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 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…
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…
Announcing the Black Fox 2025 Winter Prize: Rise or Ruin
Black Fox is accepting submissions for our winter writing prize. The theme for this round is “Rise or Ruin.” We are open to loose interpretations of the theme in any genre, as always. Good reputation or bad? Reputations can mold destinies,…
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…
A Review of Lauren Kate’s What’s in A Kiss by Mary Sophie Filicetti
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…