Black Warrior Review (BWR) is a non-profit American literary magazine founded in 1974 and based at the University of Alabama.

[1] It is the oldest continuously run literary journal by graduate students in the United States.

Published in print biannually, and online annually, BWR features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and art.

The Spring 1978 issue was the first to feature graphics and included a photo essay by Diane Mastin.

[5] Boyfriend Village is named after a short story by a former editor of BWR, Zach Doss, who died on March 15, 2018.