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45.2 Feature: Craft Essay by Ava Hofmann

by Black Warrior Review | Apr 30, 2019 | Feature

Originally from Oxford, Ohio, Ava Hofmann is a writer currently living and working as an MFA student in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She has poems published in or forthcoming from Black Warrior Review, Fence, Anomaly, Best American Experimental Writing 2020, Datableed, and...

45.2 Feature: An Interview with Amanda Kallis – 2018 BWR Nonfiction Contest Winner

by Black Warrior Review | Apr 15, 2019 | Feature, Interviews

Her work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review (2018 Nonfiction Contest Winner), Spillway, Prelude, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and The Cincinnati Review. She’s received fellowships from the Edward F. Albee Foundation and the...

45.2 Feature: An Interview with Ndinda Kioko – 2018 BWR Fiction Contest Winner

by Black Warrior Review | Mar 18, 2019 | Feature, Interviews

Ndinda Kioko is a Kenyan writer and filmmaker whose works have appeared on several platforms and publications including The Trans-African, BBC Radio 4, Wasafiri Magazine, Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara,and Jalada Africa. She has been awarded the...

45.1 Feature: My Mother Sees the Invisible by Gabriela Garcia

by Black Warrior Review | Jan 28, 2019 | Feature, Fiction Print

Her fiction and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Tin House, Zyzzyva, Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. She was awarded a 2018 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, served as the 2018...

45.1 feature: Laura Villareal reads 8 Chickens In A Papier Mache Human: A Bedtime Story

by Black Warrior Review | Jan 21, 2019 | Feature

8 chickens in a papier mache human: a bedtime story Laura Villareal from 45.1 for Alfredo Aguilar imagine if it was steam powered, the brass endoskeleton heaving. angled movements, rigid. 16 taloned feet pulling levers in tight precision. roiling clouds...

45.1 Feature: Craft Essay by Krys Malcolm Belc

by Black Warrior Review | Jan 14, 2019 | Feature

On “First Seen in Print in 1987, According to Merriam Webster” Krys Malcolm Belc My original New York City Certificate of Birth, issued in July 1987, is a beautiful document. I love the weathered pink paper, the texture, the seal and signatures. I stare at...