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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...

From the Archives: fragments from RECONSOLIDATION by Janice Lee, 2012 Nonfiction Contest Winner

by Black Warrior Review | Jul 13, 2017 | Feature, Nonfiction Print

Click here for information about our 2017 contest. Janice Lee is the author of KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press, 2010), Daughter (Jaded Ibis, 2011), Damnation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2013), Reconsolidation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2015), and The Sky Isn’t Blue (Civil Coping...

2017 Contest: An Interview with Fiction Judge Nicola Griffith

by Black Warrior Review | May 15, 2017 | Archive, Interviews

Nicola Griffith, a dual UK/US citizen, is the author of six novels (most recently Hild), a few short stories, and a memoir. She co-edited the Bending the Landscape anthology series of original short fiction with queer protagonists. These works have won more than...

2016 Contest: An Interview with Poetry Winner Kirsten Ihns

by Black Warrior Review | Apr 24, 2017 | Archive, Interviews

Kirsten Ihns is an MFA candidate in poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and will be a Ph.D. student in the English Literature program at UChicago in the fall. She is grateful to Felicity Nussbaum/her book The Autobiographical Subject, from which one of her...

2016 Contest: An Interview with Nonfiction Winner Rocket Caleshu

by Black Warrior Review | Apr 17, 2017 | Archive, Interviews

Rocket Caleshu (b. 1984) is a writer based in Los Angeles. He holds a BA in Africana Studies from Brown University and an MFA in Creative Writing/Critical Studies from the California Institute of the Arts, where he was the inaugural Truman Capote Literary Fellow....