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...
50.2 Feature: “Custodians” by 2023 Poetry Contest Winner, Rick Hilles Rick Hilles, a recipient of the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship, a Fulbright, and a Whiting Writers Award, is the author of BROTHER SALVAGE and A MAP OF THE LOST WORLD. This...
2024 “Creatures” Contest Shortlist Announcement We at BWR are immensely proud to announce the following writers & works selected for our official “Creatures” Contest shortlist! While we cherished every flash fiction & nonfiction...
“I wrote a weird, little guy essay”: Sophie Ezzell on Creative Nonfiction, Nostalgia, and Prioritizing Kindness in Art Sophie Ezzell is a queer Urban Appalachian writer. Her nonfiction has been nominated for multiple Pushcarts and has appeared or is...
50.2 Feature: “The Tick” by 2023 Flash Contest Winner, Emily Crossen Emily Crossen’s stories have appeared in Ecotone, New England Review, and Zoetrope: All-Story, where she received first prize in the 2022 Short Fiction Competition. She grew up in Pennsylvania...
50.2 Feature: “Forks of Buffalo” by 2023 Fiction Contest Winner, Ron MacLean Ron MacLean is the author of the story collections We Might as Well Light Something On Fire and Why the Long Face? and the novels Blue Winnetka Skies and Headlong, winner of the...
