In 2009 I began a novel, When I Fell,with the purpose of shedding baggage I’d been collecting: adapting to my son’s severe autism; resigning my academic job in order to try to give him the best start; accepting my own…
Guest Post: A Legal Job by Brad Garber
I have a legal job. There are lots of jobs that have connections to the “legal” world. One could be a legal secretary (the ones who do all of the work), or a paralegal (an animal that is a cross…
Guest Post: Writing at the Brink by Elizabeth Jane Whittington
New Hampshire is bipolar this spring. The weather swings from darkly grim to bright. An early melt floods the frosty earth with enough warmth in March to coax tulips and daffodils up through the soil, then sudden cold drops the…
Guest Post: The Importance of Hickory-Nut Hunting by W. Royce Adams
Although I’m looking back decades into the ‘50s, I still remember my first college freshman English class assignment. I had been placed in what was then called “dumbbell English,” or Subject A, a course designed for those who didn’t qualify…
Guest Post: The Domestication of the Poet by Lauren Sartor
The current trend of writing poetry has made it so that more and more poets can sustain a living in the periphery of creative writing. The advent of MFA programs, the uptick of blogs and magazines and the general increased…
Guest Post: Becoming a Real Writer: the Creative Writing Major by Colleen Fullin
I recently received an email from a young woman asking for advice. She is a junior at the fine arts high school I attended more than ten years ago. She contacted me at the email address affiliated with my school,…
Guest Post: Sea Change or How do you swim wearing weights? by Trina Gaynon
My definition of self is tied to my writing life. As an anchor it’s heavy enough, but its efficiency tends to depend on whether or not new poems are being turned out on a regular basis, without a great deal…
Guest Post: On Lena Dunham and Growing Up By Sarah Goncalves
Maturity has a strange way of sneaking up on you. A few years ago, I had watched the first few episodes of Girls, written by and starring girls’ girl Lena Dunham. At the time, I lauded it (as many critics…
Guest Post: Equine Inspiration by Alex Mullarky
Equine Inspiration When I was growing up I was aware of two distinct sides of my personality developing at the same time. On one side, there was an avid reader and aspiring writer who dreamed of bestselling novels and signing…
Guest Post: Shaped by Our Childhoods by Diana Raab
Shaped by Our Childhoods “We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are.” Anaïs Nin How do the events of our childhoods affect our adult passions and mold who we become? Some believe that our…
BFLM’s 2015 Pushcart Nominations
Black Fox Literary Magazine is pleased to announce our nominations for the 2016 Pushcart Prize: Fiction: Murdo, By Southwest by Mark Heydon (Issue #12, Summer 2015) Geographic Cure by Amy Yolanda Castillo (Issue #11, Winter 2015) Nonfiction: It’s Still Me…
Review: Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto
Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto, a Review by Carissa K. Cullum As summer comes to a quiet end, a new patient by the name of Julia Dey arrives at the front steps of Suvanto, though it’s unclear as to…