Black Warrior Review

2014 Contest: An Interview with Nonfiction Winner Landon Houle

by Black Warrior Review | Jun 1, 2015 | Archive, Interviews

Born in Brown County, TX, Landon Houle currently lives in South Carolina and works as an editor at In Fact Books. She is a winner of Permafrost’s Midnight Sun fiction contest and Crab Creek Review’s fiction contest, and her essay “The Plains We...

2014 Contest: An Interview with Poetry Winner Curtis Rogers

by Black Warrior Review | May 11, 2015 | Archive, Interviews

Curtis Rogers received his MFA in poetry from NYU’s creative writing program. His writing has appeared in The Literary Review, Coconut, cream city review, DIAGRAM, Painted Bride Quarterly, and elsewhere. Currently, he works and lives in Washington, D.C....

National Poetry Month: EXO-SECRETARIAT by Blake Lee Pate

by Black Warrior Review | May 1, 2015 | Archive, Feature

This year, for national poetry month, we asked our assistant poetry editors to pick a favorite poem published by BWR, write a little bit about why they liked it, and record themselves reading it aloud. “Blake Lee Pate’s ‘Exo-Secretariat’ tackles...

2014 Contest: An Interview with Fiction Winner Michael Mau

by Black Warrior Review | Apr 27, 2015 | Archive, Interviews

Michael Mau’s short fiction has appeared in Mount Hope, Firewords Quarterly, Subtopian, Ferocious Quarterly, and other places. His story “Best Launderette” was selected by guest editor Pam Houston for the Fall 2014 edition of Fifth Wednesday Journal....

National Poetry Month: JACKET COPY FOR ‘THE COP FOLLOWED FRANK INTO THE DINER’ by Adam Atkinson

by Black Warrior Review | Apr 24, 2015 | Archive, Feature

This year, for national poetry month, we asked our assistant poetry editors to pick a favorite poem published by BWR, write a little bit about why they liked it, and record themselves reading it aloud. “Jacket Copy for The Cop Followed Frank Into...