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2013 Contest: An Interview with Fiction Judge Brian Evenson

by Black Warrior Review | Jul 1, 2013 | Archive, Interviews

Interview by JAKE KINSTLER Black Warrior Review: Both Fugue State and your new book Windeye are self-contained and complete works interested in (it seems to me) how story collections can function as a singular artistic work. In Fugue State, there are repeated themes...

Contest Now Open!

by Black Warrior Review | Apr 2, 2013 | Archive, News

Ninth-Annual Contest Now Open All entries must be submitted by September 1, 2013. We’re honored to have as our guest judges: Kate Durbin (Poetry) Brian Evenson (Fiction/Prose) Jenny Boully (Nonfiction) Winners in each genre receive a $1,000 prize and...

Winners and Finalists of our Eighth Annual Contest

by Black Warrior Review | Dec 6, 2012 | Archive, News

We’re pleased to announce the winners and finalists of our eighth annual contest. Our nonfiction judge, Maggie Nelson, selected this year’s Nonfiction Winner: Shena McAuliffe for “Endnotes to a Seizure” Nonfiction Finalists: Seth Morgan Abigail Loar...

2012 Contest: An Interview with Fiction Judge Mary Caponegro

by Black Warrior Review | Sep 3, 2012 | Archive, Interviews

Interview by DARA EWING What I love about Mary Caponegro is her delight in scenes or moments that might pass unnoticed had she not slowed them down, zoomed in, and provided them with the attention they never knew they deserved. She admits that fabulist writing is the...

Contest 2012: An Interview with Poetry Judge Sabrina Orah Mark

by Black Warrior Review | Aug 29, 2012 | Archive, Interviews

Interview by LAURA KOCHMAN I am so excited, because Sabrina Orah Mark is our poetry contest judge this year. You should probably be excited, too–she’s the author of The Babies and Tsim Tsum, both from Saturnalia Books, and you can find her work in Best...