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2014 Contest: Nonfiction Runner-up MOTHER TONGUE by Chelsey Clammer

by Black Warrior Review | Apr 13, 2015 | Archive, Feature

Chelsey Clammer received her MA in Women’s Studies from Loyola University Chicago, and is currently enrolled in the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program. She has been published in The Rumpus, Essay Daily, and The Water~Stone Review among many others. She is an...

11th Annual Contest Open!

by Black Warrior Review | Apr 1, 2015 | News

Black Warrior Review’s eleventh-annual contest is now open, and we’re honored to have Heather Christle (Poetry), Alissa Nutting (Fiction/Prose), and Mary Roach (Nonfiction) as our guest judges. Winners in each genre receive a $1,000 prize and publication in BWR...

Contest 2014: Poetry Runner-up SELF PORTRAIT WITH HAWK & ARMADA by Emily Skaja

by Black Warrior Review | Mar 30, 2015 | Archive, Feature

Emily Skaja grew up next to a cemetery in northern Illinois. Along with Julie Henson, she is the Poetry Editor of Sycamore Review. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Indiana Review, Indiana Review, PANK, The Pinch, Pleiades, and Southern Indiana...

10th Annual Contest Results!

by Black Warrior Review | Oct 6, 2014 | Archive, News

BWR is pleased to announce the winners and runners-up of our 10th Annual Contest in Prose, Poetry, and Nonfiction. Each winner will receive $1,000 and publication in issue 40.2 of BWR (forthcoming this spring), and for the first time ever each runner-up will receive...

2013 Contest: A Look Back at Fiction Winner Mari Christmas

by Black Warrior Review | Aug 18, 2014 | Archive, Feature

Mari Christmas is pursuing an MFA at the University of Notre Dame. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Canary Press and Paragraphiti. Baby by Mari Christmas “I didn’t agree to do this.” Let’s try this again. Let’s take it from the street corner. ...