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…
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.…
Read more » 0 CommentsCongratulations 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!
Read more » 0 CommentsAn 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…
Read more » 0 CommentsSee this visual prompt? This image is used with the permission of Andrew Abbott. Let's call it: "We did not return." Did it set the cogs and gears of your mind in motion? Excellent. Submit your response in the "Prompt Response"…
Read more » 0 CommentsHaving failed to nab a number of internships at showy magazines, I’d thought of my new job as a bookstore clerk as settling. My first impression of my bosses didn’t help quash my snobbery—six straight hours spent talking sports and handling books without a single mention of their own literary…
Read more » 0 CommentsBaltimore Review contributor Gary L. McDowell is proud to announce that his second full-length book of poetry, WEEPING AT A STRANGER'S FUNERAL, has been accepted by Dream Horse Press. The publisher is expecting a late 2013 release date." WEEPING AT A STRANGER'S FUNERAL is a book of associative and…
Read more » 0 CommentsI was catching up with the NewPages blog this morning—always a good source of literary journal news—when this November 26 blog post title caught my eye: “End of the World. End of the Book?” My heart stopped. Well, not for long. Although the post was an announcement of the River Styx issue…
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