6.1.2013

Facebook Cut-and-Pastes

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

--because there are a few BR FB posts that may be worth sharing with non-FB people. And, well, I want to. May 31: Our Submittable door has closed now for our current reading period and will open again on August 1. Much work ahead for the BR editors. A record-breaking day today: 76 submissions on May…

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5.13.2013

Summer Contest Theme - Threes

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

The theme for The Baltimore Review’s summer contest is Threes. Three—what? That’s entirely up to you. Tercets. Three stanzas. Three characters. Three rooms. Three wishes. Three sisters. Three apples. A three-fingered man. Triplets. A trinity. A triumvirate. A trio. A three on the roll of the…

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4.30.2013

Spring Voices

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

How perfect is this: We’re including audio with our contributors’ work for the first time at the suggestion of—a Hollywood voiceover artist. When we accepted his Bill Ratner’s work for this issue, he offered to provide an audio file; our webmaster was happy to provide his technical know-how.…

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4.1.2013

Follow Us on Facebook for Poetry Posts this Month

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

Unless you've been cut off  from civilization while writing your opus (in which case I'm terribly jealous), you know that April is National Poetry Month. Thus, the BR editors will be posting their hearts out on Facebook this month, giving poetry the extra special attention it deserves. Prompts,…

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2.11.2013

What We’re Reading

by Elise Burke

Baltimore Review fiction editor Elise Burke recently asked some of her fellow editors to tell her what they've been reading—that is, when they're not reading your submissions.   The recently published books I recommend are Louise Glück’s Averno and Nikky Finney's Head Off & Split. Over…

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2.1.2013

Best of the Net

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

Congratulations to our two Best of the Net winners!Creative nonfiction category: Leslie Tucker, for “Packing Heat”Fiction category: Catherine Parnell, for “Morendo”

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1.15.2013

Poetry Review: Thomas Lux’s Child Made of Sand

by Liv Lansdale

Lux’s writing is luminous, and his riotous twelfth book, Child Made of Sand, is no exception. Titles like “Ermine Noose,” “The Little Three-handed Engine That Could,” and “The Anti-Lunarian League” won me over even before I read the first line of the book: “always leave quenched,”…

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1.9.2013

Six Questions For . . .

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

Thanks to Jim Harrington for including the BR on his "Six Questions For . . ." site. He has an amazing number of literary journals included there--and more to come. Interesting to read through these. Check it out.…

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1.3.2013

“Packing Heat” by Leslie Tucker to be Included in Best of the Net Anthology

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

Congratulations to Leslie Tucker, whose essay "Packing Heat," published in the summer issue of The Baltimore Review, was chosen for inclusion in the 2012 Best of the Net Anthology!

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12.30.2012

An Idea for Your 2013 Writer’s Journal (No Point Tracking or Weigh-Ins)

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

An idea for a 2013 writer's journal that doesn't feel like a chore: Plan to read one poem, prose poem, or flash fiction piece every day. (Or maybe the first page of a story.) Only one. Doesn't sound intimidating, right? If it's a short poem, you might want to write it in your journal. Or type it…

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