by Samantha Bolf | Mar 24, 2024 | Contest, Feature, News
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...
by Samantha Bolf | Mar 21, 2024 | Contributor Updates, Digital Archive, News
Announcing BWR’s 2024 Caine Prize for African Writing Nominees The BWR team is immensely proud to nominate these beautiful and wonderful works for The Caine Prize for African Writing! “The House on Ilanda Street” by Yvette Ndlovu (48.2, 2022) “Behind Our Walls”...
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...