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2020 Pushcart Nominations
The BWR team is immensely proud to nominate these beautiful and wonderful works for The Pushcart Prize! "Composite Material // Spirit Willin" by Cherise Morris (46.2) "All Nail / No Knife" by syan jay (46.2) "100% Mammal" by Kim Parko (47.1) "History of...
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:"Soba" by K.B. Carle"Lucinda" by Uma Dwivedi"The Hole in the Wall" by Nima Omidi"We Set Fire to the Horse" by DØgtail NØrth Nonfiction:"Let (((This Be the...
2020 Contest Submissions Free for Black Writers
Black Warrior Review stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, Black writers, and all efforts to end a culture of white supremacy. We greatly value the work of our Black contributors and are always seeking an even higher volume of work from Black...
Donate a Contest Submission to a Writer!
We are very pleased to be offering, once again, the opportunity for you to donate or receive a BWR contest submission! (More info on the contest here.) Interested in donating a submission? You can gift a submission to a specific writer you know OR you can choose to...
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...