Boyfriend Village

With its most recent edition, Black Warrior Review introduces the renaming of their online edition of the publication: Boyfriend Village.

The name comes a story written Zachary Doss, “The Village with All of the Boyfriends.” Zach was an editor with BWR  and beloved member of the literary community. He passed away in March 2018.

Brandi Wells writes, “Zach loved BWR before, during, and after he was editor there. It makes sense that he might be woven into the infrastructure in this way. I hope it is a space for weird voices and writers who are trying something new, something surprising.”

She offers readers this excerpt from Zach’s story: “The Village with All of the Boyfriends is where all of your boyfriends wind up eventually. You built this Village for them and they can’t leave and neither can you. You are not allowed inside, but you wait in the desert at the edge of town.”