INTERVIEW WITH THE NEW MASTHEAD: MEET THE 2025 BWR EDITORS! Every year, the BWR masthead changes hands. To give our readers and contributors a chance to get to know us a little better, each new editorial team completes an annual interview for our website. We submit...
“Ulta Receipt” by Exquisite Armantè is featured in the forthcoming Black Warrior Review issue 51.1, which is scheduled to hit shelves this month! We’re thrilled to showcase the full-color version of Exquisite’s work here online, highlighting the vivid...
Kelly Lenox’s fantastic nonfiction piece, “After a Guided Meditation on Self-Confidence,” was published in BWR’s fiftieth issue (50.1), in January of 2024. Read more about Kelly & her writing below! KELLY LENOX Kelly Lenox (The...
THE OHIO GRASSMAN GOES TO COSTCO The Ohio Grassman is having a bit of an identity crisis. Not in the clinical sense—he’s regularly attending therapy and practicing his active listening skills. In the mornings he whispers his mantras into the river moss and...
MIX-TAPE OBITUARY It sounds backwards, based on your reputation, but you don’t go to the liquor store, you head to aisle twelve of Northgate Market. That’s where it goes down, El No Sé Qué—The I Don’t Know What. You’re talking about some sci-fi grip—Big Sis was...
RABBIT MOON, LAKE NIGHTHORSE Glassine, the surface in which mountain and moon reflect. My lake. A soft one comes to the water’s edge, pad-pad pad… one-two three, a crooked waltz. I recognize the cadence, the long ears that shift toward any slight sound....
