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…
Five Mysteries of Publishing by Lev Raphael
Despite two and a half years in a top-ranked MFA program, nobody told me anything about what the writing life was like—especially outside the shelter of academia. In our writing workshops we analyzed the short stories everyone was writing in…
2024 Summer Writing Prompts (Part 2)
We’re back with our second batch of summer writing prompts! If you’re looking for our first batch, you can find them here. We will not leave you at the mercy of writer’s block! If you do end up using one…
September Class – It’s Complicated: Entry Points for Loaded Relationships with Kayla Degala-Paraíso
Announcing The Black Fox Writing Academy’s September Class! Join us for It’s Complicated: Entry Points for Loaded Relationships with Kayla Degala-Paraíso. This class will be taught via Zoom and attendees may decide to attend live or register to receive the recorded class. …
Results of Our Fairy Tale Remix Prize!
The wait if finally over! Here are the results for our Fairy Tale Remix Prize! The Black Fox team read through so many innovative submissions. A sincere thank you to all the writers who submitted their work for us to…
A Review of Celaine Charles’s Three Hearts Stitched: Poems About Adoption by Judith E. Camann
Three Hearts Stitched: Poems About Adoption by Celaine Charles (Egret Lake Books January 2024) is a book-length triple helix. Voices of a birth mother, adoptive parents, and child entwine from a shared axis of freedom. Each voice clear in confusion,…
Celebrating the Clipboard by Noelle Sterne
Clipboards? Those remnants of the writer’s Stone Tablet Age? In this explosive Age of iPads, tablets, laptops, endlessly propagating apps, smart watches that make your coffee, and GPS trackers that pin down your editor in the Hamptons and remind her…
3 Questions for Literary Agent Leah Pierre
A Texas native, Leah Pierre briefly moved to the East Coast to attend Rosemont College to pursue her dream of working, in publishing. Not long after graduating with her B.A. in English and History, Leah found an agency home at Ladderbird Literary…
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,…
A Review of DeWitt Henry’s Restless for Words by Elizabeth Gauffreau
I found DeWitt Henry’s poetry collection Restless for Words an accessible and relatable exploration of both language and “the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself” (to quote William Faulkner). Reflection on the book as a whole engaged…
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,…