by Barbara Westwood Diehl

Attention Locals:  What better present than a gift of books from Baltimore-area writers. Journals, too. Tie a few up with a big red ribbon. Or put them in a basket with wine and chocolate and one of those little clip-on lights for reading under the covers. Throw in a gorgeous blank journal and…

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

Counting down to the Winter Contest November 30 deadline. Each day, we're posting a writing prompt on the BR Facebook page--and re-posting them here. Hope you enjoy!   BR Winter Contest Theme: The Future. Idea to get you writing #13: Epigraphs. Surf through science websites looking for articles…

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

Told Siri: "Give me a creative writing prompt," and she said, "That may be beyond my abilities at the moment." Asked Siri to read me a poem, and she said, "I'm not sure that's such a good idea, Barbara. I write the fourth-worst poetry in the universe." Another try yielded: "Oh freddled…

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

The theme for The Baltimore Review’s winter contest is The Future. The future of--what? That's entirely up to you. A child. A marriage. A society. Art. Technology. Education. Fashion. Transportation. Ecology. Medicine. Law. Religion. Cultural norms. Later life in this world or…

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

The Baltimore Review presents a video interview with celebrated poet Elizabeth Spires. The interview was conducted by Baltimore Review editor and fellow poet Michael Salcman on the campus of Goucher College, where Spires currently teaches the craft of poetry. The interview was filmed by Grant…

by Liv Lansdale

LL: I often find myself thinking of creative nonfiction as a less imaginative genre, though plenty of essayists and op-ed writers insist otherwise.  Could you discuss the role imagination plays in your writing?  DWM: There are two ways imagination comes into play with creative nonfiction.…

by Kathleen Hellen

The interview was conducted on December 4, 2009, prior to the publication of his collection, Orphan Hours. The interview originally appeared in the Summer/Fall 2010 issue of The Baltimore Review.   KH: Can you talk about what you call the “abrupt edge”? SP: The abrupt edge is actually an…

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

I took a short break from getting the summer online issue ready for the August 1 launch to dust and sort books. Many have been on the shelf since we moved into the house twenty-some years ago. (We haven’t painted the living room in a very long time.) Some of these books I’ll keep, some will…

by Ian Lashley McIntosh

Jen Michalski is a local author in Baltimore area who has published three books this year alone—the most recent being her debut novel The Tide King (winner of  Black Lawrence Press's Big Moose Prize).  In this gripping story about mortality and emotional connections,…