Nominations for The Best Small Fiction

We’re immensely proud to nominate these extraordinary works for The Best Small Fiction. The work that comes through our pages are each extraordinary or amazing in a number of ways, and these particularly pieces resonated with us long after we’ve read them...

BWR Pushcart Nominations!

We at BWR are immensely proud to nominate these extraordinary works that appeared in our pages for the Pushcart Prize! Please join us in congratulating these writers!   Tyrese Coleman, “Speculum” from BWR issue 45.1, Fall/Winter 2018 Bertha Isabel...

2018 Contest Results!

BWR is pleased to announce the winners and runners-up of our 2018 Contests in Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Flash. We are forever grateful to our inimitable judges: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, Laura van den Berg, Kate Zambreno, and Jennifer S. Cheng. Kanika...
2017 Pushcart Nominations!

2017 Pushcart Nominations!

BWR is very pleased to announce our 2017 Pushcart Prize Nominations. While BWR cares deeply for all of the work we publish, we are immensely proud to recognize these extraordinary pieces that appeared in our 2017 pages: Anne Boyer, “Death and the Maiden”...
2017 Contest Results

2017 Contest Results

BWR is pleased to announce the winners and runners-up of our 2017 Contest in Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction, judged by Rachel McKibbens, Nicola Griffith, and Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. Each winner will receive $1,000 and publication in BWR 44.2 (forthcoming this...