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…