11.12.2015

Throwback Thursday - “The Dress,” by Naomi Kimbell

by Holly Sneeringer

So, we’ll be looking back into our archives every Thursday (or every other, or a few here and there) to highlight a piece from one of our previous issues. We’ll be letting you know our thoughts, reading it now—and letting these stories and poems and essays live on a bit longer. What I noticed…

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10.27.2015

Baltimore Review Fall 2015 Issue is Live

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

The Baltimore Review editors are pleased to present the Fall 2015 issue! A prime number (17) of poems, stories, and works of creative nonfiction. So please, make yourselves comfortable, pour a glass of good wine or a cup of fragrant tea, and read. Read more than once. If you read something that…

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10.18.2015

Instrumental Notes from Writers in Bands

by Holly Morse-Ellington

Edgar Allen Poe’s cask of poems and stories has inspired musicians from the classical strings to the punk screams. From André Caplet's Conte fantastique and Rachmaninoff's choral symphony The Bells, to Bob Dylan's "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues," to Queen’s "Nevermore" written by Freddie Mercury,…

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9.18.2015

The Baltimore Review’s Winter Contest Theme:  Health

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

Final Judge for the Contest: Joanna Pearson, MD   Link to the Submit page (and that big blue Submit button): http://baltimorereview.org/index.php/submit Pssst. For students in Schools of Public Health, Medicine, and Nursing only:  On the contest submission deadline date (November 30,…

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9.5.2015

FSU Center for Literary Arts Announces Winners of One-Act Playwriting Competition

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

Contact: Limestone Connection limestoneconnection@gmail.com   FSU Center for Literary Arts Announces Winners of One-Act Playwriting Competition   The Frostburg Center for Literary Arts announces “Fifty Miles Away” by Jason Tinney of Frederick, Md., and Holly Morse-Ellington of…

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9.1.2015

Creating Safe Spaces for Student Writers

by Lisa Lance

Q&A with Patrice Hutton, Founder of Writers in Baltimore Schools Last year, I had the privilege to volunteer as an instructor for Writers in Baltimore Schools (WBS), teaching a weekly creative writing workshop to fifth grade students at Waverly Elementary/Middle School. It was one of the most…

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8.27.2015

Still Summer:  Stories, Essays, Poems

by Holly Sneeringer

    Photo: http://baltimorereview.org/index.php/summer_2012/contributor/jon-lance-bacon . by Jon Lance Bacon --a visual prompt for our Summer 2012 issue)   As schools and classrooms begin to fill up and our summer days are waning, here our some of our editors’ picks to…

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8.7.2015

With best wishes, Aleksandar Hemon

by Bobbi Nicotera

Not long after receiving my MA in writing from Johns Hopkins University, my favorite living author, the writer who had been such a huge influence on my work during grad school, Aleksandar Hemon, was giving a reading in Manhattan. I reacted to the news of this event like a teenage girl sitting in the…

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8.5.2015

Writing Boot Camp

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

Writers! Have you ever mused at the mystery of what makes editors tick, or why they publish the work they do? Have you longed for personalized feedback from the people making the decisions? Now is your chance! Baltimore’s premier literary journal, The Baltimore Review, which publishes fiction,…

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8.3.2015

Seven Scenes for Fiction Writers, Vol. 2

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

Seven Scenes for Fiction Writers, Vol. 2   A Project of The Baltimore Review Seven Scenes for Fiction Writers is a one-week (+) opportunity for writers to practice writing vivid scenes and to give and receive structured feedback on a user-friendly learning platform. Each day beginning Saturday,…

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