Announcing The Black Fox Writing Academy’s May Class! Join us for Distillation and Transplantation: A Guide to Processing Trauma through Fiction with Mary Shaver. This class will be held live via Zoom and will NOT be recorded. Class Description: Writing about trauma…
2025 National Poetry Month Prompts
Happy National Poetry Month! We couldn’t end the month without leaving you with a few prompts. The wonderful thing is that you can use these prompts for inspiration beyond National Poetry Month—and you can even use them to write in…
2025 Winter Writing Prompts (Part 2)
The tackling of writer’s block continues even as winter winds down! We have a second batch of winter writing prompts as promised. We’ve really enjoyed posting prompts, so be on the lookout for spring prompts next. If you do end…
Results of Our Portraits of Failure Contest (Summer Fox Tales)!
Annnnd it’s official! The results are here for our Summer Fox Tales Contest with theme, Portraits of Failure! The Black Fox team is ready for a much needed winter break, but we’re thrilled to have read some stellar work. A…
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…
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…
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…
2024 Summer Writing Prompts (Part 1)
Beat writer’s block this summer with some of our prompts! This is part one of (?). We’ll post a new batch of prompts to inspire you throughout the summer! If you do end up using one of our prompts, please…
Agent Alchemy Feedback Program with Literary Agent Leah Pierre
Introducing Agent Alchemy, Black Fox Literary Magazine’s new literary agent feedback program. Every novelist faces hurdles when shaping their manuscripts or on their road to representation. Who better to offer you craft-based insight on your pages than a literary agent?…
May 2024 National Short Story Month Prompts
We had a blast inspiring you to write short stories this month and we hope you did too! Below is a compiled list of the prompts we posted on our Instagram page throughout the month of May. Feel free to…
April Poetry Workshop: Poetic Forms with Heather Lang-Cassera
Join Black Fox Literary Magazine and Heather-Lang Cassera via Zoom for a 2-hr. exploration of poetic forms including the awdl gywydd, pantoum, and more. Throughout this generative writing workshop, poets will read and write in an encouraging online environment. Participants…