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!
Bellingham Review is thrilled to announce that two pieces published in our journal were chosen for this year’s Best of the Net 2024 anthology: Diamond Forde’s “Southern Fried Catfish” and Jamila Osman’s “Street View.” Ally Ang’s “Autoerotic Abecedarian” was also a finalist. Congrats!
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 …
