2018 Contest Results!
BWR is pleased to announce the winners and runners-up of our 2018 Contests in Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Flash. We are forever grateful to our inimitable judges: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, Laura van den Berg, Kate Zambreno, and Jennifer S. Cheng. Kanika...
A Review of THE GROTESQUE CHILD by Kim Parko
THE GROTESQUE CHILD KIM PARKO 2016 Tarpaulin Sky 250 pages Review by RBrown “The new world was brought down by your quakes and leveled by your wind and sunk by your flood. Some of your children managed to survive and they floated below us and when they saw you in the...
Local Spotlight: Poems from MEND by Kwoya Fagin Maples
poems from MEND Kwoya Fagin Maples OAK, PINE, BASSWOOD Mt. Meigs, AL, Present Day in mt. meigs, fields of ugly cotton plants persist, their bolls colded over and forever done, afflicting the stalks like boils, a mutated offspring of their ancestors— which were so...