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Contest 2020
2020 CONTEST$1,000 & PUBLICATION in Nonfiction, Fiction, and Poetry.$500 & PUBLICATION in our Flash Category. Poetry Judge: Paul Tran Fiction Judge: Lucy Corin Nonfiction Judge: Mayukh Sen Flash Judge: C Pam Zhang DEADLINE: September 10, 2020 Poetry Judge:...
2019 Contest Results!
BWR is pleased to announce the winners and runners-up of our 2019 Contests in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Flash. We are forever grateful to our inimitable judges: Rivers Solomon, Tommy Pico, Selah Saterstrom, and Vi Khi Nao. Naomi Day was selected as the fiction...
Best of the Net Nominations!
The BWR team is immensely proud to nominate these beautiful and wonderful works for The Best of The Net!Fiction: "A naked woman shows up at the door" by Leonora Desar"Tooth" by Michelle LeeNonfiction: "L U S T, f o a m, & M DN GHT BLUE" by Caroline Cooledge...
Submissions Call for Boyfriend Village #3: The Double Negative Boyfriend!
BWR is casting out our hook for work for our third edition of Boyfriend Village! In our world, psychotherapy is not a science. The portmanteau has become a Finnish delicacy. The right people no longer have adulterous affairs, but everybody is a horse face. The crowd...
Congratulations to Gabriela Garcia, 2nd place winner in the Vestal Review Flash Contest
A big shout out and congratulations to 45.1 contributor Gabriela Garcia! Her piece "My Mother Sees The Invisible," won 2nd in the Vestal Review Flash Contest chosen by Katharine Weber. Katharine called her piece: "...viivid, unconventional story seizes the reader...
Give a contest donation to a writer!
You have the option of donating a contest submission to a writer for the genre of their choice.Writers receiving donations and donors get a year-long subscription to BWR.You can gift a contest submission to a writer you know OR you can choose to donate a submission...
Now Accepting Submissions for Boyfriend Village: Fox Boyfriend!
Black Warrior Review is pleased to announce that we’ll be reading submissions for our third online edition, Boyfriend Village. Submissions open March 1st and close March 31st.
Contest 2019
2019 CONTEST $1500 & PUBLICATION in Nonfiction, Fiction, and Poetry.$800 & PUBLICATION in our Flash Category. Poetry Judge: Tommy Pico Fiction Judge: Rivers Solomon Nonfiction Judge: Selah Saterstrom Flash Judge: Vi Khi Nao DEADLINE: September 1st, 2019 Poetry...
Nominations for The Best Small Fiction
Our nominations for best small fictions!
BWR Pushcart Nominations!
We at BWR are immensely proud to nominate these extraordinary works that appeared in our pages for the Pushcart Prize! Please join us in congratulating these writers! Tyrese Coleman, "Speculum" from BWR issue 45.1, Fall/Winter 2018 Bertha Isabel Crombet,...