Happy September, readers! We are thrilled to share our 2024 Best of the Net nominations! We are so proud of our amazing writers! Read their work here: Coby-Dillon English, “The Paper Husband” Ally Ang, “Autoerotic Abecedarian” Shelby Handler, “Personal Ad as Portal” Keith S. Wilson, “Minotaur Suite” Ben Kline, “Eternal Flame” Jamila Osman, “Street View” …
Bellingham Review Poetry Editor Tanya Young speaks to poet Anastacia-Renée (yay for interdisciplinary art!), whose new book Side Notes from the Archivist is out now from HarperCollins! Read Tanya’s review of Side Notes from the Archivist here.
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 …
Spring is unfurling over here in the Pacific Northwest, and we are so excited to celebrate the work of our past contributors: Ally Ang (Issue 85) has a new poem in The Rumpus and is the recipient of a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. Wendy Guerra and her translators Nancy Naomi …
In 2020, at the start of the global pandemic, former Bellingham Review editors Jai Dulani and Suzanne Paola started a feature called “Resilient Pieholes” — where writers shared their work on food, cooking, comfort, home, and connection. The New York Times gave the feature a wonderful shout-out! In the past, we have published work by …
Thank you to everyone who came out to say hello during AWP in Seattle-– at the book fair and at our off-site reading featuring Keith S. Wilson and Ally Ang! And thank you for submitting to our 2023 contests. We are looking forward to reading! We will re-open for submissions this fall. With much love …
We are so excited to say hi to you during this year’s AWP Conference in Seattle! Stop by our booth (Western Washington University) #738! AND come out to hear our contributors Ally Ang & Keith S. Wilson read during our off-site party/reading “b e t w e e n s p a c e s” …
Gabby Triana (BR’s Hybrid Editor) speaks with poet Taneum Bambrick about her visceral second book Intimacies, Received — as well as what TV she’s watching. Enjoy! Read Gabby’s review of Intimacies, Received here. And find Taneum’s book from Copper Canyon here.
What are my values as a poet, as a person, and how am I living those values out in the way I usher this book through its journey? For me, it came down to community. This book is a way to be in community with more humans around big questions and little questions, and just being human together.