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…