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...
My Brother Speaks: “That’s the Way We’re Going to Survive” by Catina Bacote BWR 49.2 Nonfiction Contest Runner-Up Click here to read the full piece: “My Brother Speaks” by Catina Bacote Catina Bacote is a Jerome Hill Artist...
I Google My Assailant: A Found Essay with Commentary by Gwen Niekamp BWR 49.2 Nonfiction Contest Winner Click here to read “I Google My Assailant” by Gwen Niekamp Gwen Niekamp is a Ph.D. student in creative writing at Florida State University. She...
Mother Road by Lauren Hohle BWR 49.2 Fiction Contest Runner-Up Before she was my mother, my mother performed in a hallelujah band on an Alaskan cruise ship. She sang “Shine, Jesus Shine” and shook a tambourine and strummed a pock-marked Sears catalog guitar for three...