Reva Speaks a New Dialect by Shastri Akella BWR 2024 Fiction Contest Runner-up Reva doesn’t get a bridal welcome: she hears neither shehnai nor danka when her palanquin is lowered in front of her husband’s house, and when she steps out, in place of a group of women...
50.2 Feature: “Close to the Slaughterhouse” by 2023 Nonfiction Contest Winner, Nadine Monem Nadine Monem is an Egyptian-Canadian writer and editor. She graduated with an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from Birkbeck (University of London) in 2021, and...
INTERVIEW WITH A MASTHEAD: MEET THE 2024 BWR EDITORS Every year, the BWR masthead changes hands. To give our readers and contributors a chance to get to know us a little better, each new editorial team completes an annual interview for our website. We submit questions...
Annual Report; or, The Achievements of the Junior Colleague by Corey Van Landingham BWR 49.2 Poetry Contest Winner I restored the Capitol and the theatre of Pompey, both works at great expense without inscribing my own name on either. [….] I am pontifex maximus,...
from River of Love by Kami Enzie BWR 49.2 Flash Contest Runner-Up Like a morgue of oranges inside the lower crisper laid. Loose rinds bruised, and if not torn, still their battered segments will again never repaired be, not really. Waxy bodies deep welled yet near...
Occipital by Engram Wilkinson BWR 49.2 Flash Contest Winner He sat, experiencing the familiar itch in his brain along the edge of a lobe whose name he could never remember. A body is a simple disappointment. He used it to look at his co-workers, who looked at each...
