Maya Jewell Zeller completed her undergraduate degree in English and Education from Western Washington University. She taught high school English for three years before attending Eastern Washington University’s Inland Northwest Center for Writers, where she received an MFA in creative writing with a focus on poetry. Alongside her graduate studies, Zeller worked as assistant acquisitions …
In celebration of the just-released Rose Metal Press’ Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres, we have extended our deadline for Hybrid submissions to January 1st! The Bellingham Review defines a hybrid work as one which possesses more than one meaning-making mode (language, genre, art, anything visual, and/or surprise us!), in which each mode …
The editors of the Bellingham Review are pleased to announce the publication of Issue 71, which features an exquisite collection of new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from 17 writers, as well as photography from David Scherrer, whose Cape Flattery is our cover art. This, the second Fall issue published on our new website, marks the first issue released under the …
Although again printed by Write Bloody Publishing, and classic, powerhouse Gibson in nature, this newest collection includes an unexpected dose of heavy race-class social justice commentary—leaving readers floundering amidst layers of inspiring activism, sadness, and hope.
We are pleased to announce the winners of the Bellingham Review 2015 literary awards— the 49th Parallel Award for Poetry, the Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction, and the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction—selected by contest judges Bruce Beasley, Suzanne Paola Antonetta, and Kristiana Kahakauwila, respectively. The winners will each receive an award of $1,000 …
The Bellingham Review will celebrate the publication of Issue 70, which includes the winners of its annual literary contests, by co-hosting a literary double-header at the Honey Moon on Saturday, May 16. Join us as the evening kicks off at 7:00 pm with the Issue 70 release party, featuring readings of Issue 70’s contest winners and readings by graduate students enrolled in the English …
We asked visitors to Booth 1421 to participate in our exquisite corpse game! Visitors contributed one line to our evolving collaborative writing experiment. The one rule is that contributors can read only the line directly preceding theirs. Follow along at #bhreviewAWP and #AWP15, and on Twitter. Read the results from Thursday’s bookfair. Trying to snow this morning, though it’s …
Thank you to all of the wonderful AWPeeps who stopped by Booth 1421 to say hello and participate in our exquisite corpse game! Visitors contribute one line to our evolving collaborative writing experiment. The one rule is that contributors can read only the line directly preceding theirs. Follow along at #bhreviewAWP and #AWP15, and on Twitter. Here are …
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.
