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.
Jane Wong (BR’s Editor-in-Chief) speaks to Henry Jackson-Spieker (our cover artist for Issue 85) about his path to installation art and glass, as well as his favorite snacks while making art! Check out Henry’s exhibition, “Interstitial Volume” at MAD Art Gallery in Seattle, which opens tomorrow, Thursday, February 9th (up until April 10th). Enjoy!
The editors of Bellingham Review are pleased to announce the publication of Issue 85 — our first full issue now that we’re totally online! We’re so excited. Enjoy & share it with your dear ones!
We are excited to announce our 2023 judges: Susan Nguyen (Poetry), Sasha LaPointe (Creative Nonfiction), and Corinne Manning (Fiction)! Susan Nguyen’s debut poetry collection Dear Diaspora (University of Nebraska Press 2021) won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, a New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, and was a finalist for the Julie Suk Award. Her poems …
During the month of November 2022, we will be waiving Submittable fees for BIPOC folxs — send us your poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid writing. We can’t wait to read!
Congrats to current and former contributor Troy Osaki on being a 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow! Read Troy’s new featured poem, “Martial Law Memorial.”
My lyric essay “Licked By Our World We Get Licked By Our World,” which you were kind enough to publish (Thanks again!), is the final essay in a series inspired by the four classical elements of Western antiquity: earth, wind, fire, and water. This is the water one. Previous essays revolve around occasions where I’ve eaten dirt, had a radon reduction tube installed in my house and set myself on fire. For this essay, I started my draft with times when I almost drowned.
Kristina Gorcheva-Newbery is a writer to watch out for. In her lyrical and harrowing debut story collection, What Isn’t Remembered, Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry provides her readers with the most valuable opportunity in fiction: to empathize with strangers on the page.
