Black Fox Literary Magazine (2025)

01/10/2025

DEADLINE: Today is the last day to submit your application to our Agent Alchemy Feedback Program! 🦊

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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? Black Fox is happy to announce that applications are open again for our Agent Feedback Program, Agent Alchemy. Periodically, we will open applications for a guest agent to review and provide feedback on pages and/or queries from writers.
This month, our guest agent is Leah Pierre, a senior agent at Ladderbird Literary Agency with an extensive editorial background. There will be 10 spots available for feedback on an excerpt of a novel, up to 50 pages, and 10 spots available for feedback on query letters.
Apply via our Submittable page! Link in bio!

29/09/2025

QUERYING WRITERS: Just two more days left to apply to our literary agent feedback program, Agent Alchemy!

The deets:

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? Black Fox is happy to announce that applications are open again for our Agent Feedback Program, Agent Alchemy. Periodically, we will open applications for a guest agent to review and provide feedback on pages and/or queries from writers.
This month, our guest agent is Leah Pierre, a senior agent at Ladderbird Literary Agency with an extensive editorial background. There will be 10 spots available for feedback on an excerpt of a novel, up to 50 pages, and 10 spots available for feedback on query letters.

Apply via our Submittable page! Link in bio! 🦊

23/09/2025

Highlighting , one of our fiction, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction readers. Here’s an excerpt from our feature:

“In general, I’m more drawn to character-driven work, and I’m a huge fan of writing that’s non-chronological or unfolds in unconventional ways. I tend to gravitate towards themes of family dynamics, transformation, and human connection with the environment. I also love imagery that feels strange and creative!“

-Alex Wollinka

You can read the full feature on the BFLM blog! 🦊

22/09/2025

LIAR LIAR. Our last contest for 2025 is now open! Send us your best fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry by November 30, 2025! 🦊

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Black Fox is accepting submissions for our Fall 2025 Prize. The theme for this round is “Liar Liar.” We are open to loose interpretations of the theme in any genre, as always.

We all bend the truth. Sometimes, it’s a white lie to protect someone we care about, or sometimes it’s a series of lies that become tangled to a point that threatens to collapse everything. For our final contest of 2025, we’re asking writers to dissect deception in all forms: quiet lies, shams, secrets kept, masks worn, counterfeit stories, and half-truths. We want them all. Whether it’s a person wrapped up in their own ruse, a community built on falsehoods, or a quiet moment where honesty is sacrificed for survival, write about how lies shape, devastate, or in some cases, save. Your work should uncover what hides in the shadows and show us why the truth might not always be so simple.

14/09/2025

Black Fox Literary Magazine’s literary agent feedback program, Agent Alchemy, is back!

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? Black Fox is happy to announce that applications are open again for our Agent Feedback Program, Agent Alchemy. Periodically, we will open applications for a guest agent to review and provide feedback on pages and/or queries from writers.

This month, our guest agent is Leah Pierre, a senior agent at Ladderbird Literary Agency with an extensive editorial background. There will be 10 spots available for feedback on an excerpt of a novel, up to 50 pages, and 10 spots available for feedback on query letters.

There is no application fee. 🦊

01/09/2025

How far would you get on that unfinished writing project if you spent one hour a week with your hands on the keyboard? There’s still time to join us for our September Lunch Break Writing Sessions! If you keep saying you’re going to write and then somehow end the day without a word on the page, join us! You can register on our Submittable page (link in bio)! 🦊🍂📝

01/09/2025

Submissions for our Feast Prize are now closed. Thank you to all the writers who submitted! The reading team is looking forward to starting on these and can’t wait to see how each writer interpreted the theme! 🦊

31/08/2025

LAST DAY! Today is the final day to submit your writing to our Feast Prize! Send us your best fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry! 🦊 If you’re able to share, would you mind hitting that repost button 🔁 to help us get the word out?

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Black Fox is accepting submissions for our Summer 2025
Fox Tales Prize. The theme for this round is “Feast.” We are open to loose interpretations of the theme in any genre, as always.

It’s true that food is the way we fuel our bodies. But it’s also at the center of many of our lives. Food can be tied to culture, ritual, memory, gatherings, relationships, conflict, connection, and more. It can be the lopsided pancake that marked the end of a relationship, the chocolate chip cookies that saved a friendship, or the pasta that sparked a reunion. What is the story behind a bowl of soup eaten in solitude or a chaotic family dinner?
We are looking for work that explores the emotional and sensory capacity of food. Our main requirement is that food plays a part in some way. Sweet or savory, cold, or warm, we want to create a literary feast at the Black Fox table!

31/08/2025

TWO days to go! You’ve got today and tomorrow left to send us your best fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry for our Summer Fox Tales Prize with theme: Feast! 🦊

Description:

Black Fox is accepting submissions for our Summer 2025
Fox Tales Prize. The theme for this round is “Feast.” We are open to loose interpretations of the theme in any genre, as always.

It’s true that food is the way we fuel our bodies. But it’s also at the center of many of our lives. Food can be tied to culture, ritual, memory, gatherings, relationships, conflict, connection, and more. It can be the lopsided pancake that marked the end of a relationship, the chocolate chip cookies that saved a friendship, or the pasta that sparked a reunion. What is the story behind a bowl of soup eaten in solitude or a chaotic family dinner?
We are looking for work that explores the emotional and sensory capacity of food. Our main requirement is that food plays a part in some way. Sweet or savory, cold, or warm, we want to create a literary feast at the Black Fox table!

30/08/2025

WRITER, are you polishing your submissions this weekend? THREE days left to submit your writing to our Summer Fox Tales Prize with theme: Feast! 🦊

Description:

Black Fox is accepting submissions for our Summer 2025
Fox Tales Prize. The theme for this round is “Feast.” We are open to loose interpretations of the theme in any genre, as always.

It’s true that food is the way we fuel our bodies. But it’s also at the center of many of our lives. Food can be tied to culture, ritual, memory, gatherings, relationships, conflict, connection, and more. It can be the lopsided pancake that marked the end of a relationship, the chocolate chip cookies that saved a friendship, or the pasta that sparked a reunion. What is the story behind a bowl of soup eaten in solitude or a chaotic family dinner?
We are looking for work that explores the emotional and sensory capacity of food. Our main requirement is that food plays a part in some way. Sweet or savory, cold, or warm, we want to create a literary feast at the Black Fox table!

28/08/2025

FOUR days left to send your poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction in for our Summer Fox Tales Prize with theme: Feast! 🦊

Description:

Black Fox is accepting submissions for our Summer 2025
Fox Tales Prize. The theme for this round is “Feast.” We are open to loose interpretations of the theme in any genre, as always.

It’s true that food is the way we fuel our bodies. But it’s also at the center of many of our lives. Food can be tied to culture, ritual, memory, gatherings, relationships, conflict, connection, and more. It can be the lopsided pancake that marked the end of a relationship, the chocolate chip cookies that saved a friendship, or the pasta that sparked a reunion. What is the story behind a bowl of soup eaten in solitude or a chaotic family dinner?
We are looking for work that explores the emotional and sensory capacity of food. Our main requirement is that food plays a part in some way. Sweet or savory, cold, or warm, we want to create a literary feast at the Black Fox table!

27/08/2025

Down to SIX days left to send in those subs for the Feast Prize! 🦊

Description:

Black Fox is accepting submissions for our Summer 2025
Fox Tales Prize. The theme for this round is “Feast.” We are open to loose interpretations of the theme in any genre, as always.

It’s true that food is the way we fuel our bodies. But it’s also at the center of many of our lives. Food can be tied to culture, ritual, memory, gatherings, relationships, conflict, connection, and more. It can be the lopsided pancake that marked the end of a relationship, the chocolate chip cookies that saved a friendship, or the pasta that sparked a reunion. What is the story behind a bowl of soup eaten in solitude or a chaotic family dinner?
We are looking for work that explores the emotional and sensory capacity of food. Our main requirement is that food plays a part in some way. Sweet or savory, cold, or warm, we want to create a literary feast at the Black Fox table!

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