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Black Warrior Review is a University of Alabama literary journal publishing boundary-pushing fiction, poetry, nonfiction, hybrid work, and other written forms in print and online.

Response time info: 3-6 months

Read the full guidelines at bwr.ua.edu↗

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fictionScience FictionFantasyHorrorEligibility requirementsCloses Sep 30Fee amount not stated; fee waivers are available for financial hardship, and submissions are free for incarcerated writers.Pays: Pays contributors; amount varies by issue and number of contributors.

Open to: Submissions must be unpublished; AI-translated, AI-written, AI-developed, or AI-assisted work is not considered.

Fiction that is unreal, surreal, mystical, mythical, magical, absurd, or set in alternate realities; up to 6,000 words. General submissions are read predominantly December 15-March 1 and June 1-September 30, though dates may change annually.

nonfictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Sep 30Fee amount not stated; fee waivers are available for financial hardship, and submissions are free for incarcerated writers.Pays: Pays contributors; amount varies by issue and number of contributors.

Open to: Submissions must be unpublished; AI-translated, AI-written, AI-developed, or AI-assisted work is not considered.

Nonfiction questioning capital-T truth and exploring competing realities, memory, lies, marginalized histories, and systems of control; limit 4,000 words. General submissions are read predominantly December 15-March 1 and June 1-September 30, though dates may change annually.

otherEligibility requirementsCloses Sep 30Fee amount not stated; fee waivers are available for financial hardship, and submissions are free for incarcerated writers.Pays: Pays contributors; amount varies by issue and number of contributors.

Open to: Submissions must be unpublished; AI-translated, AI-written, AI-developed, or AI-assisted work is not considered.

Hybrid work that dissolves or deconstructs genre boundaries and is interdisciplinary, multimodal, genre-expansive, or genre-transcendent; up to 10 pages and currently publishable only in black and white. General submissions are read predominantly December 15-March 1 and June 1-September 30, though dates may change annually.

poetryEligibility requirementsCloses Sep 30Fee amount not stated; fee waivers are available for financial hardship, and submissions are free for incarcerated writers.Pays: Pays contributors; amount varies by issue and number of contributors.

Open to: Submissions must be unpublished; AI-translated, AI-written, AI-developed, or AI-assisted work is not considered.

Poetry exploring history, place, personal and colonial/postcolonial histories, BIPOC spaces, illness, memory loss, dysfunction, and ordinary life, including experimental work. General submissions are read predominantly December 15-March 1 and June 1-September 30, though dates may change annually.

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