For Scotia Gilroy, a literary translator living in Kraków, 2021 brought years of work to fruition. In that year, three publishers issued Gilroy’s translations: • Indiana University Press published the Holocaust memoir,…
Read more » 0 CommentsGive the pronunciation of Ulica Bracka a try: oo-LEE-tsa BR-R-R-A-tska.Exclaim your delight: oo! Set free those plosive endings, the slanting rhymes: tsa and tska. Roll the R. Let your stresses climb and descend with the metrical feet: amphibrach and trochee, if you like. Do this,…
Read more » 0 CommentsIn 2020, I wrote 25 writing prompts based on work we’ve published over the years. A small way of saying “thank you” to writers who donated $5 when submitting their work. In 2021, I expanded that list to 40 prompts. But 40 seemed like an odd stopping point. Not as odd as, say, 37, but not…
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Read more » 0 CommentsCongratulations to BR contributors Claire O'Connor and Maria Zoccola (fiction finalists) and Lance Larsen (poetry finalist) and to all the fine writers and journals featured in Best of the Net!Claire O'Connor, “Home From the Wars,” Spring 2021 IssueMaria Zoccola, “We Hold Our Treasurers,…
Read more » 0 CommentsDuring my last semester of college, I had the opportunity to intern at The Baltimore Review. I think it can be difficult to sum up an experience in words, especially when you spend an extended period of time in such an experience, but I want to emphasize that this internship taught me so much about…
Read more » 0 CommentsOur Winter 2022 issue was published Wednesday night, January 26! We hope that you enjoy the poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction in this issue.Congratulations to the winners of our winter contest! Their work is included in this issue. Aekta Khubchandani, Poetry Robin Tung,…
Read more » 0 CommentsTo call Stanisław Lem a science fiction writer is to define him too narrowly, but “science fiction writer” is what he is most often called. The shame is that he spent a literary lifetime redefining the possibilities and limits of humanity and technology. “Wcale nie chcemy zdobywać kosmosu,…
Read more » 0 CommentsThe following contributors' poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction were nominated for special recognition during 2021. We wish them, and all our contributors, the best as they continue to share their wonderful writing. Pushcart Nominations “Laundry,” Emily Franklin“The Man…
Read more » 0 CommentsThe sun shies from Kraków these days. For most of three weeks, we’ve awakened to fog, then lived under clouds until the sun has set. Worse, because we’re so far north the sun rushes out of the sky, tucking itself away early. Today, it will give up by twenty-to-four. It didn’t rise until…
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