Black Horse Review

28/02/2021

“Also, there is much more ignorance about Arabic and Arab literature, and Arab countries, than the ignorance of us about the rest of the world. We have dictators, we have a stupid education s…

08/02/2021

How to purge your writing of exceptionally fine phrases such as “She had an ass for days.”

13/01/2021

Our good friend, poet Ilya Kaminsky, knows contemporary poetry like no one else. We’re proud to be publishing his mini-reviews and one-question int...

20/05/2020

Black Horse Review's Summer 2020 calls are open. They are currently welcoming poetry, short fiction, and one-act plays. Deadline: June 2. http://www.blackhorsereview.com/submit.html

15/05/2020

14/05/2020

Submittable's weekly newsletter contains news about creative arts and writing, with opportunities from The Syndrome Mag, 805 Lit + Art, and more.

11/05/2020

Mieko Kawakami, whose novel “Breasts and Eggs” was just published in English, has become something of a feminist icon in her male-dominated country.

19/04/2020

We are open for submissions! Click here to submit your work: https://bit.ly/3bkTEox

We publish daring work that is innovative, striking, and emotive in its narrative and ideas. We welcome poetry, short fiction, and creative non-fiction by published and unpublished writers. We read...

25/01/2020

Our dignified survival as a species probably depends on finding ways to listen to each other.

07/12/2019

POETRY: 'What Business is a Church' by Haolun Xu.

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what business is a church at sea, a lighthouse in the wake of the coming tides the old ways with the cornered steps / the waves breaking each month apart like clockwork because that's how the moon...

02/12/2019

CREATIVE NONFICTION: 'Crutch Run' by Walter Rafael Garcia.

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C andy fell from the piñata as Rory swung his crutch. He played a losing game for the little league Mets the day before. Imitation imitates life. “Feel better kid,” is what...

28/11/2019

CREATIVE NONFICTION: ‘A Female Fighter’ by Debra Des Vignes.

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A s I drive from Indianapolis to the boxing gym, I feel my anger rising. My son’s farm accident is still fresh in my mind. And friends, I don’t even want to think about friends. At the gym,...

25/11/2019

‪POETRY: ‘Wulf’ by Nicholas Roberts. ‬

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Custom was to exchange gifts When a loved one had fallen Into the wrong hands. So our fathers did, And so we did when Wulf was brought away. I received: a comb, two shawls, A rosary and six cups In...

24/11/2019

SHORT FICTION: 'Sea Ranch' by Mitchel Duran.

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T hat night, right in the middle of it, like so many others past, I woke up from a dream. TV was on somewhere with someone shouting crimes I assumed were true and were easy to believe but hard...

22/11/2019

POETRY: 'Haiku Psalm for a T Place' by Hunter Sanders.

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i. Cloud passes the sun, [Delayed illumination] solar wink, shades glow. ​Selah. ii. Cloud passes anon. Red curtain glows, dims again. Yellow curtain glows. Selah. iii. Milk hisses with steam....

20/11/2019

SHORT FICTION: 'Intimacies Without Words' by Robert Earle.

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I was having intimate relationships with two Word Count Feminists (WCFs) and decided to look into WCF’s origins—probably not in the interests of science. Turned out that back in the 1980s...