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!
For our 2024 literary contests in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, we received almost 750 entries! Wow! Thank you for sharing your brilliant work with us and our guest judges. The Bellingham Review team is thrilled to announce our contest winners, runners-up, and finalists. We will be spotlighting the work of our contest winners, who will …
May 15th, 6:00pm-7:00pm PT We are so utterly excited to offer a free virtual generative writing session with poet Taneum Bambrick on the theme of slime! This session is free, virtual, and open to the public. Please register here! Taneum Bambrick is the author of Intimacies, Received (Copper Canyon Press 2022), and Vantage (American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Award 2019). …
Bellingham Review is partnering with Paper Whale’s “Fire and Story” series! On January 19th, at 5:00pm (“Lore” fire pit, Bellingham Waterfront), we will be featuring three former contributors to the journal: Troy Osaki, Shelby Handler, and Michelle Peñaloza. Our EIC Jane Wong will be emceeing. There will be a bespoke firepit, warm beverages, a food …
While our general submission period is now closed, we are accepting entries in our annual contests in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction! Please see our submissions page for more details about our guest judges, guidelines, and past winners.
Please join us in congratulating our 2024 Pushcart Prize nominees! Learn more about the Pushcart Prize here. Kenzie Allen Ben Kline Shelby Handler Diamond Forde Coby-Dillon English Ally Ang