We’re excited to share our guest judges for our 2026 literary contests in poetry (Anastacia-Reneé), fiction (Kim Fu), and nonfiction (AJ Romriell). Our contests will open on February 1st. Please visit here to learn more about our judges.
Happy new year and welcome to the year of the fire horse! The editorial team at BR is thrilled to share with you Issue 91, which features stunning new writing and art.
Bellingham Review fiction staff reader Trin Encarnacion speaks with former BR contributor Matthew Torralba Andrews about his forthcoming award-winning chapbook How to Build a Bridge Across the Ocean, out in April 2026 from C&R Press. Read Trin’s review of How to Build a Bridge Across the Ocean here and read Matthew’s flash fiction in BR …
We received over 750 submissions to our literary contests this year in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction! The BR team loved reading your work and we were honored to send along the following finalists to our guest judges: Gabrielle Bates, Laura Chow Reeve, and Lilly Dancyger. Congrats to all our incredible winners (who will receive $1,000 …
The editorial team at BR is excited to share with you one of our most beautiful issues yet — Issue 90! Please spend time with each piece, including our incredible cover artist Isha Camara’s work and our folio of writing by incarcerated writers.
Bellingham Review staff reader and incoming Poetry Editor Miriam Milena speaks to poet Patrycja Humienik about her debut collection out now from Tin House! Read Miriam’s review of We Contain Landscapes here and read Patrycja’s poem (featured in her book) in BR here.
Join poet and past contributor Luisa A. Igloria for a free and virtual generative poetry hour on 2/28, 5:00-6:00pm PT! Register here! We Carry, Are Carried A one-hour generative writing (poetry) workshop We live in a complex time marked by uncertainty, calamity, and war; grief and loss. We turn to the language of poetry in …
We are excited to share a conversation with our Issue 89 cover artist Yaminee Patel and Abby Kidd, BR’s Assistant Managing Editor — exploring the process of making “Rice Farmer,” the significance of place, diaspora, and home(s), food as an evocative archive, and honoring the farmers who feed us and their journeys.
Happy new year, dear readers! The team at Bellingham Review is thrilled to launch our fall/winter issue, Issue 89! In these pages, you’ll find moving cover art by Seattle based artist Yaminee Patel; incredible work by our 2024 literary contest winners Ye Ning (Fiction), Kira Hodgson (Poetry), and Nik Chang Hoon 임창훈 (Nonficiton), visceral poems …
