An Interview with Sarah María Medina – 2017 BWR Poetry Contest Winner
Sarah María Medina is a poet and a fiction/creative non-fiction writer from the American Northwest. Her writing has been published in Prelude, Poetry NW, Split This Rock, Raspa Literary Journal, and elsewhere. Her work is forthcoming in two anthologies: Nepantla: An...
2018 Contest: Interview with Flash Judge Jennifer S. Cheng
Jennifer S. Cheng’s work includes poetry, lyric essay, and image-text forms. Her debut book, HOUSE A (2016), was selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize, and her forthcoming hybrid collection, MOON: Letters, Maps, Poems (May 2018), was...
2017 Fiction Contest Runner-up: TABOO by Ruth Mukwana
“Taboo” immediately gives us a connection to the narrator: visceral and particular descriptions of a boy in a refugee camp. The story—the characters in their situation—never wavers in its assurance. The writer very economically sets up a series of very human...
From the Archives: Sonnet Infinitéismal n°3 / Matérial Girl n°8 by Aristilde Kirby
Sonnet Infinitéismal n°3 / Matérial Girl n°8 Aristilde Kirby from BWR 44.1 Aristilde Justine Kirby (27 | 4/11/1991) is a poet, Louise Montalescot’s daughter, amateur chansonnier, recovering overthinker, picaresque girl & paper champion. She has chapbooks...