Only A Month Left to Enter!
Put a pot of coffee on the stove, turn your phone’s ringer off, and plug in that laptop: there is only one month left to send your best poetry, fiction, and nonfiction to our ninth-annual contest! All entries must be submitted by September 1, and all entrants...
2013 Contest: An Interview with Nonfiction Judge Jenny Boully
Interview by LEIA PENINA WILSON Black Warrior Review: If you were to be trapped/stuck/magically transported (or synonym of choice) in a fairytale, which fairytale would it be? I’m always irrationally afraid I’ll be transported (you know because of magic) into some...
2013 Contest: An Interview with Poetry Judge Kate Durbin
Interview by ANNE BRETTELL Black Warrior Review: What was it that initially got you interested in poetry? What aspect of “the poem” grabbed you as an art form? Kate Durbin: I can think of two instances in which poetry grabbed me by the throat and...
2013 Contest: An Interview with Fiction Judge Brian Evenson
Interview by JAKE KINSTLER Black Warrior Review: Both Fugue State and your new book Windeye are self-contained and complete works interested in (it seems to me) how story collections can function as a singular artistic work. In Fugue State, there are repeated themes...