2.16.2012

Contest Theme for Summer Issue is (drum roll, please) -  Heat!

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

It’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…

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1.27.2012

Our First Online Issue

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

Welcome 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…

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1.26.2012

We Lion

by Kathleen Hellen

The 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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