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Black Warrior Review is a paying literary journal publishing boundary-pushing fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and hybrid work in print and online.

Response time info: 3-6 months

Read the full guidelines at bwr.ua.edu↗

Submission calls

fictionScience FictionFantasyHorrorOpens Dec 15

Seeks surreal, mystical, mythical, magical, absurd, and alternate-reality fiction; accepts up to 6,000 words. General submissions are read predominantly December 15-March 1 and June 1-September 30, though dates may change annually.

nonfictionLiteraryOpens Dec 15

Seeks uncertain, speculative, and questioning nonfiction examining memory, competing truths, marginalized histories, and the lies used to control or silence people; limit 4,000 words. General submissions are read predominantly December 15-March 1 and June 1-September 30, though dates may change annually.

otherLiteraryOpens Dec 15

Hybrid work should dissolve or deconstruct genre boundaries and may be interdisciplinary, multimodal, genre-expansive, or genre-transcendent; 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, though dates may change annually.

poetryLiteraryOpens Dec 15

Seeks poetry exploring history, place, personal and collective histories, colonial and postcolonial experience, BIPOC spaces, illness, memory loss, ordinary life, and experimental approaches. General submissions are read predominantly December 15-March 1 and June 1-September 30, though dates may change annually.

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