IN THIS ISSUE

Featured Artist

Omer Mosseri

Contributors

Poetry

Alana Perez | Malia Maxwell | Monica Rico | Shannan Mann | Mickie Kennedy | Rick Hilles | Forest Brown | Mya Matteo Alixice | Sébastien Luc Butler | Lydia Golitz | Antonio Lopez

Prose

Amber Starks | Juliet Kahn | Kim Ramos | Rowena Leong Singer | Kristen Schwarz | Ren Wong | Ron MacLean | Helen Anderson | Crystal Odelle | Joy Young | Rivka Clifton | Andrew Romriell | Andrew Walker | Nadine Monem | Rebecca Stoner | Harry Huang | Romus Simpson | Emily Crossen | Lee Hodge | Luke Sutherland

Comics & Art

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Exclusive Online Feature: “Rabbit Moon, Lake Nighthorse” by BWR’s 2024 Creatures Contest Runner-Up, Elizabeth Bowling

RABBIT MOON, LAKE NIGHTHORSE   Glassine, the surface in which mountain and moon reflect. My lake. A soft one comes to the water’s edge, pad-pad pad... one-two three, a crooked waltz. I recognize the cadence, the long ears that shift toward any slight sound....

Exclusive Online Feature: “Yamabiko” by BWR’s 2024 Creatures Contest Winner, Amber Adams

YAMABIKO 山彦   For two months, my brother lived with the yamabiko. When initial search-and-rescue efforts turned up empty-handed, the yamabiko understood that my brother, buried, was going to be a guest on his mountain until the weather conditions changed. In his...

“new ways of imagining”: An Interview with Writer & Academic Intan Paramaditha

Intan Paramaditha is the author of The Wandering, a novel on the politics of travel in a choose-your-own adventure format, and a feminist horror story collection Apple and Knife. Both were translated from Indonesian to English by Stephen J. Epstein and published by...

“erring on the end of overflowing beauty”: A Discussion with Chigozie Obioma, Author of The Road to the Country

Chigozie Obioma was born in Akure, Nigeria. His two novels, The Fishermen (2015) and An Orchestra of Minorities (2019) were shortlisted for The Booker Prize, making him one of only two novelists to be shortlisted for all their works. They have won about a dozen prizes...

“tentatively eking their way towards hope”: An Interview with Kathryne David Gargano, Author of Pentimenti

Kathryne David Gargano (she/they) is a queer, Jewish writer interested in myth, retellings, art, and religion. They received their PhD in English & Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, where they served as the Managing Editor of Cream...