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Black Warrior Review

Box 862936

Tuscaloosa, AL 35486

Phone: (205) 348-4518 E-mail: bwr@ua.edu

Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Reading period: year-round Response time: 4 Months Payment: yes (see website) Contests: yes (see website) ISSN: 0193-6301 Founded: 1974 Issues per year: 2 Distributors: Ingram Copy Price: $10 Subscription (Individuals): $16 Subscription (Libraries): $20

Publisher’s Description: “Black Warrior Review does everything right. They consistently publish great fiction and poetry while doing things differently and standing out from the crowd ... The current issue is excellent from start to finish ... One of the best magazines around." (NewPages.com review).

Since 1974, Black Warrior Review has published the freshest voices in literature, from established and emerging talents alike. Each issue presents high quality poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including a chapbook by a nationally recognized poet. In addition, we’ve recently added comics and full-color art inserts to our repertoire. Black Warrior Review counts among its contributors Pulitzer Prize Winners, National Book Award Winners, and Poet Laureates. Stories and poems from BWR have been reprinted in Puschart Prize series, Best American Short Stories, Best American Poetry, New Stories from the South, and other anthologies. In our 35 year history, we’ve published work by John Ashbery, Rita Dove, Marvin Bell, Annie Dillard, Charles Simic, James Tate, and Andre Dubus. Recent contributors include G.C. Waldrep, Tomaz Salamun, George Singleton, James Kimbrell, Judy Budnitz, Ed Pavlic, and Peter Orner. This year's contest judges will be Tomaz Salamun and Lydia Millet.

Black Warrior Review is published by students in The University of Alabama’s MFA Program in Creative Writing. We receive support from The University of Alabama and from individual donors around the country.

Recent Issues:

Issue 34.1, Fall/Winter 2007
BWR’s latest issue 34.1, the Sad Animal issue, features (sad!) animal art by Howie Tsui, a (sad!) sea cow comic by Josh Frankel, (sad!) chapbook Abracadaver by Alex Lemon, and wonderfully (sad!) poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from new voices and favorites such as Joy Williams, Tomaz Salamun, and Bob Hicok.

Spring &Summer 2007
Black Warrior Review's Spring & Summer 2007 issue features our Second-Ever Contest Winners: Beth Ann Fennelly (Poetry) and Eben Wood (Fiction), hair-art and more from sculptor Nicole Barrick, amazing writing from new voices and established authors such as Paul Guest and Chris Bachelder, a special Guest Editor Feature including selections from Lydia Millet, Steve Tomasula, Ander Monson, and a chapbook by Stephanie Bolster!