Review: AN EXTRAORDINARY THEORY OF OBJECTS by Stephanie LaCava
An Extraordinary Theory of Objects Stephanie LaCava 2012 Harper Collins 224 pages Review by ETHEL ROHAN What is most exceptional about Stephanie LaCava’s memoir The Extraordinary Theory of Objects is that it contains little of Stephanie LaCava. Through story,...
Call for Nonfiction Submissions
WHAT WE WANT: We want your NONFICTION. We want all your tiny pieces splotched on the floor for us to examine. We want you to examine your own pieces (or someone else’s) and arrange them in an aesthetically attractive order that is as true as spit and just as meaty. We...
Winners and Finalists of our Eighth Annual Contest
We’re pleased to announce the winners and finalists of our eighth annual contest. Our nonfiction judge, Maggie Nelson, selected this year's Nonfiction Winner: Shena McAuliffe for "Endnotes to a Seizure" Nonfiction Finalists: Seth Morgan Abigail Loar Camellia Freeman...
An Interview with Joanna Klink
Interview by AB GORHAM Black Warrior Review: Joanna, often, in grad school, we’re (students) reminded to keep our audience in mind while composing, revising, reciting our work. Can you identify your audience, as in, do you have a particular reader in mind when you...
2012 Contest: An Interview with Fiction Judge Mary Caponegro
Interview by DARA EWING What I love about Mary Caponegro is her delight in scenes or moments that might pass unnoticed had she not slowed them down, zoomed in, and provided them with the attention they never knew they deserved. She admits that fabulist writing is the...
Contest 2012: An Interview with Poetry Judge Sabrina Orah Mark
Interview by LAURA KOCHMAN I am so excited, because Sabrina Orah Mark is our poetry contest judge this year. You should probably be excited, too--she's the author of The Babies and Tsim Tsum, both from Saturnalia Books, and you can find her work in Best American...
2012 Contest: An Interview with Nonfiction Judge Maggie Nelson
Interview by BARRY GRASS Black Warrior Review's annual nonfiction contest might not be very old, but it's already established a tradition of being judged by the best names in literary nonfiction writing. Lia Purpura judged our inaugural nonfiction contest, and John...
Review: SKIN HORSE by Olivia Cronk
Skin Horse Olivia Cronk 2012 Action Books 72 pages Review by MATTHEW MAHANEY As others have pointed out, Skin Horse is not your standard book of poems, first or otherwise. This is not surprising if you’ve read Olivia Cronk’s poems in various journals over the past few...
Congratulations to Our SLS Contest Winners
The 2012 Unified Literary Contest was by far the largest and strongest of any SLS contest, with over 1600 entries received from every corner of North America, Europe, and beyond. Congratulations to the winners, and all who...
Issue 38.2, The Umbrella Issue, is now available!
Our Spring/Summer 2012 issue features the winners of our Seventh-Annual Contest, Nicholas Gulig, Harry Leeds, and Janice Lee, along with new writing from Martin Rock, Julia Madsen, Laura Eve Engel, Jenny Hanning, Megan Martin, Alex Taylor, Billy Longino, Steven...