Winter 2026 Issue Published January 20, 2026
by Barbara Westwood Diehl
We hope that you enjoy the poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction by the following writers in our winter 2026 issue, published on January 20, 2026.
Cole Alexander
Rebecca Bernard
Emma Bolden
Nadia Born
Grayson Burke
Jehanne Dubrow
Ashley Hutson
L. A. Johnson
Lexi Pelle
Akshay Pendyal
Bianca Alyssa Pérez
Hayden Saunier
Patrick Vala-Haynes
Mizuki Yamamoto
Ann Yuan
Congratulations to the contest winners! And special thanks to our final judge, Mandy Moe Pwint Tu.
Jehanne Dubrow, Prose Poem
Nadia Born, Flash Fiction
Rebecca Bernard, Flash Creative Nonfiction
A huge thanks to everyone who made this issue possible.
And thank you for being a Baltimore Review reader!
Writers: Our next submission period is February 1 through May 31. No submission fee, ever, for non-contest submissions—but we’ll send you a big doc with 68 writing prompts and a bunch of tips if you donate $5.
Our next contest will be announced soon.