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: …
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The Bellingham Review is pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 Literary Contests The Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction Final Judge: Dinah Lenney First Place: Karen McElmurray “Strange Tongues” Runner Up: Molly Beer “Under the Fifth Sun” Finalists: Molly Howes, Barbara Hurd, Kyle Boelte, Dorian Fox, Michael Palmer The 49th Parallel Award …
