Open May 1, 2007- October 1, 2007

The THIRD time’s a charm and this year’s contest is no exception. The First Place Winner in each category will receive $1,000 and Publication in Spring 2007!

Guest Judges this year are Dean Young (poetry) and Josh Russell (fiction).

Send your entry to:
Fiction Contest OR Poetry Contest
Black Warrior Review
Box 862936
Tuscaloosa, AL 35486

The Black Warrior Review will only consider previously unpublished work.

Finalists in each category will receive notation in the Spring 2007 issue and are also considered for publication. Each entry must include name, phone number, and email on cover sheet only, as well as SASE and reading fee.

The Reading Fee is $15 per short story (up to 7500 words) and $15 per group of up to 3 poems. Make checks payable to The University of Alabama.

All contestants will also receive a complimentary one-year subscription. That’s a whole dollar cheaper than ordering by conventional means. It’s a deal, it’s a steal, it’s the sale of the century!

All entries must be postmarked by October 1, 2007. Thanks for your interest and good luck. We look forward to your submission!

JUDGE INFO:

Josh Russell is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Shane Stevens Fellowship in the Novel. He is the author of the novel Yellow Jack, the novella Dakota, the limited edition Winter on Fifth Avenue, New York, and forty stories that have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies including Black Warrior Review and New Stories from the South. He teaches in the Georgia State University creative writing programthe New South’s Writing Workshop (workshop.gsu.edu) and lives in a small town outside of Atlanta.

Dean Young has published eight collections of poetry, most recently embryoyo and Elegy on Toy Piano which was a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts as well as a 2007 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.