Inside a curtained photo booth, a father and his 3-year-old son—a camera flash-captures their smiles and laughter: a mini-eight portrait-souvenir of a joyful moment spent in New York’s Time Square. It’s 1955, the same year this father, 36-year-old Lee Rogow,…
2024 Autumn Writing Prompts (Part 1)
We’re helping you banish writer’s block this fall with a fresh batch of our prompts! This is part one! We’ll post another batch of autumn prompts to inspire you later in the season. If you do end up using one…
Results of Our Rhapsody of Regret Prize!
We would like to sincerely thank all the writers who entered their work for consideration in our Rhapsody of Regret Prize! We recognize the tremendous amount of willpower and bravery that comes with sending your work out into the world,…
How to Write a Saturation Poem by Jennifer Jean
For years, I’ve been trying to write an ekphrastic poem about Gustav Klimt’s posthumous portrait Ria Munk III. I’ve tried every kind of approach to an ekphrastic that I know: describing the artwork, writing from the viewpoint of an object…
As I Loved You by Kris Faatz
Winner of the Fox Tales “Music” Contest Dad’s guitar bites back. That’s why Grace never could play it, even when Dad tried to teach her before he left for France, so you can play for me when I come home,…
2023 Pushcart Nominations
We can’t believe it’s that time again! It’s time to announce our nominations for the Pushcart Prize! Here they are! Prose Let the Dying Dog Dig by Taylor Leigh Harper (Issue 24) The Chickpea by Rosemarie Dillon (Issue 24) What…
5 Prompts to Use with Our Contest Theme: Rhapsody of Regret (Part 1)
We were so excited about our current writing contest theme, Rhapsody of Regret, that we decided to suggest a few prompts to get those writing wheels turning! Even if you don’t plan to submit to the Black Fox Prize, these…
The Results for Our Secrets Unraveled Contest!
A heartfelt thanks to all the writers who entrusted us with their work for our Secrets Unraveled Contest! Even if your name isn’t listed on this page, please know that the team was honored to have read your work! We…
Introducing the New Black Fox Lit Readers!
The Black Fox team is pleased to announce our newest additions! Please welcome the nine writers who will be joining our reading team. We will be introducing them individually on our Instagram account over the next few weeks! They’ll be…
Guest Post: On Lena Dunham and Growing Up By Sarah Goncalves
Maturity has a strange way of sneaking up on you. A few years ago, I had watched the first few episodes of Girls, written by and starring girls’ girl Lena Dunham. At the time, I lauded it (as many critics…
Guest Post: Equine Inspiration by Alex Mullarky
Equine Inspiration When I was growing up I was aware of two distinct sides of my personality developing at the same time. On one side, there was an avid reader and aspiring writer who dreamed of bestselling novels and signing…
BFLM’s 2015 Pushcart Nominations
Black Fox Literary Magazine is pleased to announce our nominations for the 2016 Pushcart Prize: Fiction: Murdo, By Southwest by Mark Heydon (Issue #12, Summer 2015) Geographic Cure by Amy Yolanda Castillo (Issue #11, Winter 2015) Nonfiction: It’s Still Me…