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...
An Interview with Joanna Klink
Interview by AB GORHAM Black Warrior Review: Joanna, often, in grad school, we’re (students) reminded to keep our audience in mind while composing, revising, reciting our work. Can you identify your audience, as in, do you have a particular reader in mind when you...
2012 Contest: An Interview with Fiction Judge Mary Caponegro
Interview by DARA EWING What I love about Mary Caponegro is her delight in scenes or moments that might pass unnoticed had she not slowed them down, zoomed in, and provided them with the attention they never knew they deserved. She admits that fabulist writing is the...