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 …
We are thrilled to partner again with Paper Whale in Bellingham to take part in 2025’s Fire and Story festival! We will be spotlighting three former contributing poets: Ching-In Chen, Tennison S. Black, and Miriam Milena! Join us on January 24th at 6pm (The “Story” Stage) by the Waterfront! More details here.
Our general submission period closed on December 1st. Thank you for sharing your work. We are thrilled to announce the judges for our annual literary contests in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in 2025! We will open for contest submissions from February 1st to March 15th, 2025. Please see our Submittable page for more details about …
Please congratulate our Pushcart nominees from this year: Paige Lewis, Remi Reechia, Valerie Smith, Karen Zheng, Kristin Eade, and Corey Devon Arthur! Please do check out their writing in Issue 87 and 88 respectively!
Happy fall! Our editors are excited to announce our nominations for the Best of the Net 2025 — we love our authors! Please read their pieces and more in Issue 87 and 88!
