by james mckenna | Dec 2, 2022 | News
2022 Contest Results! BWR is pleased to announce the winners and runners-up of our 2022 Contests in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Flash. We are forever grateful to our inimitable judges: Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Diane Seuss, Kendra Allen, & Angie...
by Acie Clark | Sep 11, 2022 | News
This Moment (After Eavan Boland) by Aiden Heung An imaginary tree, green as spring. Children’s voices scud like birds out of a cage, hurrying into parchment clouds. The day ends before it begins to make sense. But still, I stand in front of my...
by Acie Clark | Sep 11, 2022 | News
Week of the Cat by Emily Yang / 楊佳諭 On Sundays, the day her week begins, Cat goes to the movies. She loves everything about it, the movies: the below-freezing temperatures, the plushness of the plum velvet seating—even the salty knock of unpopped corn kernels...
by Acie Clark | Sep 11, 2022 | News
The Librarians by Catherine Kim Click here to launch the PDF Reader for this piece. Catherine Kim is a Korean Canadian writer studying in the US. Her writing has appeared in Nat. Brut, Hypocrite Reader, the Nameless Woman anthology, the Transcendent series, and...
by Acie Clark | Sep 11, 2022 | News
Me and a Wilted Rose by Dure Ahmed I’m sorry, the city wrings me out by the time I make my way home. It’s the fucked up, inedible oranges and the long winds of the underfunded bus that make me look negligent. A little table in the park shouted “2 for $5” in dark...
by Acie Clark | Sep 11, 2022 | News
IN PORTLAND, IT RAINS, THE SUN COMES OUT, IT HAILS, THE SUN COMES OUT by Diannely Antigua Then it rains again. The ants find their wayto the kitchen counter where I spilled a little sugar, the spider by the nightstand is the second to last lover I’d want to wake up...
