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…
Read more » 0 CommentsPhoto: 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…
Read more » 0 CommentsNot 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…
Read more » 2 CommentsWriters! 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,…
Read more » 0 CommentsSeven 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,…
Read more » 0 CommentsWriting is a solitary activity, and let’s face it: as writers, with our noses buried in our elaborately created worlds, it is easy to be imbued with a false sense of arrogance about our work. Yes, I said it. Writers are arrogant. Now, don’t get me wrong: I’m not knocking arrogance! It…
Read more » 1 CommentsCongratulations to the winners of our summer contest! The theme for our contest was "Crime," and I think you'll find the theme used in fresh ways by our contest winners, as well as a number of other contributors to this issue. You'll meet quite a range of characters set precariously on the…
Read more » 0 CommentsWe would like a group of writers to road-test a one-week online workshop for us. Only $21. Seven Scenes for Fiction Writers! 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…
Read more » 0 CommentsWe called upon our editors to share the stacks of reading material on their nightstands with this directive: Please don't edit or weed out guilty pleasure books and beach reads—unless they're REALLY guilty reads. Here’s a compilation of what we’re actually reading, or at least dreaming of…
Read more » 1 CommentsMillion Writers nominations time. Don't see a deadline on the site, but an email I received mentioned mid-August. But no point in waiting, right? Go ahead and nominate. See instructions on the storySouth website. http://www.storysouth.com/millionwriters.html
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