The Bellingham Review is pleased to announce the publication of Issue 70, which includes the winners of its annual literary contests. The 2014 winners are Michael William Palmer, Jackleen Holton, and Tom Howard. This issue also marks the conclusion of editor-in-chief Brenda Miller’s leadership of the journal. Miller has edited the journal since 2001, guiding twenty-two issues to publication.
I put off reading Jeffrey Schultz’s What Ridiculous Things We Could Ask of Each Other for a good three months. I propped it up on my desk and looked at it a lot, though. I studied the 1915 line drawing by George Grosz on its cover, titled Riot of the Madmen. It’s unclear whether the madmen have descended upon the town or are its usual inmates: One dangles a terrified woman from a two-dimensional window; others charge through the streets with canes and hatchets.
I walked into the Henry on a sunny November afternoon expecting to spend a lot of time there. I was waiting for my companion to get out of a meeting, and that gave me an opportunity as rare as the sunny day: enough time to move through an installation slowly, enough time to read everything. Ann Hamilton’s the common S E N S E is incredibly well-suited to an attentive, curious reader. Words and the act of reading words form a kind of fulcrum for the show’s exploration of what it means to touch and what it means to be a human animal in a world of animals.
The Best American Essays 2014 hit the shelves earlier this month, and its annual “Notables” list included two essays published in Bellingham Review. John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of Pulphead, selected and introduced this year’s collection of essays. Notable essays were honored on Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s website. Among the Bellingham Review essays recognized as notables, Anittah …
It’s the day we look forward to all year: general submissions are officially open. We will accept general submissions through Submittable from Sept. 15 – Dec. 1. We are looking for “literature of palpable quality: poems, stories, and essays so beguiling they invite us to come closer, look deeper.” Submit your best work today on …
Bellingham Review is pleased to announce the judges for its 2015 literary contests. We offer three $1,000-dollar first-place prizes for fiction, poetry and nonfiction: Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction: Kristiana Kahakauwila, Judge 49th Parallel Award for Poetry: Bruce Beasley, Judge Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction: Susanne Paola Antonetta, Judge We will accept contest submissions from December 1, 2014, …
Bellingham Review is pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 Literary Contests! The Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction Final Judge: Shawn Wong First Place: Tom Howard, “Temple and Vine” Finalists: Noelle Catharine Allen, Amina Gautier, Patricia Schultheis, Britt Tisdale The 49th Parallel Award for Poetry Final Judge: Kathleen Flenniken First Place: Jackleen Holton, “Goldfish” Finalists: Leslie …
November 2013 Dear Reader, Autumn eases in on Bellingham once again. Fog settles densely each night as the sun sets over Puget Sound. Guttural groans of late-night southbound trains—I hear fog horns on the Pacific coast—sound through sea air, across Bellingham Bay. I walk to the office each morning, through still-dark quiet, over a smattering …
2014 Literary Contests Are OPEN! Our contest submission period is officially open and will run till March 15, 2014. Send us your best work! The 49th Parallel Award for Poetry, Final Judge: Kathleen Flenniken Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction, Final Judge: Joy Castro The Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction, Final Judge: Shawn Wong 1st Place: …
