INTERVIEWS
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...
2019 Contest: Interview with Fiction Judge Rivers Solomon
Rivers Solomon is a dyke, an anarchist, a she-beast, an exile, a wound, a shiv, a wreck, and a refugee of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. They write about life in the margins, where they are much at home. Rivers Solomon graduated from Stanford University with a degree...
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.