The Black Fox Writing Academy has a new workshop on the block! Join us for Eco and Nature Poetry with Heather Lang-Cassera, Black Fox Poetry Editor! This class will be taught via Zoom and poets of all levels may register…
Introducing the New Black Fox Lit Readers!
The Black Fox team is pleased to announce our newest additions! Please welcome the nine writers who will be joining our reading team. We will be introducing them individually on our Instagram account over the next few weeks! They’ll be…
La Vie En Rose by Jerrice J. Baptiste
As a little girl, I often encountered dead bodies on my way to school during the Baby Doc dictatorship in the 1980’s. We’d hear the gunshots fired outside of my Catholic school and take cover under our desks. There were…
How to Write a Book While Parenting by Isabel Mader
When your second child is born, you and your partner will decide that it makes the most sense for you to be a stay-at-home parent for a little while. Not forever, just for a little while. And you are thrilled…
Welcome Guest Editor Heather Lang-Cassera!
If you’re a newsletter subscriber, then you already know we’ve got lots of BIG plans for Black Fox Literary Magazine this year. Today we’re announcing one of them! Over the years, we’ve received requests from poets asking if we ever…
Hemingway Looks at Himself by David Massey
Ernest Hemingway led a famously adventurous life, going to wars when he did not have to, hunting big game (and getting a great nonfiction novel, Green Hills of Africa, out of it), becoming an afficionado of bullfighting, boxing in his…
5 Prompts for National Poetry Month
One of my favorite things to do is participate in National Poetry Month! I don’t consider myself to be a poet, but I love writing poems without the pressure of trying to get them placed. I leave that for my…
Issue #24 of Black Fox (Winter 2023) is Here!
The Winter 2023 edition of Black Fox Literary Magazine has arrived! We express our deepest gratitude to all the talented contributors who have entrusted us with their exceptional work, enabling us to sustain our commitment to publishing excellence. We also…
2022 Pushcart Nominations
Congratulations to our nominees for the 2022 Pushcart Prize! It was such an honor to publish these talented writers! Prose “Blank Speech Bubbles” by Theresa Sylvester (Issue 23) “Crossed Lines” by Michele Wolfe (Issue 23) “Breaking Kayfabe” by Melissa Grunow…
On Styles by David Massey
I’ve been thinking about styles in writing. Narration, dialogue, description, syntax—all these things. By far my favorite American fiction writer is William Faulkner, and if I had it in me, I would probably write like him; but I like sparer styles,…
Writing Advice from the Murder Hornet by PS Nolf
I look at the newspaper photo of the latest invader of the Pacific Northwest, where I live. The yellow ruler with its black calibration documents the two-inch “Murder Hornet.” A thing of nightmares, the Asian Giant Hornet sports huge, black, demon…
Character Fill-In-the-Blank by Rod Martinez
Our love for the written word may have been generated from any number of avenues growing up. We, as artists and students of our beloved art, yearn to learn as much as possible about our craft. That is where the…