We are pleased to again present Stephen J. West's creative nonfiction work "The Drive from Morgantown to Baltimore," which appeared in The Baltimore Review's Winter 2012 (first online) issue. This 630-word piece about a drive to the Wilmer Eye Institute in Baltimore packs a powerful experience for…
Read more » 0 CommentsSo, 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…
Read more » 0 CommentsThe 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…
Read more » 0 CommentsEdgar 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,…
Read more » 0 CommentsFinal 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,…
Read more » 0 CommentsContact: 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…
Read more » 0 CommentsQ&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,…
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