Contest Winner

49.2 Feature: “Mother Road” by Fiction Contest Runner-Up Lauren Hohle

by Katie DeLay | Jun 27, 2023 | Archive, Feature

Mother Road by Lauren Hohle BWR 49.2 Fiction Contest Runner-Up Before she was my mother, my mother performed in a hallelujah band on an Alaskan cruise ship. She sang “Shine, Jesus Shine” and shook a tambourine and strummed a pock-marked Sears catalog guitar for three...

49.2 Feature: “Theatre Masks” by Fiction Contest winner Dennis Mugaa

by Katie DeLay | Jun 27, 2023 | Archive, Feature

Theatre Masks by Dennis Mugaa BWR 49.2 Fiction Contest Winner I remember the day Gumato disappeared so clearly. We had just arrived from Johannesburg at six in the morning. We were outside the airport arrivals terminal. Our history teacher, Mr. T, was calling our...

2017 Poetry Contest Winner: Sarah María Medina’s “From a Poet to her Rumbero”

by Black Warrior Review | Jul 23, 2018 | Feature, Poetry Print

At the center of “From a Poet to her Rumbero” is a bucking heart, grappling with its fanged history & unbreaking fever. You sense its luminous pulse from the opening scene: i’m a dying sky of eagles / i’m arrowed into it. The poem’s language is unbridled yet moves...