Black Warrior Review

Review: THE LOST DAUGHTER COLLECTIVE by Lindsey Drager

by Black Warrior Review | Aug 14, 2017 | Archive, Reviews

The Lost Daughter Collective Lindsey Drager 2017 Dzanc Books 184 pages Review by EMRYS DONALDSON The Lost Daughter Collective by Lindsey Drager made me ache deep inside for all the daughters whose loss throbs in their families’ bodies. The gorgeous language and...

One Month Left to Submit to BWR’s 2017 Contests!

by Black Warrior Review | Aug 1, 2017 | News

Black Warrior Review is now accepting entries for our 2017 contests in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and the deadline to submit is September 1st. A winner in each genre receives $1,000 and publication in issue 44.2, due out in spring/summer 2018. One runner-up in...

Review: CHILDREN OF THE NEW WORLD by Alexander Weinstein

by Black Warrior Review | Jul 24, 2017 | Archive, Reviews

Children of the New World Alexander Weinstein 2016 Picador 226 pages Review by MAGGIE NYE Alexander Weinstein, director of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing and author of the technology-obsessed debut collection Children of the New Word, is a...

2017 Contest: An Interview with Flash Prose Judge Joyelle McSweeney

by Black Warrior Review | Jul 17, 2017 | Archive, Interviews

Joyelle McSweeney is the author of eight books of poems, fiction, drama and essays. Her writing chases an exuberant sound-infused hyperdiction through an array of genres, conventions, personae and forms. Her poetry books include The Red Bird, The...

From the Archives: fragments from RECONSOLIDATION by Janice Lee, 2012 Nonfiction Contest Winner

by Black Warrior Review | Jul 13, 2017 | Feature, Nonfiction Print

Click here for information about our 2017 contest. Janice Lee is the author of KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press, 2010), Daughter (Jaded Ibis, 2011), Damnation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2013), Reconsolidation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2015), and The Sky Isn’t Blue (Civil Coping...