1.31.2020

Our Winter 2020 Issue is Live!

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

Welcome to our winter 2020 issue! We hope that you enjoy the poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction in this issue as much as we do. Definitely some remarkable and memorable work here. Congratulations to our winter contest winners, who are included in this issue!   Omer Friedlander,…

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11.27.2019

Our Fall 2019 Issue is Live - Happy Thanksgiving!

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

Welcome to the fall 2019 issue of The Baltimore Review! Later than usual due to publishing the Maryland Writers special issue in October—but well worth the wait. Just in time for Thanksgiving, we have a story by Adam Byko, “The Automatic Man,” with a strange  Thanksgiving tradition. Also…

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10.21.2019

Maryland Writers Special Issue

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

This is a first for The Baltimore Review—a special issue showcasing the work of Maryland writers. We selected ten works from the submissions we received: a mix of poems, fiction, creative nonfiction, an essay by Maryland’s Poet Laureate, Grace Cavalieri, and a multimedia journalism project with…

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9.5.2019

Review: Setting the Family Free

by Patricia Schultheis

Setting the Family Free Eric Goodman Apprentice House Press, ISBN 9781627202169 193 pp. 2019   Setting the Family Free, by Baltimore writer Eric Goodman, is a riveting page-turner based on actual events. Eight years ago, a collector of exotic animals in Zanesville, Ohio, set his menagerie free…

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8.23.2019

On a Baltimore Review Internship

by Adina Edelman

Writers never just write. Taking experience, be it good or bad, and turning it into something others can gain from is incredible. Great writers spin the straw of experience into gold. I started an internship with the Baltimore Review at the beginning of July. As a shaky foal entering the editors’…

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8.21.2019

Winter 2020 Contest Theme - Rituals

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

The theme for the winter contest is Rituals. Rituals, rites, routines, ceremonies, habits, patterns of behavior. Religious, mating, workplace, home life, every aspect of life. Rituals that are ingrained in us. Rituals of other cultures. Practices that make you feel accepted or excluded, comfortable…

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7.31.2019

Our Summer 2019 Issue is Live

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

Welcome to our summer 2019 issue!   We hope you enjoy the poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction in this issue as much as we do.   Congratulations to our summer contest winners, also included in this issue:   Jennifer Lang, “Uprooted” – 1st Place Morrow Dowdle, “The…

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6.1.2019

Baltimore Review Updates

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

Greetings from The Baltimore Review! Our latest submission period for contest and non-contest submissions just ended (May 31 at midnight). We had a record-breaking number of submissions for the February 1-May 31, 2019 period: 4,406 submissions, 238 of them received yesterday. Wow. Reviewing all…

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4.26.2019

Time to Wander: Not Your Typical AWP Post

by Julia Tagliere

                Although wanderlust marked me from an early age, my dreams of being a professional traveler somehow never came to pass. I’m fortunate to be able to travel more now, usually with my family, but it never feels like enough. Traveling solo is an…

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4.6.2019

Congratulations to our Best of the Net Winner and Finalists!

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

Congratulations to Threa Almontaser on her Best of the Net win (poetry) and to finalists Sarah Carson (poetry) and Ruby Al-Qasem (nonfiction)! Congratulations to all the writers on the Best of the Net pages, and congratulations to the editors of these fine journals who work hard to ensure that…

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