Black Warrior Review 961

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 September 2021* (approx. 74 days from now). 15

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Genres:

GGeneral General

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Experimental, Literary.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Types/Lengths:

Type	Length Details
FFlash Fiction Flash Fiction	Up to 1,000 words; Up to 3 pieces.
SShort Story Short Story	1,000 - 7,000 words.

Payscale:

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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:

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OK	No	No	OK	Text format submissions

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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.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Experimental, Literary.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Types/Lengths:

Type	Length Details
YEssay Essay	Up to 7,000 words.
ZNarrative Nonfiction Narrative Nonfiction	Up to 7,000 words.

Payscale:

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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:

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OK	No	No	OK	Text format submissions

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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 September 2021* (approx. 74 days from now). 17

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Genres:

GGeneral General

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
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
OK	No	No	OK	Text format submissions

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* We do not know the time and/or timezone, so we cannot be more precise. Submit early to avoid disappointment.

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.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Art Media:

Cartoon/Comic strip.

Art Styles:

Open to all/most Art Styles.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Types/Lengths:

Type	Length Details
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
OK	No	No	OK	Image format submissions

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