It’s time! You have a piece you have been working on for months, you’ve had it read by peers and mentors, and you are ready to have the world read it. So where should you submit it? There are hundreds (sometimes thousands, depending…
Read more » 0 CommentsIn screening poetry submissions to the Baltimore Review, I often feel as though I am walking along a path lined with carefully curated plants. I know each plant is truly a poem, the poem pulling words from the earth and displaying them in a way that occasionally makes me pause. This pause is my…
Read more » 0 CommentsJust beyond a marsh-fringed causeway lies Chincoteague Island, Virginia. Summertime brings thousands of tourists to the island for camping, fishing, beachcombing, and a few days to slow down and breathe the salty air. If you are lucky enough to find a vacancy in July, you can watch the annual Pony…
Read more » 0 CommentsWe hope that you enjoy the poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction by the following writers in our summer 2025 issue, published today, July 15! Stefan BalanAdriana BeltranKate BroadTom BusilloDolapo DemurenSam FlasterDavid HansenD.E. HardyAndrea Figueroa-IrizarryMichael T. LawsonM.S.…
Read more » 0 CommentsTo become a better writer you must read. It seems obvious, but Emma Dries, a literary agent at Triangle House Literary and former editor at Alfred A. Knopf, Doubleday Books and Ecco, stressed that it’s absolutely necessary. I recently attended a talk by Dries at Loyola University Maryland, where…
Read more » 0 CommentsFor those of you who have never done editor speed dating, it’s a writing conference activity wherein writers bring a snippet of writing for a ten-minute one-on-one feedback session with an editor from a local literary magazine. Last week, I was fortunate to represent Baltimore Review at…
Read more » 0 CommentsWe hope that you enjoy the poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction by the following writers in our spring 2025 issue, published today, April 15! Hannah Keziah AgustinStephanie J. AndersenNicholas BarnesMerrill Oliver DouglasJake BienvenueKimberly Gibson-TranErik Harper KlassAndrea…
Read more » 0 CommentsSelected notes from my Eastern Shore Writers Association Bay-to-Ocean Writers Conference presentation on March 8, 2025 Concision and Precision in Flash FictionAnd by concision, I mean conveying meaning with as few words as possible and by precision, I mean the quality of being accurate, exact,…
Read more » 0 CommentsNo changes for our summer 2025 contest categories, but here are reminders about the guidelines and judging criteria, in case they’re helpful. Our general guidelines are provided in each Submittable category, but some additional thoughts on the short forms are included here. Keeping in mind…
Read more » 0 CommentsWe hope that you enjoy the poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction by the following writers in our winter 2025 issue, which launched on January 25:Shelley BergDawn DuplerMarika GuthrieDiane LeBlancJoanne MerriamKayla Rutledge PageTyler PattonFran QiRook RainsdowneEmily RansdellMaggie…
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