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2018 Contest: Interview with Flash Judge Jennifer S. Cheng

by Black Warrior Review | May 20, 2018 | Feature, Interviews

Jennifer S. Cheng’s work includes poetry, lyric essay, and image-text forms. Her debut book, HOUSE A (2016), was selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize, and her forthcoming hybrid collection, MOON: Letters, Maps, Poems (May 2018), was...

2017 Fiction Contest Runner-up: TABOO by Ruth Mukwana

by Black Warrior Review | May 16, 2018 | Feature

“Taboo” immediately gives us a connection to the narrator: visceral and particular descriptions of a boy in a refugee camp. The story—the characters in their situation—never wavers in its assurance. The writer very economically sets up a series of very human...

From the Archives: Sonnet Infinitéismal n°3 / Matérial Girl n°8 by Aristilde Kirby

by Black Warrior Review | Apr 25, 2018 | Chapbook Print, Feature, Poetry Print

Sonnet Infinitéismal n°3 / Matérial Girl n°8 Aristilde Kirby from BWR 44.1 Aristilde Justine Kirby (27 | 4/11/1991) is a poet, Louise Montalescot’s daughter, amateur chansonnier, recovering overthinker, picaresque girl & paper champion. She has chapbooks...

44.2 Feature: Craft Essay by Samantha Edmonds

by Black Warrior Review | Apr 17, 2018 | Feature

Samantha Edmonds’ fiction and nonfiction appears in Day One, Pleiades, Indiana Review, the Ploughshares blog, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, among others. She currently lives in Knoxville, where she’s an MFA candidate at the University of...

44.2 Sneak Peek: THE NIGHTGOWN by Taisia Kitaiskaia

by Black Warrior Review | Mar 20, 2018 | Feature, Poetry Print

Taisia Kitaiskaia is the author of Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers (Hachette/Seal), illustrated by Katy Horan, and Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles (Andrews McMeel). She holds an MFA in Poetry from the Michener Center...

44.2 feature: Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint reads BLISS PLACE

by Black Warrior Review | Mar 6, 2018 | Feature, Fiction Print

Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint was born in Myanmar and grew up in Thailand and California. She is the author of The End of Peril, the End of Enmity, the End of Strife, a Haven (Noemi Press, March 2018). Her short stories have appeared in TriQuarterly, Collagist, and Kenyon...