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…
Results of Our Montage of Misfortunes Contest (Spring Fox Tales)!
The results are in! Here are the results for our Spring Fox Tales Contest with theme, Montage of Misfortunes! The Black Fox team is exhausted but thrilled to have read some outstanding work. A heartfelt thank you to all the…
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…
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…
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…