INTERVIEWS
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...
Meet the Editors: An Interview with Design Editor, Reilly Cox
I like to see work that is sturdy yet vulnerable. A piece of art, for me, should be both emotionally and intellectually compelling and doesn’t rely entirely on one element. It should risk something.
Meet the Editors: An Interview with Fiction Editor, Lily Davenport
In essence, I want the writers who were too ‘experimental’ (whatever that means) for the SFF magazines, but too ‘genre’ (whatever that means) for the other journals that publish experimental work.
45.1 Feature: An Interview with Tyrese Coleman
I wanted the reader to witness Lucy, participate in what happens to her. It was important to me that this piece not be passive but something that readers interact with almost physically. I am hoping for squirming.
A Conversation with David Naimon
“I gravitate more and more anyways to writers who foreground language vs. ones who try to cast a spell where the reader disappears into the story so much that the language seems to disappear. “
Local Spotlight: An Interview with Ashley M. Jones
People should know that Birmingham is AFLAME with literary culture, and it’s only spreading faster.
Local Spotlight: Interview with Dr. Hilary N. Green
I can see the tours as art. The tours disrupt the current landscape by inserting voices who have been historically silenced. By relating the history as well as the names of specific enslaved men, women, and children, the typical soundscapes of the University are disrupted, transformed, and remade.
2017 Poetry Contest Runner-up: Noah Baldino
The beauty of this poem is how it resists the urge to pull punches, placing its readers in a position beyond that of witness: if this is what I must endure, you must help me endure it. Help me gather the teeth, confettied against the glinting pipes. Help me see the dead flies / mottled / a swarm of distant, dark balloons. Do not be mistaken – this is no sad resignation but, instead, the blood-holy howl of a body refusing to be shaped by its enemies.
An Interview with Sarah María Medina – 2017 BWR Poetry Contest Winner
I use white space to play with the rhythm and beat of an open rather than set structure. There’s another song I love which switches from Rumba to Bembé and I like thinking about what that would look like on the page. I like to use Spanish to subvert English, to reclaim tongue, but Spanish is also a colonizer language, so I like to find Taíno and Yorùbá words too.