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Black Warrior Review is named for the river that borders the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Established in 1974 by graduate students in the MFA Program in Creative Writing, BWR is the oldest continuously-run literary journal produced by graduate students in the United States. BWR publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and art twice a year. Contributors include Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners alongside emerging writers. Work appearing in BWR has been reprinted in the Pushcart Prize series, Best American Short Stories, Best American Poetry, PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize, New Stories from the South, and other anthologies.

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Now accepting submissions for our 2019 contest!

Black Warrior Review is accepting submissions to our annual contest now through September 1st.
 
We are thrilled to have Tommy Pico (Poetry), Rivers Solomon (Fiction), Selah Saterstrom (Nonfiction), and Vi Khi Nao (Flash) as guest judges this year.
 
Winners in Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction receive a $1,500 prize and publication in BWR 46.2, our Spring/Summer 2019 issue.
Flash winners receive $800 and publication in the same issue. 
 
As a thank-you for your interest and support, the $20 domestic entry fee for Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction submissions includes a one-year subscription to Black Warrior Review. The Flash entry fee is $8.

2019 CONTEST

$1500 & PUBLICATION in Nonfiction, Fiction, and Poetry.
$800 & PUBLICATION in our Flash Category.

Poetry Judge: Tommy Pico

Fiction Judge: Rivers Solomon

Nonfiction Judge: Selah Saterstrom

Flash Judge: Vi Khi Nao

DEADLINE: September 1st, 2019

Poetry Judge: Tommy Pico

Tommy “Teebs” Pico is the author of the books IRL, Nature Poem, Junk, Feed, and myriad keen tweets including “sittin on the cock of gay.” Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now splits his time between Los Angeles and Brooklyn. He co-curates the reading series Poets with Attitude, co-hosts the podcast Food 4 Thot, and is a contributing editor at Literary Hub.

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 in comparative studies in race and ethnicity and holds an MFA in fiction writing from the Michener Center for Writers. Though originally from the United States, they currently live in Cambridge, England, with their family. An Unkindness of Ghosts is their debut novel.

Nonfiction Judge: Selah Saterstrom

 

Selah Saterstrom is the author of the novels Slab, The Meat and The Spirit Plan, and The Pink Institution. Her collection of essays, Ideal Suggestions: Essays in Divinatory Poetics, won the 2015 Essay Book Award. She teaches and lectures across the United States, and is the Director of Creative Writing at The University of Denver. 

 

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 Exile (Coffee House Press, 2016), and the poetry collection, The Old Philosopher, which won the Nightboat Books Prize for Poetry in 2014. Her work includes poetry, fiction, film, and cross-genre collaboration. Her stories, poems, and drawings have appeared in NOON, Ploughshares, Black Warrior Review, and BOMB, among others. She holds an MFA in fiction from Brown University, where she received the John Hawkes and Feldman Prizes in fiction and the Kim Ann Arstark Memorial Award in poetry. 

GUIDELINES

  • Fiction and Nonfiction: Submit up to 7,000 words.

  • Poetry: Submit a packet of up to 3 poems.

  • Flash: Submit a packet of up to 3 flash pieces. This can be in any genre, as long as the author considers it “flash.” We encourage experimental, hybrid, and lyrical submissions in this category. Image + text work is also welcomed. Surprise us.

  • Do not include your contact information in your document. We will use your Submittable information to contact you, so please make sure your contact information is accurate and up-to-date.

  • Multiple submissions are welcome, as are simultaneous submissions. Please notify us immediately if your submission is accepted elsewhere.

  • We accept only previously unpublished work for publication.

  • Winners in Nonfiction, Fiction, and Poetry genre receive $1500 and publication in BWR 46.2, our Winter/Spring 2019 issue. Two runner-ups in each genre receive monetary compensation and acknowledgment in that issue. We may consider any submission for general publication.

  • The winner in Flash receives $800 and publication in BWR 46.2, our Winter/Spring 2019 issue. Two runner-ups receive monetary compensation and online publication. We may consider any submission for general publication.

  • The contest is open April 1 – September 1st. Winners will be announced in October.

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(3) Winners in Nonfiction, Fiction, and Poetry

$1 500
publication in BWR 46.2

Winner in Flash

$800
publication in BWR 46.2

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America/Indiana/Tell_City
04 April 2019
04 April 2019

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01 September 2019
01 September 2019

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