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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!

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 …

BR’s Editor-in-Chief Jane Wong speaks to Seattle-based visual artist Devon Midori Hale, who is the cover artist for Issue 88. Enjoy!

The entire team at Bellingham Review is excited to share with you our spring/summer issue– Issue 88! Thank you for reading and writing!

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). …

The entire team at Bellingham Review is excited to share with you our fall/winter issue– Issue 87! Thank you for reading and writing!

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 …