Lauren Kate, author of the richly envisioned, best-selling YA fantasy Fallen series, has applied her talent for world-building to What’s in a Kiss, a literary romance for adults. As in Fallen, Kate’s fast-paced plot manages tension and expectations as it…
A Review of Zack Rogow’s Hugging My Father’s Ghost by Wendy Mannis Scher
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 Pushcart Nominations
Another year, another round of Pushcart nominations! As always, narrowing this list down to six is incredibly difficult. We wish we could nominate all of our contributors. Alas, we cannot. We are proud of each and every one of you…
2024 Autumn Writing Prompts (Part 2)
We’re continuing to help banish your writer’s block this fall with a second batch of our autumn prompts! If you’ve been waiting for part two, here it is! We hope to keep posting prompts, so be on the lookout for…
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…
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…