José Gutierrez

Resurrection Sickness by José Gutierrez Take that little trip   into the room. Pull back     the cloth: ghouls, rodents,  problems that don’t exist    exist outside of the room.  When my father dies    he says he wants his body  launched into space.    I haven’t asked...

2021 Contest Results!

2021 Contest Results!     BWR is pleased to announce the winners and runners-up of our 2021 Contests in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Flash. We are forever grateful to our inimitable judges: K-Ming Chang, Su Cho, Eduardo C. Corral, and J K Chukwu. Yvette...

Welcome to BWR 47.1

Welcome to BWR 47.1 Dear reader, Who knows when or how this issue has made its way to you, but we hope that you are doing okay and welcome you to BWR 47.1. Let us begin with what comes last in the issue: a first-ever for BWR, in a guest-edited section by one of our...

2020 Contest Results!

2020 Contest Results! BWR is pleased to announce the winners and runners-up of our 2020 Contests in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Flash. We are forever grateful to our inimitable judges: Lucy Corin, Mayukh Sen, Paul Tran, and C Pam Zhang.  Rachel Julia Engler was...

2020 Pushcart Nominations

2020 Pushcart Nominations The BWR team is immensely proud to nominate these beautiful and wonderful works for The Pushcart Prize!   “Composite Material // Spirit Willin” by Cherise Morris (46.2) “All Nail / No Knife” by syan jay (46.2)...

Best of the Net Nominations!

Best of the Net Nominations! The BWR team is immensely proud to nominate these beautiful and wonderful works for The Best of The Net! Fiction:”Soba” by K.B. Carle”Lucinda” by Uma Dwivedi”The Hole in the Wall” by Nima Omidi”We...