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…
Read more » 0 CommentsJen 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,…
Read more » 3 Comments--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…
Read more » 0 CommentsThe 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…
Read more » 0 CommentsHow 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.…
Read more » 0 CommentsUnless 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,…
Read more » 0 CommentsBaltimore 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…
Read more » 0 CommentsCongratulations to our two Best of the Net winners!Creative nonfiction category: Leslie Tucker, for “Packing Heat”Fiction category: Catherine Parnell, for “Morendo”
Read more » 0 CommentsLux’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,”…
Read more » 0 CommentsThanks 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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