Our Fall 2019 Issue is Live - Happy Thanksgiving!
by Barbara Westwood Diehl
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 strange—the stuff of nightmares mixed with a mother’s feelings of regret and love—“In Pieces” by Libby Heily. And then there’s a mysterious train station in a very short story by Ian Baaske. Very short stories can definitely leave a lasting impression, like Lillian Johnson’s story with a border marked by yellow tape inside a library, and Curtis Smith’s story about, as he writes in his comments, “first hard lessons of loss and unanswered questions.”
Not that we like all our stories incredibly strange and/or super short. I think the stories by Victor Yang (first published fiction), Clint Bentley (first published fiction)—we love publishing firsts, by the way—and A. Grifa Ismaili are wonderfully entertaining and moving stories. Well worth your time.
And we have poems by eight remarkable poets. Six of these poets have provided recordings of their poems—always a much-appreciated bonus.
No creative nonfiction in the fall issue, but we hope to remedy that in the winter issue. We still love great CNF.
Thank you, readers and writers—and submission readers, editors and proofreaders, tech experts who make online issues happen, makers and buyers of books, and all the lit lovers who keep journals thriving issue after issue.
Thank you.