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WRITERS: Your are down to just FOUR days left to submit work to our Liar Liar Prize! Send us your best short fiction, cr...
26/11/2025

WRITERS: Your are down to just FOUR days left to submit work to our Liar Liar Prize! Send us your best short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry! 🦊

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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.

WRITERS: Here are the upcoming deadlines for our last contest of the year and our general submissions. If you’ve been me...
25/11/2025

WRITERS: Here are the upcoming deadlines for our last contest of the year and our general submissions. If you’ve been meaning to send us something for either our contest or any of our general categories, now is the time! You have until Sunday, November 30, 2025!

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WRITERS: ONE WEEK left to submit your short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry to our Liar Liar Prize! This will b...
23/11/2025

WRITERS: ONE WEEK left to submit your short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry to our Liar Liar Prize! This will be our last contest of 2025! 🦊

Description:

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.

Issue  #29 has been a journey. But at last, it’s here. We ran behind schedule on this one and we’d like to thank everyon...
18/11/2025

Issue #29 has been a journey. But at last, it’s here. We ran behind schedule on this one and we’d like to thank everyone involved for their patience. Shoutout to the BFLM team for all the work on this! As always, it’s free to read on our website, but you can also buy print copies to help support our efforts. Hope you love this one—we sure do! 🦊

Cover art by Sean Ewing.

TWO weeks to go for our Liar Liar Prize! Writers, you’ve got about fourteen days to polish up those submissions! Send us...
16/11/2025

TWO weeks to go for our Liar Liar Prize! Writers, you’ve got about fourteen days to polish up those submissions! Send us your best short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry! 🦊

Description:

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.

POV: You’re a writer and you found a contest with a cool theme you want to submit to. You’ve come to the right place! Th...
09/11/2025

POV: You’re a writer and you found a contest with a cool theme you want to submit to. You’ve come to the right place! There are THREE weeks left to submit your fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry to our LIAR LIAR Prize! 🦊

Description:

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.

We know you’ve been waiting! Here’s the winner of our Mixed Messages Prize! Congratulations to .shao.books! And of cours...
05/11/2025

We know you’ve been waiting! Here’s the winner of our Mixed Messages Prize! Congratulations to .shao.books! And of course, shout out to our longlisters and every writer who submitted! Bonnie’s poem, “bad bilingual” will be published in Issue 29, which is on its way! 🦊

Happy Sunday, writers! We have four weeks left to deadline for our last writing contest of 2025! We are looking for fict...
02/11/2025

Happy Sunday, writers! We have four weeks left to deadline for our last writing contest of 2025! We are looking for fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry on the theme “Liar Liar.” Send us your best by November 30, 2025!

Description:

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.

LIAR LIAR is our last contest for 2025, writers! We are down to just 5 weeks left to submit your best fiction, poetry, o...
26/10/2025

LIAR LIAR is our last contest for 2025, writers! We are down to just 5 weeks left to submit your best fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction! 🦊

Description:

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.

“My solution to this problem: Don’t start writing in a blank document.” If you’ve ever found the blank page daunting, re...
10/10/2025

“My solution to this problem: Don’t start writing in a blank document.” If you’ve ever found the blank page daunting, read “The Tyranny of the Blank Document: How to Escape It” by Gargi Mehra on the BFLM blog!

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