Barbara 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…
Read more » 0 CommentsMonday Miscellany for June 21, 2021 BR Updates: The summer contest finalists have been sent to our final judge, Todd Kaneko. While waiting for decisions, we're working on selecting other poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction for our summer issue, which we expect to publish in mid-July.…
Read more » 0 CommentsOur spring issue, launched April 21, features poems, fiction, and creative nonfiction by:Cezarija AbartisBryana AtkinsonRobert Erle BarhamMelinda BrasherLaura Todd CarnsCharlie ClarkWill EjzakSari FordhamLance LarsenJeff LiaoColleen MayoEd MeekScott NadelsonMike NeesClaire O'ConnorHannah…
Read more » 0 CommentsMay 15, 2021, 2:00-3:00 pm A free one-hour generative workshop for writers who crave a creativity break! Listen to prose poems and write in response to prompts. About this Event: Join Barbara Westwood Diehl, Doritt Carroll, Karen Houppert, Paige Passantino, and Asha Thanki from The Baltimore Review…
Read more » 0 CommentsTELEPHONE—yes, it's just like the kids’ game and with over 900 artists from 72 countries playing. It launched today, April 10, 2021, after the game was played through the pandemic. A reminder of connections. Vibrant connections. Crisscrossing the world.Almost a year ago, when we heard about the…
Read more » 0 CommentsLove poems, like love, can be complicated. Nuanced. Exuberant. Cautious. Lustful. Tender. Broken. Fierce. Full of regret. Full of gratitude. And so much more. We need love poems. Like we need to think and talk about love. Like we need to love and feel loved. There is so much to say about…
Read more » 0 CommentsA huge thanks to all the Winter 2021 issue contributors! There is so much to love in this writing. And congratulations to the winners of our flash fiction and flash creative nonfiction contests, Basmah Sakrani for “Intersection” and Emily James for “The Reckoning.” The issue launched on…
Read more » 0 CommentsAs 2020 comes to a close, we'd like to share good news about some of our contributors' recently published and forthcoming books. I hope that you will support our contributors, and other wonderful writers, by purchasing their books—and the literary journals in which their work appears—in the…
Read more » 0 CommentsWe want to see Maryland in your poems. A street in Baltimore. The Ocean City Boardwalk. Eating at the Korean BBQ place in Remington. Climbing the steps in the Hooper Strait Lighthouse at St. Michaels. That time you played the slots at the Rocky Gap Casino. What happened on the Light Rail…
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