So what are The Baltimore Review editors reading? Besides submissions. Well, we're always reading submissions, and we love submissions. Especially your submissions. Yes, you. Don't get us wrong. We haven't forgotten you. It's just--sometimes we need a night out with someone new. A tryst, a fling, a…
Read more » 0 CommentsWilliam Faulkner claimed to have written As I Lay Dying in six weeks while working at a power plant. I sometimes take that long just to get warmed up. For me, writing fiction is often a slow and difficult process, plagued with false starts and detours. Even the false starts can be instructive,…
Read more » 0 CommentsI’m sitting in the Amsterdam airport lounge, drinking another espresso, watching broadcasters broadcast news of massacres in Syria on TV. I’m on my way back to Washington from Nigeria, where I work on issues of conflict assessment, early warning, and prevention. There’s a ton of…
Read more » 0 CommentsWe are pleased to announce that Jean McGarry http://writingseminars.jhu.edu/faculty_directory/mcgarry.html has agreed to serve as the final judge for our summer contest. Please submit contest entries in all genres--fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction-- through the Contest link on the…
Read more » 0 CommentsWhy? Because Walt Whitman was born on May 31? Because William Faulker published "The Kid Learns" in 1925 and "The Tall Men" in 1941--both on May 31? Because this is the day in 1957 Arthur Miller was convicted for refusing give up the names of alleged Communist writers? Because on that…
Read more » 0 CommentsIn 2002, The BR was proud to publish "You Have to Stand for Something" by Kathleen Toomey Jabs. Now, the BR is proud to have Kathleen as a guest on the BR blog. Congratulations on the publication of your novel, Kathleen! Kathleen shares her story: “You Have to Stand for Something” was my first…
Read more » 0 CommentsA father falling from the sky, angels playing horns, holy spume, a murder of crows, grass tall as a tornado, hundreds of razorblack wings, a dismantled sun, a touch of ice, a line scratched into the horizon, a broth of sin and bliss, girls in yellow bikinis, professor curtis, a wife's…
Read more » 0 CommentsIt’s energy. It’s intensity. It’s passion. It consumes you. It bakes. It steams. It’s a fever, or a just blush. It’s a night in a cheap motel, a barefoot walk on hot sand, an hour in the interrogation room. It’s nuclear fusion or the Senate floor. It’s jalapeno and habanero peppers.…
Read more » 0 CommentsThe Baltimore Review is pleased to share the following contributor news: Ned Balbo's third book, The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems (Story Line Press, 2010), has been awarded the 2012 Poets' Prize, judged by a panel of 20 U.S. poets. The prize includes a cash award and a reading at the Nicholas…
Read more » 0 CommentsYes, the BR editors are all writers who deal in the alphabet currency every day--in denominations of words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, stanzas--with punctuation marks to make sense of it all. Some of here like to keep tabs on the numbers, too, and we thought that our readers and…
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