In this edition of Inside the Den, we’re featuring Raiya Shaw, who joined Black Fox as a poetry reader in November 2024. A writer and editor deeply engaged in the literary community, Raiya brings a vibrant, thoughtful perspective to the…
Inside the Den: Kimberly Potthast
In this edition of Inside the Den, we’re featuring Kimberly Potthast, who has been reading fiction and flash fiction submissions for Black Fox for just over a year. With a background in literary journals and an MFA in creative writing,…
Inside the Den: Ja’Koby Powell
In this edition of Inside the Den, we’re pleased to highlight Ja’Koby Powell, who reads both nonfiction and poetry for Black Fox. Since joining the team, Ja’Koby has brought a thoughtful, attentive presence to the queue—one grounded in a deep…
Results of Our Liar Liar Prize (Fall 2025)!
The decision is in for the BFLM Fall 2025 “Liar Liar” Prize! We’re not going to lie (see what we did there), the submissions we received were spectacular! Truly, making a final choice for this one was so difficult. Though…
Inside the Den: Alli Rense
In this edition of Inside the Den, we’re featuring Alli Rense, who will celebrate two years on the Black Fox reading team this May. As a dedicated reader of fiction and flash fiction, Alli brings a keen appreciation for stories…
Results of Our Feast Prize (Summer 2025)!
We hope it was worth the wait! The results are in for our 2025 Summer Fox Tales Prize with theme, Feast! We were hoping to read submissions that would make us hungry and submitters didn’t disappoint! We were in complete…
The Tyranny of the Blank Document: How to Escape It by Gargi Mehra
In almost every movie or show featuring writers, you’ll see it—that one scene with the awkward pause as their fingers hover over the keyboard. A cursor ominously blinks onscreen, its on-and-off motion magnifying the intense whiteness of the blank page….
Agent Alchemy Feedback Program with Literary Agent Leah Pierre is Back!
Black Fox Literary Magazine’s literary agent feedback program, Agent Alchemy, is back! 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? Black Fox…
A Conversation with DeAnna Beachley
A resident of the West for most of her adult life, DeAnna Beachley has grown to love the Mojave Desert and the Colorado River Basin. She is a bird watcher, hiker, teacher, historian, poet, and essayist. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Red Rock Review, Sandstone & Silver, The Nature of Our…
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…
How to Support Small Presses for Small Press Month
Did you know March is Small Press Month? If you didn’t, now you do! I am planning to support a few of my favorite presses this month by purchasing copies of their journals/published books. I thought it might be a…
2025 Winter Writing Prompts (Part 1)
There will be no writer’s block on our watch this winter! We have a new batch of winter prompts as promised. We hope to keep posting prompts, so be on the lookout for part two next. If you do end…