9.6.2012

Baltimore Book Festival

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

  Be sure to stop by our booth at the Baltimore Book Festival, held September 28-30, 2012! We'll be sharing a booth with Washington Writers Publishing House, and we think you'll like the WWPH folks, too. Hang out and chat with us. We love shmoozing with fellow writers and editors. And readers!…

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8.20.2012

“We’re Wide Open to Ideas” - Interview in The Review Review

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

Thanks to Lisa Mecham and Becky Tuch for including this interview in The Review Review. http://thereviewreview.net/interviews Many, many interviews at this site that writers should enjoy reading, as well as tips, reviews, classified, and more. Check it out.

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8.14.2012

The Literary Commute: Celebrating Beltway Poetry Quarterly and The Baltimore Review

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

In a first-ever joint project The Baltimore Review and the Beltway Poetry Quarterly come together to host some of the best regional talent in the I-495 Corridor. The two online journals will co-sponsor an afternoon of readings from featured authors to highlight the importance of literary partnership…

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8.11.2012

On Prose Poems, Race, and Chimera

by Kathleen Hellen

The behavior of the prose poem, its fearful mixing, I wear like skin. Look, and you can see that I am strange mixture: part Asian, part Western. I am the compression of these two, the repetition of parts and their fragmentation. No wonder then the form has seized my imagination, beginning with…

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8.6.2012

100-Word Challenge: Call for Prose Poems/Micro Fiction

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

Readers, you'll note that we have included five Visuals inspired by our "Heat" theme. The challenge: Respond to any of these images that spark something in you. How? Write a 100-word prose poem or micro fiction. 100 words only. Really. Not one word more. Not one word less. Email them (yes, email,…

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8.5.2012

Congratulations to the Winners of our Summer Issue “Heat” Theme Contest

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

The Baltimore Review editors are pleased to announce the winners of our Summer Issue “Heat” theme contest. We hope that readers will enjoy the winning story and poems as much as we do. All appear in our Summer Issue online and will appear in our annual print collection in 2013. Our…

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7.30.2012

Shedding the Carapace of Capital-M Meaning

by Sam Schmidt

Messages By Piotr Gwiazda Pond Road Press 2012   I began reading Piotr Gwiazda's second book of poems, Messages, just out from Pond Road Press, with the suspicion that parts of it would be difficult. Maybe it was the abstract cover design, or maybe the fact that Gwiazda teaches courses in…

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7.29.2012

Umberto’s Night by Kathleen Hellen to be published by WWPH

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

From North Avenue and Fells Point to the old mill towns in Pennsylvania’s Mon Valley, Umberto's Night—the 2012 winner of The Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from the Washington Writers’ Publishing House— is BR Senior Editor Kathleen Hellen's ghost-walk through the post-inustrial landscape. It will…

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7.24.2012

What We’re Reading

by Elise Burke

So what are The Baltimore Review editors reading? Besides submissions. Well, we're always reading submissions, and we love submissions. Especially your submissions. Yes, you. Don't get us wrong. We haven't forgotten you. It's just--sometimes we need a night out with someone new. A tryst, a fling, a…

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6.23.2012

On False Starts and Detours

by Edward Belfar

William Faulkner claimed to have written As I Lay Dying in six weeks while working at a power plant. I sometimes take that long just to get warmed up. For me, writing fiction is often a slow and difficult process, plagued with false starts and detours.  Even the false starts can be instructive,…

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