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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 Sijun Lou. Dennis...

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Aiden Heung

This Moment   (After Eavan Boland)by Aiden HeungAn 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...

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Week of the Catby 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...

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Catherine Kim

The Librariansby Catherine KimClick 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...

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Dure Ahmed

Me and a Wilted Roseby Dure AhmedI’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...

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Diannely Antigua

IN PORTLAND, IT RAINS, THE SUN COMES OUT, IT HAILS, THE SUN COMES OUTby Diannely AntiguaThen 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 next...

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Hannah Rego

In an Armchair Facing the Doorby Hannah RegoIn the waiting room of the ocean systems, I imagined. Our house, all rooms and no doors. In other words when you hug me with one of your hands snug on my hip I can hardly keep balance. Even with all these cities between us...

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Alkiviades Avarkiotis

Alkiviades AvarkiotisFeatured ArtistAlkiviades Avarkiotis is an architect and illustrator born in 1995. He studied Architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), where he completed his studies in 2019. During his studies, he lived for 5 months in...

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TR Brady

Living Thingby TR BradyI am so pink like a baby and want none of it. Yet, here I am, vanishing nothing. SK, stoking the fire. There is a bucket of pinecones on the porch. The crow on the awning tells me nothing. A breeze sweeps across the lawn, tricks me to bending...

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José Gutierrez

Resurrection Sicknessby José GutierrezTake that little trip   into the room. Pull back     the cloth: ghouls, rodents,  problems that don’t exist    exist outside of the room.  When my father dies    he says he wants his body  launched into space.    I haven’t asked...

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