Welcome 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…
Read more » 0 CommentsWelcome to our summer 2019 issue! We hope you enjoy the poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction in this issue as much as we do. Congratulations to our summer contest winners, also included in this issue: Jennifer Lang, “Uprooted” – 1st Place Morrow Dowdle, “The…
Read more » 1 CommentsGreetings from The Baltimore Review! Our latest submission period for contest and non-contest submissions just ended (May 31 at midnight). We had a record-breaking number of submissions for the February 1-May 31, 2019 period: 4,406 submissions, 238 of them received yesterday. Wow. Reviewing all…
Read more » 0 CommentsAlthough wanderlust marked me from an early age, my dreams of being a professional traveler somehow never came to pass. I’m fortunate to be able to travel more now, usually with my family, but it never feels like enough. Traveling solo is an…
Read more » 0 CommentsCongratulations to Threa Almontaser on her Best of the Net win (poetry) and to finalists Sarah Carson (poetry) and Ruby Al-Qasem (nonfiction)! Congratulations to all the writers on the Best of the Net pages, and congratulations to the editors of these fine journals who work hard to ensure that…
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