It’s no secret that the publishing industry is overwhelmingly white and female. Our journal here at Baltimore Review is—as anyone who looks at our “staff” link can see—not wildly different. We’re not 78% white and female, but we’re mostly white and majority female. We do have…
Read more » 0 CommentsOur spring 2017 issue went live on May 7, 2017. Thanks to all our writers and readers! We hope that you enjoy the spring issue—I think you’ll find some amazing writing in this one—as well as back issues archived on the site. Our February 1 through May 31 submission period just ended with some…
Read more » 0 CommentsAdíos Hemingway by Leonardo Padura Fuentes Grove Press pp. #229 ISBN: 978-1-84195-795-1 Release: 2005 Genre: Novel Baltimore Review editor Holly Morse-Ellington was unfamiliar with the Cuban author Leonardo Padura until she traveled to Havana for a creative nonfiction workshop with Lee…
Read more » 0 CommentsCongratulations to BR contributor Nick Almeida on having his story "Watchdog" selected for Best Small Fictions 2017! And congratulations to all the winners, finalists, and semi-finalists. Happy to see other BR contributors in the lists. The guest judge for Best Small Fictions 2017 was Amy Hempel.…
Read more » 0 CommentsPartly because some of you have asked about submitting work that doesn't fit neatly into one of our categories, and partly because I'm really curious to see what will land in the queue: Announcing a new category, "None of the Above": Have something that doesn’t fit neatly into any of our poetry,…
Read more » 0 CommentsHope to see all you readers, writers, and editors in DC sometime during the AWP conference, held February 8-11, 2017! Did you know that AWP is celebrating its 50th anniversary? The Baltimore Review will have a table at the Book Fair, February 9-11, 9 am - 5 pm. Be sure to stop by. There will be…
Read more » 0 CommentsCongratulations to Sarah Giragosian on winning a "Best of the Net" award for her poem "Family History"! Congratulations, too, to all the winners and finalists. And a big thanks to Sundress Publications.
Read more » 0 CommentsWelcome to our Winter 2017 issue! This issue includes our contest winners, as well as thirteen other works—a mix of poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction. Please relax, sit back, and take some time to read this issue. Listen to the recordings, too. There are poems, stories, and essays here…
Read more » 1 CommentsThings I’ve learned in a month of reading for a literary journal, written the day after watching La-La Land. If you submit to a lot of literary journals, you’re probably familiar with the advice to regularly read the journals to which you’re submitting work. You probably also realize that you…
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