With a global pandemic comes time to read. While for some this time is non-existent—those stocking grocery stores, delivering our food, or on the frontlines of this medical crisis—others may find a silver lining in the time to explore themselves and other worlds through literature. As we…
Read more » 0 CommentsThe Baltimore Review is often in need of readers in all genres. With over 8,000 submissions/year, we definitely need a village of readers to vote/comment on submissions, so that we can respond to writers in a timely way. Readers get experience on the editor side of Submittable (always an eye-opening…
Read more » 0 CommentsSo we’re now into the last month of our current submission period. No theme for our summer contest. Subject matter is entirely up to you. Surprise us. But keep it short. See how much you can accomplish, how much of an impact you can have, with a small number of words. We want to…
Read more » 0 CommentsSo this month, we shine the spotlight on poems and the poetry craft. (Fiction and CNF, you'll get your turn later.) I know that journals everywhere will be shining a light on poems this month. A floodlight on poems. Poems we love. Poems that are branded into our memories. Poems that educated us in a…
Read more » 0 CommentsWelcome to our winter 2020 issue! We hope that you enjoy the poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction in this issue as much as we do. Definitely some remarkable and memorable work here. Congratulations to our winter contest winners, who are included in this issue! Omer Friedlander,…
Read more » 0 CommentsWelcome to the fall 2019 issue of The Baltimore Review! Later than usual due to publishing the Maryland Writers special issue in October—but well worth the wait. Just in time for Thanksgiving, we have a story by Adam Byko, “The Automatic Man,” with a strange Thanksgiving tradition. Also…
Read more » 0 CommentsThis is a first for The Baltimore Review—a special issue showcasing the work of Maryland writers. We selected ten works from the submissions we received: a mix of poems, fiction, creative nonfiction, an essay by Maryland’s Poet Laureate, Grace Cavalieri, and a multimedia journalism project with…
Read more » 0 CommentsSetting the Family Free Eric Goodman Apprentice House Press, ISBN 9781627202169 193 pp. 2019 Setting the Family Free, by Baltimore writer Eric Goodman, is a riveting page-turner based on actual events. Eight years ago, a collector of exotic animals in Zanesville, Ohio, set his menagerie free…
Read more » 0 CommentsWriters never just write. Taking experience, be it good or bad, and turning it into something others can gain from is incredible. Great writers spin the straw of experience into gold. I started an internship with the Baltimore Review at the beginning of July. As a shaky foal entering the editors’…
Read more » 0 CommentsThe theme for the winter contest is Rituals. Rituals, rites, routines, ceremonies, habits, patterns of behavior. Religious, mating, workplace, home life, every aspect of life. Rituals that are ingrained in us. Rituals of other cultures. Practices that make you feel accepted or excluded, comfortable…
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