Announcing Our 2023 Literary Contest Winners, Runner-ups, and Finalists!

For our 2023 literary contests in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, we received almost 700 entries! Thank you for sharing your brilliant work with us and our guest judges. The Bellingham Review team is thrilled to announce our contest winners, runner-ups, and finalists. We will be publishing the work of our contest winners in our upcoming Fall/Winter issue. Congrats to all!

We also wanted to give a shout-out to our amazing finalists:

Poetry:

“15 reasons why you mad Brittney Griner is free” by Valerie Smith

“Heirlooms” by Rekha Mehra

“Pansy” by C. Rees

“Pantoum as the Shape of Trauma” by Jess Yuan

Fiction:

“3 Flash Pieces” by Ananda Naima González

“Sunrise” by Cindy Hong

Nonfiction:

“The Body Liminal” by Gabriella Graceffo

“If God Wrote Me A Letter I Would Hang It On The Fridge” by Alize Portue

“hello, brightness” by Syrah Linsley

“Revising Cove Fort” by Shaun Anderson