FEATURE
2018 Flash Contest Runner-Up Alice Maglio
“Let’s eat baby the steak is getting cold” is a brief story that splits the space between haunted and relatable. Surrealist and allegorical, it renders a strange object of obsession, desire, and envy—a tooth—and seduces the reader into a powerful drama of the...
2018 Nonfiction Contest Runner-up: J’Lyn Chapman
"There is a beautiful moment in this meditation on nature, language, and motherhood which made me fall in love with it—the narrator writes of reading Charlotte Brontë’s novel Villette, in bed, the summer after her daughter was born, which moves into Brontë’s...
2019 Contest: Interview with Flash Judge Vi Khi Nao
Vi Khi Nao is the author of Sheep Machine (Black Sun Lit, 2018) and Umbilical Hospital (Press 1913, 2017), and of the short stories collection, A Brief Alphabet of Torture, which won FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize in 2016, the novel, Fish in...
45.2 Feature: Craft Essay by Ava Hofmann
Originally from Oxford, Ohio, Ava Hofmann is a writer currently living and working as an MFA student in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She has poems published in or forthcoming from Black Warrior Review, Fence, Anomaly, Best American Experimental...
45.2 Feature: An Interview with Amanda Kallis – 2018 BWR Nonfiction Contest Winner
Her work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review (2018 Nonfiction Contest Winner), Spillway, Prelude, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and The Cincinnati Review. She's received fellowships from the Edward F. Albee Foundation and the Iowa...
45.2 Feature: An Interview with Ndinda Kioko – 2018 BWR Fiction Contest Winner
Ndinda Kioko is a Kenyan writer and filmmaker whose works have appeared on several platforms and publications including The Trans-African, BBC Radio 4, Wasafiri Magazine, Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara,and Jalada Africa. She has been awarded the...
45.1 Feature: My Mother Sees the Invisible by Gabriela Garcia
“…I’ll be the first to admit I can’t stand these proclamations of victimhood, especially when she’s seeing demons and devils and clawing at me like I’m not the one trying to mend these broken pieces of a woman…”
45.1 feature: Laura Villareal reads 8 Chickens In A Papier Mache Human: A Bedtime Story
8 chickens in a papier mache human: a bedtime story Laura Villareal from 45.1 for Alfredo Aguilar imagine if it was steam powered, the brass endoskeleton heaving. angled movements, rigid. 16 taloned feet pulling levers in tight precision. roiling clouds...
45.1 Feature: Craft Essay by Krys Malcolm Belc
On "First Seen in Print in 1987, According to Merriam Webster" Krys Malcolm Belc My original New York City Certificate of Birth, issued in July 1987, is a beautiful document. I love the weathered pink paper, the texture, the seal and signatures. I stare at...
Dr. South Love or: How I Learned to Stop Listening and Love the Lady I Was
Dr. South Love or: How I Learned to Stop Listening and Love the Lady I Was Emma Bolden In the first frenzied firestorm of pro-Trump extremism, my liberal views made me a lightning rod in my workplace, and I got hit. I lost everything: the life and career I’d built so...