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Black Warrior Review is a paying literary journal seeking surreal and speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and hybrid work during seasonal submission periods.

Response time info: 3-6 months

Read the full guidelines at bwr.ua.edu↗

Submission calls

fictionScience FictionFantasyHorrorOpens Dec 15

Seeks unreal fiction embracing the surreal, mystical, mythical, magical, absurd, and alternate realities. Accepts up to 6,000 words. General submissions are read predominantly December 15-March 1 and June 1-September 30, subject to annual change.

nonfictionLiteraryOpens Dec 15

Seeks uncertain, speculative, and multi-perspective nonfiction examining truth, memory, history, science, medicine, marginalization, and personal belief. Limit 4,000 words. General submissions are read predominantly December 15-March 1 and June 1-September 30, subject to annual change.

otherLiteraryOpens Dec 15

Hybrid work should be genre-interdisciplinary, multimodal, expansive, denying, or boundary-breaking, informed by multiple disciplines and practices. Accepts up to 10 pages and publishes hybrid pieces in black and white. General submissions are read predominantly December 15-March 1 and June 1-September 30, subject to annual change.

poetryLiteraryOpens Dec 15

Seeks poetry exploring personal, colonial, postcolonial, BIPOC, historical, experimental, illness, memory, and ordinary-life themes. General submissions are read predominantly December 15-March 1 and June 1-September 30, subject to annual change.

other

Playground Boyfriend submissions are open May 15-June 15, 2026. Submissions are accepted through the online submission manager.

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