While I was taking a vacation from all my BR duties last week, the journal passed 8,000 followers on Twitter. Not bragging and, to be honest, flooding social media with posts and tweets is not our thing. But it is cool to be in a position to amplify news from our contributors and arts organizations.…
Read more » 0 CommentsBookstores are some of my favorite places. Even when I was a kid, and I knew I wasn’t allowed to get anything, I would browse the shelves for hours on end. When my parents dragged me to a mall, I inevitably found the first opportunity to disappear into a Waldens or Borders or B&N until it was…
Read more » 0 CommentsNews and Writing Prompts!Baltimore Review 2021Baltimore Review 2021, the compilation of the poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction in our Summer and Fall 2020 and Winter and Spring 2021 online issues, is now available on Amazon. Copies have been ordered for the Library of Congress, NewPages,…
Read more » 0 CommentsOur annual print compilation should be ready to send off to contributors within a day or two. Yes!_____________It was an honor to be part of the first Pier-Glass Poetry Panel on May 6, 2021, along with poets Kari Gunter-Seymour and Jeremy Page, and hosted by Stan Galloway. I checked YouTube, and now…
Read more » 0 CommentsHappy Labor Day! Great to see Marc Alan Di Martino's poem from the Spring 2019 issue translated into Italian (English version is here too)--and getting a wider audience. The poem is also the opener of his book "Unburial."------------------------Happy to report that we are almost done…
Read more » 0 CommentsHappy Monday! I see that today is Frankenstein Day, the birthday of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author of Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, published in 1818. Celebrate by reading the book for free on the Project Gutenberg site, one of 66,099 ebooks and one of 26 by Shelley you can read…
Read more » 0 CommentsWhat are you doing right now?Hunched over the table? Feet crossed? Eyebrows furrowed?Adina EdelmanNobody likes reading loads of description in a story. It drags down the flow of the narrative and is often unnecessary. But we don’t want to steer too far in the opposite direction either.Check out…
Read more » 0 CommentsOn Showing Up to WriteI think we've all read articles on showing up. We've all heard motivational quotes like "Just do it" and "Showing up is half the battle" and "Write every day." Some of us thrive in an office space with motivational posters decorated with kittens and coffee cups and fountain…
Read more » 0 CommentsHappy Monday!Last fall, we included an option to donate $5 when you submit and get “20 Prompts Inspired by Poems, Short Stories, and Creative Nonfiction Published in The Baltimore Review.” We’ll be offering a brand-new set of prompts soon—an extension to the original twenty. So, forty…
Read more » 0 CommentsWe opened our new submission period yesterday, August 1, and we look forward to reading your work. Submittable will be open for poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction submissions through November 30—unless we hit submission caps before that. We’ll give a heads-up if it looks like we’re…
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