Writing is tricky. The process is unique to each writer. And just when you think you understand it, it changes. It churns. It dives. It flows. Following just one route never works. How can you stay the course when the…
A Conversation with Jen Knox
An interview by Alicia Cole. Jen Knox is a writing coach and academic programs manager. Her writing can be found in The Best Small Fictions 2017, edited by Amy Hempel (Braddock Avenue Books), The Short Story America Anthology, Chicago Tribune,…
The Joys of Coming Late to the Table: An Older Writer Shares Life Advice by L Mari Harris
Confession: I am fifty years old, and even though I’ve been writing for decades, I did not start submitting my work until last year. I earned both my undergrad and graduate degrees in English Literature in the late 80s, where…
Pushcart Prize Nominations
Black Fox Literary Magazine is pleased to announce our Pushcart Prize nominations for the 2017 year! After the Burning by Brigette Stevenson (Issue 16) Spilled Milk by Lisa Harris (Issue 16) The Next One After the Last by Eric Rasmussen…
A Conversation with Ephraim Scott Sommers
An interview by Alicia Cole. A singer-songwriter and poet from Atascadero, California, Ephraim Scott Sommers is the author of The Night We Set the Dead Kid on Fire (Tebot Bach 2017), winner of the 2016 Patricia Bibby First Book Award….
Snipping Knots and Getting Somewhere: Short Comments on “Good Old Neon,” a Not-So-Short Short Story by David Foster Wallace, by Elias Keller
Four years before his suicide in 2008, David Foster Wallace published his final story collection, Oblivion, which includes eight pieces ranging in length from three pages to about sixty. Unlike his earlier Brief Interviews with Hideous Men collection, there’s no…