In 2007, I attended a writer's conference and was manning the Baltimore Review table, meeting new and established writers and sharing information about our journal and the type of work we accepted. However, I remember distinctly feeling that the panels offered at the conference were not especially…
Read more » 0 CommentsI’ve been thinking about the mystery of author names, how the name of a poet or writer will sometimes seem exquisitely fitting, like it’s an emblem of the work. And there’s music in a name. The “Billy” in Billy Collins catches something about that poet’s intimate tone; it’s like a…
Read more » 0 CommentsJessica Anya Blau is one of Baltimore’s most esteemed novelists. She is the author of The Summer of Naked Swim Parties (2008) and Drinking Closer to Home (2011), both of which have received immense praise by the Today Show, The New York Post, New York Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle and the…
Read more » 0 CommentsIt’s energy. It’s intensity. It’s passion. It consumes you. It dissolves, melts, bakes. It’s a fever, or just a blush. It’s a night in a cheap motel, a barefoot walk on hot sand, a complicated meal in a rowhouse kitchen. It’s nuclear fusion or the Senate floor. It’s jalapeno and…
Read more » 0 CommentsWelcome to the first online issue of The Baltimore Review. The response to our call for submissions was overwhelming—and I mean that in a good way. Writers, it was an honor to read your work. If you submitted work and haven’t heard from us, please know that you haven’t been forgotten. We are…
Read more » 0 CommentsThe 2011 contest entries opened doors to many rooms: Living rooms, dying rooms. Waiting rooms, prison rooms. Rooms that ask you to come in, rooms that warn to stay away. Clean rooms, hidden rooms. Bar rooms, back rooms, bare rooms. For me as a writer, as a woman, as a woman and a writer, The Room…
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