FEATURE
Special Art Feature: Nutrition Paste by H. G. Garner
H. G. Garner "Nutrition Paste" by H.G. Garner part of our issue 52.2 release. Get a copy of the full issue at the link below. HG Garner (they/them) is a queer comics creator specializing in slow-paced Weird Fiction stories that emphasize feelings of...
Special Art Features: Issue 52.2
The following artists were all included in Black Warrior Review's Issue 52.2. Get a copy of the full issue at the link below.
Special Art Feature: Está Lloviendo by Christiana Castillo
Christiana Castillo " Está Lloviendo" by Christiana Castillo is part of our issue 52.2 release. Get a copy of the full issue at the link below. Christiana Castillo (she/ella) is a Mexican-Brasilian-American poet, educator, cultural worker, and gardener...
Special Art Feature: Three Pieces by Micaela Kaibni Raen
Micaela Kaibni Raen "Prayer of Tears," "Tatreez Herstories," and "Sunbirds" by Micaela Kaibni Raen are part of our issue 52.2 release. Get a copy of the full issue at the link below. Micaela Kaibni Raen is a queer Palestinian American creator,...
Special Online Feature: “I may soon love” by Lily Holloway, 2024 Poetry Contest Runner-up
Lily Holloway Runner-up, 2024 BWR Poetry Contest“I may soon love” is a poem that reaches, that aches with restlessness. That restlessness is corralled, formally, by the end-stopped lines in the middle of the poem, that barrage of question and longing. The poem’s...
Special Online Feature: “de Clérambault” by Sophia Terazawa, 2024 Nonfiction Contest Runner-up
Sophia Terazawa Runner-up, 2024 BWR Nonfiction Contest“de Clérambault” is a piecing together of beautiful poem-threads into a jarring love story through anaphora and ever-telescoping intimacies. I admire the inter-ness of this form and the ways the reader is let into...
Book Review: Trans Studies by Crystal Odelle, Reviewed by Alayna Powell
Reviewed by Alayna Powell, BWR Poetry Editor Trans Studies Crystal Odelle 2025 Gold Line Press 78 pagesCrystal Odelle’s Trans Studies (Gold Line Press, 2025) is a collection of self-fragments; a collage of dreams and desire buried within “a perpetually...
Special Art Feature: Missing Persons by Kaya Dierks
Kaya Dierks "Missing Persons" by Kaya Dierks is part of our issue 52.1 release. Get a copy of the full issue at the link below. Kaya Dierks is a mixed-race writer from California. Her fiction appears in The Adroit Journal, Smokelong Quarterly, Fractured...
Special Online Feature: “Reva Speaks a New Dialect” by Fiction Contest Runner-up, Shastri Akella
Reva Speaks a New Dialectby Shastri AkellaBWR 2024 Fiction Contest Runner-upReva doesn’t get a bridal welcome: she hears neither shehnai nor danka when her palanquin is lowered in front of her husband’s house, and when she steps out, in place of a group of women...
Exclusive Online Feature: “Mold Vincit Omnia” by Mariah Gese
Mold Vincit OmniaMariah Gesefrom BWR 51.1View mobile-friendly version here...“Mold Vincit Omnia” by Mariah Gese is featured in Black Warrior Review issue 51.1, now available in our store We’re thrilled to showcase the full-color version of Martin’s work here online,...