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“new ways of imagining”: An Interview with Writer & Academic Intan Paramaditha
Intan Paramaditha is the author of The Wandering, a novel on the politics of travel in a choose-your-own adventure format, and a feminist horror story collection Apple and Knife. Both were translated from Indonesian to English by Stephen J. Epstein and published by...
“erring on the end of overflowing beauty”: A Discussion with Chigozie Obioma, Author of The Road to the Country
Chigozie Obioma was born in Akure, Nigeria. His two novels, The Fishermen (2015) and An Orchestra of Minorities (2019) were shortlisted for The Booker Prize, making him one of only two novelists to be shortlisted for all their works. They have won about a dozen prizes...
“tentatively eking their way towards hope”: An Interview with Kathryne David Gargano, Author of Pentimenti
Kathryne David Gargano (she/they) is a queer, Jewish writer interested in myth, retellings, art, and religion. They received their PhD in English & Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, where they served as the Managing Editor of Cream...
“[A]t the intersection of many roads and seas”: An Interview with Rajiv Mohabir
Poet, memoirist, and translator, Rajiv Mohabir is the author of four books of poetry including Whale Aria (Four Way Books 2023) and Cutlish (Four Way Books 2021) which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and recipient of the Eric Hoffer Medal...
50.2 Feature: “Custodians” by 2023 Poetry Contest Winner, Rick Hilles
50.2 Feature: "Custodians" by 2023 Poetry Contest Winner, Rick Hilles Rick Hilles, a recipient of the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship, a Fulbright, and a Whiting Writers Award, is the author of BROTHER SALVAGE and A MAP OF THE LOST WORLD. This prizewinning...
2024 “Creatures” Contest Shortlist Announcement
We at BWR are immensely proud to announce the following writers & works selected for our official "Creatures" Contest shortlist! While we cherished every flash fiction & nonfiction combination thereof that we received for our first-ever themed contest, the...
“I wrote a weird, little guy essay”: Sophie Ezzell on Creative Nonfiction, Nostalgia, and Prioritizing Kindness in Art
Sophie Ezzell is a queer Urban Appalachian writer. Her nonfiction has been nominated for multiple Pushcarts and has appeared or is forthcoming in The Sun, River Teeth, Black Warrior Review, New Orleans Review, and others. Sophie received her MFA from Oklahoma State...
“Joy and Some Flailing and Very Low Stakes”: A Conversation with Donika Kelly
DONIKA KELLY is the author of The Renunciations, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf book award in poetry, and Bestiary, the winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award. A recipient of a fellowship from the...
50.2 Feature: “The Tick” by 2023 Flash Contest Winner, Emily Crossen
Emily Crossen's stories have appeared in Ecotone, New England Review, and Zoetrope: All-Story, where she received first prize in the 2022 Short Fiction Competition. She grew up in Pennsylvania and now lives in California with her family. Click on the excerpt to the...
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 2014 Indie Book Award for Best Mystery. MacLean’s fiction has appeared widely in magazines...