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Black Fork Review was assembled by a team of editors within Ashland University’s English Department and MFA Program during the spring of 2019. We invite poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from a wide range of aesthetics...

Launched in 2019, Black Fork Review is run by students and alumni from Ashland University and supported by Ashland Poetry Press. 

We love work that makes us consider the world and our lives in new and unexpected ways. Art can profoundly affect and connect communities. We seek work that makes us pause, challenges us, work that both interrogates and honors humanity. 

MAUREEN O’LEARY

THAYNE CASPER

ALANA DEBELINA

DIANA ROYAL

NATHAN BATCHELOR

IVEY BUFFENMYER

BRODY BUTLER

EMILY GREENSPAN

MEGAN O’LAUGHLIN

JANICE RUTLEDGE

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Writers / artists may send only one submission per genre per reading period.

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Beth Mulcahy is a poet and writer whose work has appeared in various journals. She writes to bridge the gaps between history and the self, between hurt and healing. Beth lives in Ohio with her husband and two children. She works for a company that provides technology to people without natural speech. Beth’s debut Chapbook, Firmer Ground, is available from Anxiety Press.  Learn more about Firmer Ground and check out her latest publications on her website: https://www.bethmulcahywriter.com.

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Beth Mulcahy is a poet and writer whose work has appeared in various journals. Her writing bridges the gaps between generations and self, hurt and healing. Beth lives in Ohio with her husband and two children and works for a company that provides technology to people without natural speech. 

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Beth Mulcahy (she/her) is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and writer whose work has appeared in various journals. Her writing bridges the gaps between generations and self, hurt and healing. Beth lives in Ohio with her husband and two children and works for a company that provides technology to people without natural speech. Her latest publications can be found here:  https://www.bethmulcahywriter.com/publications.html

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Beth Mulcahy (she/her) is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and writer whose work has appeared in over thirty literary journals. Beth lives in Wooster, Ohio with her husband and two children. She works for a Wooster-based company that provides technology to people without natural speech. Beth’s debut chapbook with Anxiety Press, Firmer Ground, was published in April. You can find out more about the book and check out her latest publications on her website: bethmulcahywriter.com and her free substack at https://bethmulcahy.substack.com.

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Stephanie Mohr is a Massachusetts-based scientist and writer. She is the author of First in Fly, which was named one of the best science books of 2018 by Smithsonian Magazine. Her essays have appeared online at Cognoscenti, Black Fork Review, Orion Magazine, and elsewhere.

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Your Heart, Across Prospect Park

Tiny flecks of gold swam inside twenty-one celebratory shot glasses and she drank them down one by one. A country song came on and everyone in the bar started to sing along. Cinnamon tingled and burned inside Meg’s mouth. “Only fourteen more to go,” 

Shots

The space between
shower and sleep (smells like shampoo on wet hair)
between
night and day (no one else awake yet)
between
here and there (on airplane flying over ocean)

Connecting Flights

On the Coast of Oregon

"We saw what depression looked like in a 12-year-old child and it was terrifying. I was taking him home to get help."

Alternate Flight

Two birds rest in mute 
telepathy on one side of a cross
at the apex of the oldest
church still upright and
poking at a low-slung heaven. 

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