According to Hurwit’s features of the Archaic style, there are several common themes of this time period — “reliance on schemata,” “impulse for pattern,” “domination of surface and plane,” linearity, ornamentality, and “explicitness and impassivity.” While these are obviously traits…
A Review of George Saunder’s A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by David Massey
Doubtless George Saunders’s A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life has been reviewed to a frazzle by now, but I also believe many of Black Fox’s…
Is this Novel Homeward Bound? By David Massey
I want to say a few words about what to me is a slippery subject: narrative arc. Not so much in the short story: I know what a short story is, and I am able to achieve the single effect…
Black Fox Literary Magazine Issue #20 is Here!
The Winter 2021 issue of Black Fox Literary Magazine is here at last! Thank you to our contributors and loyal readers who stuck by us as we tried to get this issue off the ground. We have a lot in…
Black Fox Literary Magazine Issue #19 is Here!
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…