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"Boyfriend Village is Black Warrior Review’s online edition, released once and sometimes twice a year. "
Introduction
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1-6 months
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Need to know for submitting

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      Simultaneous submissions

      Yes

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      Previously published

      No

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      Payment

      pays

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      Fee

      $0-3

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      Expedited response

      No

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      Available in print

      No

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      Provide contributor copies

      No

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      Examples online

      Yes

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      Active on social media

      Yes

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    Important stuff

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    How to submit 🏗️

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    Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️

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    Awards

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    Demographics & Eligibility

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    Formatting requirements 🏗️

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    Rights for published work 🏗️

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Types of Submissions Accepted

6 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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Poetry

Max pieces: 5

up to 5 poems with a maximum of 10 pages

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Fiction

Max words: 7000

Max pieces: 1

We want work that familiarizes the strange and mystifies the familiar. We are interested in reading anything that you wouldn’t—or couldn’t—send elsewhere, because you don’t feel like it fully fits anywhere.

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Nonfiction

Max words: 7000

Max pieces: 1

We are on the lookout for essays that make us rethink our perspectives on life, on art, on the very definition of the essay itself as an art form.

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Comics

Max pieces: 2

Graphic novel or memoir in short form.

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Hybrid

Max pieces: 2

Graphic novel or memoir in short form.

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Art

Graphic novel or memoir in short form.

poetry genre icon

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

up to 5 poems with a maximum of 10 pages

fiction genre icon

Fiction

Max words: 7000

Max pieces: 1

We want work that familiarizes the strange and mystifies the familiar. We are interested in reading anything that you wouldn’t—or couldn’t—send elsewhere, because you don’t feel like it fully fits anywhere.

all

nonfiction genre icon

Nonfiction

Max words: 7000

Max pieces: 1

We are on the lookout for essays that make us rethink our perspectives on life, on art, on the very definition of the essay itself as an art form.

comics genre icon

Comics

Max pieces: 2

Graphic novel or memoir in short form.

Magazine

Founded in 2018 | United States

Masthead

We currently list only main editors, more will be added later! If you are an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)

Katie DeLay
Editor-in-Chief
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