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...

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...

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...

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...

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...