We are thrilled to announce our 2026 literary contest winners! We received 722 submissions this round (!) and we loved reading your pieces. Congrats to all our finalists! The first place winner of each contest will receive $1,000. The second place winner of each contest will receive $500. Look out for their award-winning poems, essays, …
Please enjoy our conversation with BR’s Issue 92 cover artist, Ting Cheng, alongside our Managing Editor, Sam X Wong! You can learn more about “Serenity” here.
We are excited to share an interview between our Managing Editor Sam X Wong and poet Mai-Linh Hong, whose first book of poetry, Continental Drift, will be released from Trio House Press this July, 2026! Enjoy! And read Sam’s review here in Issue 92.
We are excited to offer a FREE & VIRTUAL hour of generative prompts– “Creaturely Writing: Taking Inspiration from the Animal” facilitated by K-Ming Chang!Please register in advance:http://bit.ly/4wo4FiC K-Ming Chang is a Lambda Literary Award winner, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, a Kundiman Fellow, and an O. Henry Prize Winner. She is the …
This spring, we’re excited to share new poems as part of our special folio on nourishment, Resilient Pieholes! abeo chimeka-tisdale’s “preybird” Leonardo Chung’s “The Garden at Late Season” and “House Rules”
We’re excited to partner up with the Salish Sea Poetry Festival during National Poetry Month to take part in their April poetry crawl! Find us at Stone’s Throw Brewery in Fairhaven on April 23rd at 5:30pm! We’ll be featuring readings by former contributors Rena Priest, Brittany Davis, Dayna Patterson, and Taylar Christianson as well our …
We’re excited to share our guest judges for our 2026 literary contests in poetry (Anastacia-Reneé), fiction (Kim Fu), and nonfiction (AJ Romriell). Our contests will open on February 1st. Please visit here to learn more about our judges.
Happy new year and welcome to the year of the fire horse! The editorial team at BR is thrilled to share with you Issue 91, which features stunning new writing and art.
Bellingham Review fiction staff reader Trin Encarnacion speaks with former BR contributor Matthew Torralba Andrews about his forthcoming award-winning chapbook How to Build a Bridge Across the Ocean, out in April 2026 from C&R Press. Read Trin’s review of How to Build a Bridge Across the Ocean here and read Matthew’s flash fiction in BR …
We received over 750 submissions to our literary contests this year in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction! The BR team loved reading your work and we were honored to send along the following finalists to our guest judges: Gabrielle Bates, Laura Chow Reeve, and Lilly Dancyger. Congrats to all our incredible winners (who will receive $1,000 …
