Richard Siken’s poetry collection Crush won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, a Lambda Literary Award, the Thom Gunn Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, Conjunctions, Indiana...
2014 Contest: An Interview with Fiction Judge Lily Hoang
Lily Hoang is the author of four books, including Changing, recipient of a PEN Open Books Award. Her choose-your-own adventure love story is forthcoming with 1913 Press. With Blake Butler, she edited 30 Under 30, and with Joshua Marie Wilkinson, she edited The Force...