What 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…
Read more » 0 CommentsAudrey GradzewiczWriter’s block can always feel excruciating, but one of the ways that I get around it is to write the names of celebrities and occupations on Post-It Notes and put them into two separate Ziploc bags. I also will keep a Ziploc bag full of verbs and a Ziploc bag full of places. When…
Read more » 0 CommentsWe are pleased to present our Summer 2021 issue with poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction by:Jeffrey BeanDavid BergmanStephen CramerVishnas R. GaitondeRobin GowClaire KortynaKelley J. P. LindbergJarid McCarthyJames McKeanChido MuchemwaPatricia PattersonLis SanchezSeher Fatema VoraJieyan…
Read more » 0 CommentsIn praise of boring books:Dictionaries, thesauruses, grammar and punctuation guides, books on usage, style guides, craft books for particular genres, all those lonely books in the reference section of the libraries and bookstores. Maybe they’re boring to you. They’re not to me. Or other writers…
Read more » 0 CommentsStarting today's Monday Miscellany with contributions from our Towson University interns, Bobby Jones, Stephanie Anderson, and Mandy Wolfe: Do you outline when you write? Do you keep it close by? Do you strictly adhere to it, or do you find ways to break away from it? There’s a lot of talk in…
Read more » 0 CommentsBarbara Westwood DiehlDo you enjoy stories that are small but mighty—and often more than a little bit quirky, strange, scary? Best Microfiction 2021 (Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke, series editors, Amber Sparks, guest editor) is available for purchase. The latest anthology includes a story by BR…
Read more » 0 CommentsMonday Miscellany for June 28, 2021 Writer’s Procrastination I’ve never been a fan of the term “writer’s block.” I don’t typically experience it. If I’m in front of the page or the screen, and I want to write something, I can easily do so. If that something I write is any…
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