Fall 2023 Issue - Includes a “Featured Maryland Writers” Section
by Barbara Westwood Diehl
Welcome to our fall 2023 issue, which went live on November 6!
We decided to include a special section in this issue for writers who are Maryland residents. Yes, we publish the work of writers from all over the U.S. and beyond, but we have a special place in our hearts for the locals. We are so pleased to share the work of these Maryland writers: Ned Balbo, Tara A. Elliott, Matt Hohner, Joshua Jones Lofflin, Marie Pavlicek-Wehrli, and Jane Satterfield.
We hope that you also enjoy the poems and short stories from Sascha Bissonnette, Sheila Black, Sara Burge, Brian Czyzyk, Renee Emerson, Jane McKinley, Areej Quraishi, Katherine Tunning, and Zachariah Claypole White. A good number of this issue’s contributors included comments and audio files with their work. A wonderful bonus.
Our Submittable doors are open through November 30 for poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction. We are also reading contest submissions: prose poems, flash fiction, and flash creative nonfiction. See each category’s submission guidelines if you would like your own work considered for our winter issue.
We nominated many of our contributors for awards this year: Best of the Net, the various “Best American” anthologies, and more. Pushcart nominations will go in the mail soon. We will announce all award nominees on our blog in December. See our “Awards” page for a list of BR contributors' honors.
Thank you for reading and supporting the work of writers!