2017 Poetry Contest Runner-up: Noah Baldino
“The Parade is a searing and brilliant poem examining both the timeliness and timelessness of its subject matter. Here, the speaker presents us with anti-trans violence, an act so normalized and “unremarkable” a brutal moment of agreement is made: the hushed...
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...
An Interview with Tess Allard, 2017 Fiction Contest Winner
Tess Allard is a writer, photographer and filmmaker living in Pittsburgh, PA, by way of Connecticut and New Mexico. She holds a BA in Film Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Pleiades, and...