Black Warrior Review
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About
Established in 1974 by graduate students in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Alabama, Black Warrior Review publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners alongside emerging writers. Stories and poems appearing in Black Warrior Review have been reprinted in the Pushcart Prize series, Best American Short Stories, Best American Poetry, New Stories from the South, and other anthologies. Each issue features a chapbook from an up-and-coming writer in any genre.
Fees Notice: This project charges fees (or requires purchases) for some submissions. Look for the fees icon.
Important: Submissions are free for those who identify as Black, Indigenous, and incarcerated.
Country of Publication & Year Established
United States |
Established in 1974 |
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Audience
Open to a broad Audience. |
Publication Medium & Frequency
PPrint Publication | Print Publication | Published 2 x per year. |
Fiction Open Fee-based
BWR is all set up in jeans and a corset. We’re smoking a very long cigarette on an old yellow couch. It’s 2:27 AM. The mailman wanders in, looking for his lost shih-tzu. In the ensuing conversation, the life erotic, the life political, the life bound and unbound is glimpsed. The sharpened edges of systems cut the grasping fingers. This just might be a comedy. Or it might, after all, be a prophecy.
- Dates:
Open to fee-based fiction submissions through 01 March 2021 (36.5 days from now). 24
- Genres:
- Styles:
- Open to all/most Styles, including: Experimental, Literary.
- Topics:
- Open to all/most Topics.
- Types/Lengths:
Type | Length Details |
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FFlash Fiction Flash Fiction | Up to 1,000 words; Up to 3 pieces. |
SShort Story Short Story | 1,000 - 7,000 words. |
- Payscale:
- We list broad pay categories rather than payment specifics. Check with the publisher for details.
SSemi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word) to PProfessional payment (5 or more US cents per word) Pay ranges from Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word) to Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word). |
- Submissions:
Electronic | Postal | Reprints | Simultaneous | Media |
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OK | No | No | OK | Text format submissions |
- Always check guidelines for details and restrictions. If you aren't familiar with these terms, see our glossary.
Nonfiction Open Fee-based
We are interested in nonfiction that complicates western traditions of truth-telling. Send us writing that foregrounds the history of emotions rather than the history of facts. We want work that fractures reality, that demolishes walls. Writers of color are especially encouraged to submit.
- Styles:
- Open to all/most Styles, including: Experimental, Literary.
- Topics:
- Open to all/most Topics.
- Types/Lengths:
Type | Length Details |
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YEssay Essay | Up to 7,000 words. |
ZNarrative Nonfiction Narrative Nonfiction | Up to 7,000 words. |
- Payscale:
- We list broad pay categories rather than payment specifics. Check with the publisher for details.
SSemi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word) to PProfessional payment (5 or more US cents per word) Pay ranges from Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word) to Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word). |
- Submissions:
Electronic | Postal | Reprints | Simultaneous | Media |
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OK | No | No | OK | Text format submissions |
- Always check guidelines for details and restrictions. If you aren't familiar with these terms, see our glossary.
Poetry Open Fee-based
We’re looking for your portraits of Truth coming out of her well. (That’s just poetry, isn’t it?) That is, we’re looking for little truths, your own kind of portraiture. But also, and perhaps more importantly, we’re looking for half-truths, lies, finger-paintings with heart, finger-paintings soulless. Send us your loveliest left-aligned, but first send us grit. Send us the stuff that you pick out of your shoe treads. Send us the formal (ball gowns?), but also send us I woke up like thises (free verse, erasure, the visual?). Write us in logic puzzles, but write us in Steinese (please)! We like contradictions. (No, we don’t.) And parentheticals. (Look.)
- Dates:
Open to fee-based poetry submissions through 01 March 2021 (36.5 days from now). 18
- Genres:
- Poetry Forms:
- Open to all/most Forms.
- Styles:
- Open to all/most Styles, including: Experimental, Literary.
- Topics:
- Open to all/most Topics.
- Types/Lengths:
Type | Length Details |
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PPoem Poem | No line limits known; Up to 5 pieces. |
- Payscale:
- We list broad pay categories rather than payment specifics. Check with the publisher for details.
PProfessional payment (US$50 or more per poem) Professional payment (US$50 or more per poem). |
- Submissions:
Electronic | Postal | Reprints | Simultaneous | Media |
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OK | No | No | OK | Text format submissions |
- Always check guidelines for details and restrictions. If you aren't familiar with these terms, see our glossary.
Visual Art Open
Although we usually solicit one featured artist per issue, we do welcome submissions of striking visual narratives (think: graphic novel or memoir in short form). We are looking to publish one or two graphic essays/stories/poems, or pieces of sequential art per issue.
- Art Media:
- Cartoon/Comic strip.
- Art Styles:
- Open to all/most Art Styles.
- Topics:
- Open to all/most Topics.
- Types/Lengths:
Type | Length Details |
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NGraphic Narrative Graphic Narrative | No page limits known. |
- Payscale:
- We list broad pay categories rather than payment specifics. Check with the publisher for details.
PProfessional payment (US$50 or more per piece) to ?Unknown payment Pay ranges from Professional payment (US$50 or more per piece) to Unknown payment. |
- Submissions:
Electronic | Postal | Reprints | Simultaneous | Media |
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OK | No | No | OK | Image format submissions |
- Always check guidelines for details and restrictions. If you aren't familiar with these terms, see our glossary.
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