NEWS
11th Annual Contest Results!
BWR is pleased to announce the winners and runners-up of our 11th Annual Contest in Prose, Poetry, and Nonfiction. Each winner will receive $1,000 and publication in issue 42.2 of BWR (forthcoming this spring), and each runner-up will receive $100. Jill Rosenberg was...
11th Annual Contest Open!
Black Warrior Review's eleventh-annual contest is now open, and we’re honored to have Heather Christle (Poetry), Alissa Nutting (Fiction/Prose), and Mary Roach (Nonfiction) as our guest judges. Winners in each genre receive a $1,000 prize and publication in BWR 42.2,...
Submissions Now Open & Other News
Dear Readers, General submissions to Black Warrior Review’s prose, poetry, nonfiction, and graphic prose genres will open on December 1st. We welcome all of your submissions, especially the experimental works, the lyrical fragments, and everything in-between....
The Letters Festival: November 6-8 in Atlanta, GA!
Black Warrior Review and NANO Fiction will be traveling to Atlanta, Georgia to participate in The Letters Festival, a three-day literary event bringing together pivotal writers from around the country for live readings, writing workshops, discussions, and a book...
43rd Kentuck Arts Festival: October 18 & 19 in Northport!
Oct. 18 & 19, 2014 9am to 5pm, Kentuck Park, 3501 5th St., Northport, AL 35476 Black Warrior Review is pleased to join the hundreds artists and craftspeople at Kentuck Park in a few days! On the third weekend of October each year is the Kentuck Festival of the...
10th Annual Contest Results!
BWR is pleased to announce the winners and runners-up of our 10th Annual Contest in Prose, Poetry, and Nonfiction. Each winner will receive $1,000 and publication in issue 40.2 of BWR (forthcoming this spring), and for the first time ever each runner-up will receive...
Bankhead Visiting Writers Series Presents: A Q&A with FC2 Writers Jessica Lee Richardson, Michael Mejia, & Sarah Blackman
Jessica Lee Richardson, Michael Mejia, and Sarah Blackman will join the Bankhead Visiting Writers Series and Black Warrior Review on Friday, October 17th at noon, for a Q&A on the job market, writing outside of the structure of an MFA program, finding an agent,...
Book ‘Em and the Books to Prisons Project: August 2 in Northport!
Black Warrior Review is thrilled to join the Books to Prisons Project at its first-ever book event in West Alabama. Book ‘Em: a gathering of authors and readers will take place at the Northport Civic Center on Saturday, August 2, 2014 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Among the...
Fiction Reading Period Closing August 1st
After much consideration, we at Black Warrior Review have made the decision to close our 2014 general fiction submissions on August 1st. Contest submissions will remain open till September 1st. We know that fiction submissions only recently re-opened; however, in the...
Poetry and Nonfiction Reading Period Closing June 1st
After much consideration, we at Black Warrior Review have made the decision to close our 2014 general poetry and nonfiction submissions earlier than planned, on June 1st. Contest submissions will remain open till September 1st. We receive a huge number of incredible...