The Spring 2020 issue of Black Fox Literary Magazine has been a long time coming! We want to thank our contributors and the community that stuck behind us during our hiatus. We appreciate your immense patience as we worked to…
Formidable Force: A Review of Lee Ann Roripaugh’s tsunami vs. the fukushima 50 by Brandy Underwood
Browsing through the table of contents in Lee Ann Roripaugh’s tsunami vs. the fukushima 50, there is an unencumbered feeling of veracity. Switching between references to a tsunami like it is a feral entity and classic superheroes, the battle is…
When a Writer Feels Like Sisyphus by David Massey
It is easy for a writer to feel like Sisyphus, rolling the boulder uphill only to have it roll back down before he can reach the top. You send a story to a lit mag and they reply that your…
AWP Virtual Book Fair + Announcement
We are so sad to say that we have decided not to attend AWP20 this year. Due to the recent threats of the Corona Virus in San Antonio, we didn’t feel safe traveling. As many small presses have expressed, making…
It’s Not Your Story: Citizenship Rules for Writers Groups by Ann S. Epstein
Writers Group Reasons and Risks Some rules of literary practice beg to be broken. Skillful writers who chafe at restrictions can do so with creative results. Certain pre- and proscriptions, however, are worth heeding, among them the proper conduct for…
The Writer as Completer of Reality by David Massey
I have written before of the necessity of a fiction writer’s belief in the story he is telling. Hallie Burnett has expressed this necessity in a few words. She wrote that “one cannot stress too often that your own credibility…
A Conversation with Heather Lang Cassera by Risa Pappas
Heather Lang Cassera holds a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry with a Certificate in Literary Translation. In 2017 she was named Las Vegas’ Best Local Writer or Poet by the readers of KNPR’s Desert Companion. Her poems have been published…
A Conversation with C.S.E. Cooney by Alicia Cole
C.S.E. Cooney lives and writes in the Borough of Queens, whose borders are water. She is an audiobook narrator, the singer/songwriter Brimstone Rhine, and author of World Fantasy Award-winning Bone Swans: Stories (Mythic Delirium 2015). Her short fiction can be found in Ellen Datlow’s Mad Hatters and March…
The 2018 Black Fox Pushcart Nominations
We are proud to announce this year’s Pushcart nominations! Congratulations to our authors! ***** 1. What You Wanted All Along by Stacy Austin Egan (Winner of the BF annual contest, Issue 17) 2. Seashells by Jesse Albatrosov (Issue 18) 3. Beach Party by Bill Pippin (Issue…
A Conversation with Angela Brown
An interview by Alicia Cole. Angela Brown was born in Meridian, Mississippi on January 5, 1969. Angela works as an assistant for the Department of Hospitality Management at the College of Southern Nevada. She found her voice through writing poetry….
Book Review by Angela Mitchell: “Thank Your Lucky Stars” by Sherrie Flick
Reading Sherrie Flick’s new collection of short fiction, Thank Your Lucky Stars (Autumn House, 2018), is a kind of literary feast, with its gathering of characters, all hungering for love and connection and a desire to better nourish both their…
After Turning the Graduation Cap Tassel to the Other Side by Alan Ferland
I didn’t go for my MFA after graduating from college almost seven years ago. A handful of my classmates went down that path with heads held high and the talent they’d developed during our times together. I didn’t follow them,…