Sunday School by Jamila Osman BWR 48.2 Flash Contest Winner A semi colon is the distance between two closely related independent clauses ; d = st ; A semicolon can be replaced by a conjunction and a comma. Click here to read “Sunday School” by...
Dream with Many Mounds of Grass by Hua Xi BWR 48.2 Poetry Contest Runner-Up In my childhood, a housemade entirely of grass. That was where the people learned to go on. I have a memory of my aunt in the doorway, arms full of grass. Filling a water jug full of...
How It Tastes by Star Su BWR 48.2 Fiction Contest Runner-Up All my life Mama wanted to make me brave. As a baby, I would cry murder if she dipped my toes in water or left me naked longer than a second. She didn’t bathe me for the first two months of my life—probably...
Love and Affection by Endria Richardson BWR 48.2 Nonfiction Contest Runner-Up I want a tattoo of Joan Armatrading, an outline of her face as it is on the cover of Joan Armatrading, the self-titled album she released in 1976. Her face is embraced by dark shadow, the...
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...